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Teaching about Healthy Food
Lebanon & Palestine

As a result of years of instability and conflict, community health issues are minimally addressed in Gaza. Poverty has increased and 90% of Gaza’s population depends on food aid. Women and children in poor Lebanese communities and Palestinian refugee camps are the first to suffer from inadequate access to food. An alarming number of children in Gaza, between the ages of six months to five years, suffer from malnutrition which lowers resistance to illness and makes them more likely to die from common ailments such as diarrhea and respiratory infections.

The AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID (ANERA)’s Creative Health Campaign and Milk for Preschoolers (MfP) are designed to teach poor mothers and children about how to stay healthy. They are educated in nutrition, hygiene, and general health care; children receive nutritious milk specialized for their needs. ANERA is providing daily milk and biscuits to 25,200 preschoolers. Children also receive psychological support to help them cope with living under adverse circumstances. More than seventy non-profit organizations throughout Lebanon participate in this program reaching several thousand mothers and children.

Children receive fortified milk and biscuits while
at preschool.

$115 - Milk and biscuits for a child for one year
$14 - Milk and biscuits for a child for one month

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