KWADWESI
KWADWESI
PHASE 2
Operation Hunger provides immediate food relief to fight malnutrition. Their approach varies, including soup kitchens, household distributions, and food parcels. While relief is not a solution, it’s a crucial short-term step towards sustainability.
Current Phase: 2
Achieved Statuses: Ongoing Broad-based Feeding, Nutrition Education, Health and Nutrition Awareness Campaigns, Ongoing Nutrition Surveillance and Anthropometric Surveys Assessments, Biodiverse Permaculture Garden, Categorised additional nutrition ad-hoc services for expectant and nursing mothers, adolescents and older people according to nutritional requirements, linked the sick beneficiaries with health systems; children who’s malnutrition status had deteriorated as a result of environmental and situational determinants were redirected to the relevant partners for additional assistance, Environmental Campaigns, Infection Prevention.Â
IMPACT
Direct Beneficiaries
Inirect Beneficiaries
Food Security in the area
KwaDwesi is next to Kleinskool and is located in Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Forming part of the Red Location housing completed after the realisation that there was a growth in the urban black population in apartheid South Africa, this settlement is undocumented and not represented.Â
Burdened by chronic and hidden hunger
COVID-19-related measures are likely to continue to affect households through the prohibition of movements – as 65% of the respondents reported these restrictions as challenging. The continued increase in food prices is likely to increase the levels of vulnerability among households in the Metro, especially among the 49% of the households that reported lack of money to purchase food and non-food items. Over-reliance on purchased foods with rising food prices is likely to diminish household purchasing power.Â
Current Stats
IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis | Current Population | Projected Population | Key Drivers |
None | 814168 | 550202 | Lived Poverty, Unemployment |
Stressed | 217111 | 330121 | Instability of Food Access |
Crisis | 54278 | 165060 | Food Affordability |
Emergency | 0 | 55020 | Loss of Income |
Catastrophe | 0 | 0 | Covid-19, Informal Environment, Marginal/Imbalanced Food Systems |
  Current Stats
IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis | Current Population |
None | 814168 |
Stressed | 217111 |
Crisis | 54278 |
Emergency | 0 |
Catastrophe | 0 |
Projected Population | Key Drivers |
550202 | Lived Poverty, Unemployment |
330121 | Instability of Food Access |
165060 | Food Affordability |
55020 | Loss of Income |
0 | Covid-19 Impact |
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There are so many ways in which you can get involved to help contribute to fighting malnutrition in this beautiful country. We look forward to hearing from you.