Emergency Nutrition Intervention for Children Under-5, Adolescent, Pregnant and Lactating Women (ENICAPLW)
As on 18th May of 2019 in over 900000 Rohingya refugees, including 33956 registered refugees are living in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district.1 When Rohingya people come to Bangladesh, majority of them were women and children suffering from hunger and malnutrition. Considering this, on September 2017 SARPV Started implementing this programme to eradicate the widespread malnutrition of 6-59 month children according to the first framework of international protocol and by the assistance of UNICEF and their guidance through structured OTPs and BFSCs.
The mission of this project is to provide treatment to 6-59 months aged SAM (Severe Acute Malnourished) children, develop the nutritional status of both women and children along with adolescents by providing basic nutrition education and supplements to the pregnant and lactating women, enhance awareness among them and solve the complications regarding breastfeeding through IYCF counseling.
The second phase of the project was started from November, 2018 after successful completion of the first phase. Now, the third quarter of the Second phase is running. At present, SARPV is providing emergency nutrition services in 7 camps of Teknaf and Ukhiya upazila through 8 Out-patient Therapeutic Program (OTP) centers and 6 Mother Baby Areas (MBA) / Breast Feeding Support Centers (BFSCs) which are providing services to 24, 760 children under-5 including 5,000 SAM children, 5,720 pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) and 5,760 adolescent girls.
