Scott Ickes has been observing how the caretakers prepare the food they receive from BBB for their children. Some cook it with bananas and tomatoes over the fire. Others boil it into as a porridge.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
BBB Production
BBB Project produces two products, a locally made soybean powder and a peanut butter paste with dried moringa leaves. 4 production teams use the Omega VI grinders they were given by World Harvest Mission. Stephanie Jilcott trained them in their use. Currently, the teams roast the peanuts and then grind them with the dried moringa in the grinder turning it into a paste. The soybeans are roasted. Then they are prepounded by hand before they pass through the grinder which turns them into a fine powder.
Basiime Godfry, on behalf of BundiNutrition, buys the products from the production teams and brings them to the health centers for weekly distribution to moderately malnourished children.
Basiime Godfry, on behalf of BundiNutrition, buys the products from the production teams and brings them to the health centers for weekly distribution to moderately malnourished children.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
BBB Research
Meet Scott Ickes. He’s back in Bundibugyo for a few weeks working on his dissertation for his Ph.D. in Nutrition. He’s been studying the BBB Project and how the locally made Ready-to-Use-Supplementary-Food (RUSF) that is being produced here is affecting the community. He’s been interviewing Health Center Staff who distribute the Peanut Butter Paste and Soybean flour. The production teams who create the product and the moms who feed it to their children are also speaking up on how it is being used. 
Scott is finishing up 78 dietary recalls, which ask mothers “What did your child eat yesterday?” This helps to answer the question of how the products we give to the moderately malnourished children fit into their total diet. Random home visits to observe how the food is prepared is also part of the study. He’s had the help of Biihwa, Annette, Basiime, Baguma Charles and Katie Morris with the interviews and back translations.
Tomorrow he will take samples of the products to Makerere University and have them tested for their nutrient content.
He has gathered quite a bit of data. After being able to analyze it, he hopes to share his insights with BundiNutrition and the production teams as to how we might make the most of the project.
BBB: Byokuliya Bisemeye mu Bantu, Good Food for People
Scott is finishing up 78 dietary recalls, which ask mothers “What did your child eat yesterday?” This helps to answer the question of how the products we give to the moderately malnourished children fit into their total diet. Random home visits to observe how the food is prepared is also part of the study. He’s had the help of Biihwa, Annette, Basiime, Baguma Charles and Katie Morris with the interviews and back translations.
Tomorrow he will take samples of the products to Makerere University and have them tested for their nutrient content.
He has gathered quite a bit of data. After being able to analyze it, he hopes to share his insights with BundiNutrition and the production teams as to how we might make the most of the project.
BBB: Byokuliya Bisemeye mu Bantu, Good Food for People
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