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AID cooperative agreement no. FAO-0158-A-00-3044-00 to Freedom from Hunger (FFH) in support of its proposal, as amended, entitled `Credit with education for women" to help the vulnerable poor to manage the immediate causes of chronic hunger and malnutrition through the creation of income and education opportunities for the poor of developing nations
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AID cooperative agreement no. FAO-0158-A-00-3044-00 to Freedom from Hunger (FFH) in support of its proposal, as amended, entitled `Credit with education for women" to help the vulnerable poor to manage the immediate causes of chronic hunger and malnutrition through the creation of income and education opportunities for the poor of developing nations
Matching grant is provided to Freedom from Hunger (FFH) for a program of credit and education to motivate large numbers of poor rural women in seven developing countries to change their behavior to: earn and use income to gain access to an adequate quality and quantity of food for themselves and their families, especially their younger children; breastfeed their infants for the first 6 months; practice contraception; manage diarrheal episodes; and seek the full immunization series locally available.
1993
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Abstract
FFH will use a unique combination of (1) poverty lending (small-scale productive lending to the very poor) and (2) nonformal adult education for maternal/child health and nutrition; a new emphasis family planning and community-based distribution of contraceptive supplies will be incorporated into the educational program. Project activities will be conducted in the following countries: Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Mali, Nigeria, and Togo.
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