VENUS SUTILA FOUNDATION
PS:46:1 Il y a un Dieu quelque part
Aragrariel Hands for hope
PROJECTS
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Food
Across the world, there are more than 795 million people who suffer from hunger, of which 154.8 million children are believed to have chronic or acute signs of malnutrition. The majority of people suffering from undernourishment are found in Asia and the Pacific, while more than 250 million people are in Africa. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, for example, nearly 20 million people are in need of emergency food assistance, according to the most recent UN assessments. The vast majority of them live in the eastern provinces - South Kivu, North Kivu, Tanganyika, Ituri - and in the central region of Kasai. The intensification of armed conflicts in some areas has worsened an already extremely fragile situation, forcing families to give up everything to flee the violence. Starting with their fields, which provided them with something to live on. The 5 million displaced people are the most vulnerable.
In order to prevent undernourishment and save lives all over the world, the FVS works with orphanages to help low-growing children, while centralizing the evangelization that is the object of its actions. In addition to this, the Venus Sutila Foundation provides daily support for the homeless, sick and prisoners, distributing consistent food and everything they need to gain better growth. We are also implementing measures to come to the aid of children and families at risk of malnutrition by transferring money, distributing food supplements and promoting breastfeeding.
As providing long-term support to small producers and marginalized people to help them cope with shocks and improve their productivity and access to markets is a key to ending world hunger, the FVS aims to invest in agricultural programs designed by itself to combat malnutrition. And one of the projects in preparation is support for small producers and marginalized women in agriculture, by way of helping them cope with. shocks and improve their productivity and access to markets. We advocate for a global transformation of food systems to make them more sustainable, resilient and just. At the same time, to meet the needs of people impacted by faults in global systems, we are helping vulnerable populations regain food self-sufficiency in many countries.
They depend on odd daily jobs and humanitarian assistance when available. But, the climax of all this is seeing the children suffering from acute malnutrition, and how they are forced to spend their day in the country's mineral dumps in order to collect copper. The conflicts taking place in the DRC affect the future prospects of children, who are the first victims, and they are forced to move to avoid violence against them. These forced displacements prevent children from getting proper nutrition, which makes them vulnerable to diseases such as kwashiorkor, anemia, beriberi, pellagra and scurvy. And these diseases can themselves cause diarrhea, rash, edema, and heart failure. Lack of access to a consistent diet not only leads to various forms of disease, but it is also the cause of a high rate of children walking around and begging in the streets, exposed to bad weather, accidents and even death. As a consequence of undernourishment, rising food prices and natural disasters have also caused many families to be unable to access sufficient quality and quantity of food, and this also affects physical and intellectual growth. of several children in the world.
