Sanku has installed a dosifier, provided premix, as well as technical fortification training to Rwanda’s Ihangane Project, a nonprofit healthcare organization working in Rwanda since 2008 to improve the health status of HIV+ adults and children. Their work has evolved into a surprisingly simple, highly effective model for delivering health care to vulnerable people anywhere.
The Ihangane Project has recently opened a new Fortified Porridge Production Facility. The opening of this facility is a major step forward on two fronts:
- the food security of local families and children, and
- the long-term economic sustainability of their flagship program: Nutrition for HIV-Exposed Infants Clinical Program (NHI)
Currently, the Project’s mill is producing 2,000 kilograms per month of fortified porridge to distribute to HIV+ mothers and their young children through the NHI Clinical Program. With the use of the Sanku Dosifier, the project is able to produce a nutritious flour mixture of maize and soya fortified with key vitamins and minerals.
The new porridge production facility is working to both directly improve everyone’s health status through better nutrition, and to empower the community to create a healthier future for their children. By consuming this fortified porridge, infant malnutrition in the local community will decrease, and thus drastically reducing the likelihood that the HIV exposed infants will die.