NUTRITION SUPPORT

The project aims to strengthen the capacity of child-headed families by providing for emergency relief, economic, psychosocial support. The emergency relief will mitigate threats to their basic survival and regular monitoring will help mitigate threats to their security, preventing exploitation and abuse. The Salem District People Service Society’s home-based care and social workers will help these children get access to essential services including education, health care, birth registration and social grants, but food nutrition is the main burden for their life survival. The disease is having an escalating impact on food security and nutrition. When HIV strikes a household and people become ill, the family’s ability to work, to feed itself and to provide adequate care is immediately affected. As the disease progresses in individuals, the resources of HIV/AIDS-affected families are often drained as they sell assets to pay for food and medical expenses.