This page describes our progress on this award. The most recent information is at the top of the page. For background scroll down to the first post.
2013 February
After a discsusion with the Pamoza board, it was decided that implementation of this project should wait until May 2013. The award was granted mid way through 2012, but the funds arrived near the end of the year and the rains were already well underway – more importantly, as it doesn’t matter what day or minute it is, you can always start better nutrition – Pamoza also had a very tight schedule of events and we were afraid the school would become overloaded, potenially setting them up for failure.
Initial discussions and preparation are taking place, then there will be a board meeting in May and plans should roll out from there.
2012 – granted the award
The American Overseas Dietetic Association awarded Annie Mtika and me (Stacia) with a 3,000 USD award as part of their International Project competition. We created a proposal describing how we will support the development of Sustainable nutrition approaches at a primary school – and, now we get to do it! We are both nutritionists but we’ve switch countries – Annie lives in my country (USA) and I live in her country (Malawi). With the award, we are going to help a school in Annie’s home community over the next 2 years to improve their nutrition. The money will be used to open the school communities eyes to the available solutions through facilitated exchange visits, to bring in facilitators who are already successful to help them understand how they can better use their own resources.