Kissito has received a grant from Plan International to work under the Emergency Nutrition Coordination Unit (sector of Ethiopian federal government) on a Support for Community Management of Acute Malnutrition Project in Southern Ethiopia. Kissito’s purpose is to strengthen the government response to acute malnutrition in this area. The project is benefitting over 3,500 children under five years old and almost 1,000 pregnant and lactating women (those who have been lactating one year or less). In KHI’s initial assessment, 21.3 percent of children under five in this area were found to be suffering from moderate or severe acute malnutrition.

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