Plan Malawi

Food security and malnutrition in Malawi
We provide food aid when needed, whilst working on longer term projects to address the issue of food security. We monitor distribution to ensure that food does not go missing, and give directly to women and children to help ensure it goes into homes and not the market-place.

Longer term: part of our strategy is to introduce new high-yield crops such as soya beans, fruit and vegetables as well as high yielding varieties of maize and peanuts. We are introducing water conservation techniques to help shorten the hunger season. We have also encouraged families to try raising animals, and brought in grain mills and seed presses to help families earn a cash income.

Plan works in very poor districts of Malawi, in Lilongwe, Ksununga and Mzimba, where more than half the children have stunted growth as a result of malnutrition.

About children's lives in Malawi

For information about chidren's lives in Malawi, including extensive indicators, please see UNICEF's report "The State of the World's Children 2008: Child Survival" (4.3mb | 164 pages)
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