HeFCi specific objectives
- Ensure that consumers understand the importance of healthy and adequate food consumption by knowing the source of what they eat (production system used- organic or inorganic) and the type of processing methods they undergo.
- Assist the consumer to identify some of the functional foods (understanding the medicinal foods, especially fruits and leafy vegetables) that are becoming extinct and encourage planting and replanting.
- Design and implement food production diversification and value addition that will address health, social and economic challenges(targeting farmers, women, youths, prisoners in agriculture) and market outlets
- Facilitate extension education conditions for the targeted vulnerable groups (school children, youths, women, pregnant and breast feeding mothers, diabetic and HIV/AIDS patients) on community diet remedy.
- Improve health and livelihoods of the rural dwellers through promotion of organic/ecological friendly agriculture among farming communities.
- Promote gender equity in access to food.
Strategies
- Conduct workshops to promote required information/develop capacity of consumers and vulnerable groups on resource management, using extension education strategies.
- Conduct training workshops for farmers, processors and those who prepare school meals.
- Develop market outlets for organic products.
- Network with government agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Target Groups
- School children and those who prepare school meals.
- Youths
- Farmer’s group
- Women
- Elderly
- Vulnerable groups (HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Hypertensive and diabetic patients etc.)
- Prisoners
Nature of HeFCi
- Charity/Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
- Non-partisan
- Contributing towards healthy and adequate food consumption for good health and long life
- Contribute to resource oriented development
- Working on community development eco-friendly/organic agricultural diversification and value addition
- Work as coordinator and facilitator of related programmes
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