NABOCADO sets to eliminate malnutrition among rural children in the Gorogo community

The fight to end malnutrition among rural children continues to be a collective effort by all and sundry who are concern about early childhood development in children.

In the Upper East Region, the quest to provide quality nutritious meals for children in rural areas continues to be a challenge for most parents and caregivers.

The Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocesan Development Organization (NABOCADO) as part of its contribution to ensuring that children in rural areas have properly well-balanced nutritional food, has provided a solar-powered borehole for all-year-round vegetable production in Gorogo Community in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region.

The initiative, dubbed “Food Security Project” seeks to provide nutritional foods to ensure that children in the rural communities do not lack nutritious meals to enhance their well-being and growth.

Human Development Coordinator of NABOCADO, Dr. Ayembilla Joseph, noted that the project does not only seek to eliminate malnutrition amongst rural children but to bring income to beneficiary women.
Commissioning the solar-powered borehole, Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocese Most Rev. Alfred Agyenta entreated the women to work together in peace and harmony.

Touching on the role of the Church, the Bishop noted that “When we go into a community especially the Human Development Wing of the Diocese (NABOCADO); we are not just a pure NGO, our style is only about meeting the human needs of the people, we also want to make sure that these people live to God-given image and dignity. That is, to be the best version of themselves who will intend to extend the love God gave them to their neighbors. So, if we have come this way and have done these projects all over the Diocese, it is to reach out to where the need is most.

”Stressing on Unity and the need for collective efforts in various communities, Bishop Agyenta asked the beneficiary women to at all times pray to God for mercy and to bind them together with one heart and mind.
He said, “I will like to appeal to the women who are the beneficiaries, I know when women work together sometimes there can be challenges and I wouldn’t want this occasion to be an occasion for quarrels, divisions, and acrimonies because you are about 80 people working in a very small place here, there can be quarrels and misunderstanding.

We will like to appeal to you that we are reaching in a sign of love and appreciation for what God has done for us. We want the same love to extend as you are working together.”

Expressing their appreciation, the beneficiary women pledged to use the project for their benefits and that of the community.

They stated that they will focus their attention on growing local vegetables to feed their children and earn income from it.

The project is funded by the Human Development Division of Navrongo- Bolgatanga Diocesan Development Organization and has secured about two and a half acres fenced garden for vegetable cultivation.

James Adombire, Upper East Region