The project works in the poorest communities fighting malnutrition conditions ranging from Marasmus, to Kwashiorkor, to stunting and wasting. The project organisers hope to ensure that children in South Africa do not go to bed hungry.

The project runs workshops with groups of women, usually single, unemployed mothers with infants. In these weekly workshops, they deal with issues such as breast-feeding, the six food groups, oral rehydration therapy, HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis, worms and other primary health care issues. At these workshops, mothers receive formula milk to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/Aids, and for whatever other reason they are unable to breastfeed.

The workshops are held in areas where the project has kitchens. "The women can purchase low cost food for themselves and their children there each day. Should the women be so desperate that they cannot afford even the 60c which is required for a plate of food, then the health workers provide them with coupons which they can exchange for food at the kitchen."

"Through these workshops which are run in five different areas, an average of 200 women per week are reached. Some of them stay in the workshops for up to a year, learning all that they can about health and nutrition. They take the information back into their communities, and in turn, their neighbourhoods are enriched by this knowledge."

Children, Health, Nutrition, HIV/AIDS

WARMTH project aims to

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