Module 13 internship
Hello! My name is Zipporah Gloria Kamaloni and i welcome you to my blog. I am a student doing a bachelors degree in Global Nutrition and Health specialising in Public Health Nutrition and Food Policy. This blog will be about my second internship at the Rainbow Project, under the Pope John 23rd Association. The project is a large-scale model of care that caters for the needs of orphans and vulnerable children and has been in operation since 1998 in Ndola District, Copperbelt province, Zambia. It runs a community-based programme that operates through the Supplementary Feeding Programmes (SFPs) which is the nutritional component of the care mentioned above. This is done using High Energy Protein Supplement (HEPS) and other food products during a three month rehabilitation programme. Other activities in the SFP nutrition programme include anthropometric measurements and recording, cooking demonstrations, meals together, home visitation and health talks on various nutrition and health topics like hygiene, HIV/ AIDS. The SFPs are run by local partner organisations and coordinated by professional figures working in cooperation with District medical offices. In addition, it works hand in hand with Arthur Davison Children Hospital; the only children's hospital in Zambia (also based in Ndola) in rehabilitating children that are discharged from the hospital and are in need of supplementary feeds. The aim of the SFPs is to treat moderate Acute malnutrition without complications thereby preventing severe acute malnutrition. It also gives long-term sustenance to recovery from SAM after out-patient or in-patient treatment. So for the next 3 months i will share my experiences with the project and will later on link them to my bachelor thesis.
