Visiting Rwanda and sharing my story with you has been an unbelievable experience. I have told you the key points, the things that have affected me most and th
I’ve also seen first hand how Save the Children projects are already helping to turn things around.
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt from the trip it’s that the people of Rwanda want to change things, they just need to be shown how. Key to achieving it is education. Once families are taught what sorts of foods are best to feed their children and once they know the best way to grow their own then things will start to change.
Kitchen Garden projects are making such a difference.
The President of the group I visited, Vestine, donated her land to the project. In a space of 35 x 15m members of surrounding villages are taught to grow their own crops; carrots, cabbage, onion, sweet potato, beetroot and green leaves.
All aspects of growing are taught including different models which can be used in the differing spaces that each person has at home. Continue reading
I have held back from sharing this story for a couple of days, I haven’t been ready to tell it until now.
Meet Nsengiyumva he is 3 years old.
When I arrived on the children’s ward at the Butaro District Hospital it was medicine time for Nsengiyumva, he didn’t want to have it, he was refusing to swallow. Continue reading
on Wednesday 15th February 2012
Thanks to the help of tireless supporters, 2011 saw Save the Children make breakthroughs that will change the lives of millions of children.
This year the focus is on tackling the hidden crisis of global childhood malnutrition and hunger. 300 children die every hour simply because they don’t have the right food to eat, which in a world with enough food for everyone is unacceptable. You’ve read about it here, you’re seeing what I’ve seen first hand in Rwanda.
Here’s a way for you all to get involved in the No Child Born to Die push to end the hidden hunger…
Time for The Pink Whisk Challenge…and this one is dedicated to Save the Children and the Hidden Hunger campaign. It’s a great way for us to help spread the word.
I would love for you to donate a recipe. The theme for the challenge is ‘Family Favourites’, recipes you enjoy making and that you love to share, there’s nothing more to it than that – it doesn’t even have to be baking (I hope you realise how much that hurt me to write!)
All recipes gathered for the challenge will be collated and published in a Save the Children e-book which will be sold to raise awareness and funds for the campaign. Continue reading
Based at the Burare District Health Centre community health workers walk out across the countryside to visit families with children that have been identified by the clinic as malnourished. They provide them with all important supplementation and support. We went with them to meet two ladies whose children both suffer severely in different ways from malnutrition.
Today has been a super busy day taking in the work of Save the Children projects.
First up was a visit to the newly built health centre it offers a maternity unit, childrens clinic and a hospitalisation wing.
This is a fantastic treatment centre and a real asset to the community – take a look at the old centre, it has tarpaulin sides. Can you imagine your newborn baby staying here? Continue reading
Arrived safely in Rwanda with the team. I’m going to admit I’m a bit shell shocked – travelling so far on my own is in itself a big milestone for me let alone suddenly finding myself immersed in an African city. Based in the capital of Kigali we’ve spent the day doing some country briefings and have learnt some shocking stats gathered for the Life Free From Hunger campaign.
Great improvements in Rwanda have been made in child mortality with the introduction of successful childhood vaccination programmes and increasing numbers of children sleeping under mosquito nets and is really great news to hear. Sadly though nearly 50% of Rwandan kids are still suffering from chronic malnutrition – the hidden hunger. It’s clearly
A Valentines treat that’s definitely got some wow factor!
There’s only one thing Mr C. loves more than cake and that’s ice cream so I’ve rustled up these Chocolate Valentines hearts especially. The cake and icecream is simple to do, the flaming strawberry bit is a bit faffy so think about having a practice ‘flaming strawberry’ run in advance. There’s lots of tips for this bit at the end of the post. I am sure you will appreciate that I got myself well and truly sozzled for you folks on ‘Ginberries’ in the name of research for this idea!
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and so I am proud to announce that I am supporting Save the Children in the second part of their No Child Born to Die campaign which aims to stop the millions of childhood deaths which occur from easily preventable diseases throughout the world. The focus is on the ‘hidden hunger crisis’ – tackling childhood malnutrition which is responsible for a third of deaths in children under the age of five.
This Saturday I will be travelling to Rwanda with Jay Rayner, the Observer’s restaurant reviewer and the food presenter for the One Show, and a team to visit Save the Children projects on a week long trip. We’ll be meeting Rwandan families and will see first-hand the effects and treatment of malnutrition, the hidden hunger.
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