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1. Provide nutritious food: Ensure children have access to a balanced diet at schools and preschools. 2. Monitor growth: Regularly measure children's height and weight to track their physical health, not just for those under five. 3. Minimize food waste: Promote practices that reduce food wastage at home and in schools. 4. Encourage physical activity: Motivate children to exercise regularly to maintain good health and fitness. 5. Offer proper nutrition and care: Combine nutritious food with emotional support and care for overall well-being.

Children want their parents to know the importance of family planning as they experience the problem in the families, especially of many children. Their income could not accommodate the expenses and they could not adequately provide for their children. Another issue that they’ve raised is early marriage. Child marriages should be prevented until individuals are mature enough to support themselves and their future children. Financial management is the skill to provide for a family with low income. Family planning is important. They also request to raise awareness on reproductive health and th... Read moree importance of nutrition to children and young people, vendors from street & school and their parents. The communities needs to engage in activities like Nutrition Week, highlighting balanced nutrition and low-cost cooking for better health. Educational sessions should cover adolescent reproductive health, family planning, and abortion prevention, alongside life skills, leadership, and peer education on child marriage. Promote knowledge on gender awareness, LGBTQ+ support, drug awareness (the consequences of drug use), and safe internet use. The nutrition initiatives should be extended to schools to advocate for comprehensive knowledge on the link between nutrition and seasonal diseases, and to empower adolescents and teachers. Read less

Through drawings, the children and young people described some urgent recommendations to solve the problems of child malnutrition: - Improve medical assistance so that people can include healthy foods in their diet that contain elements such as iron, calcium, vitamins, etc. - Improve access to drinking water, as many families still consume water from wells, which is not very healthy. - Provide nutrition specialists to be closer to the community to prevent health problems caused by poor nutrition. - Develop lectures on how to have good nutrition. - Support the agricultural sector and encourage ... Read morethe cultivation of nutrient-rich agricultural products (soybeans, beans, vegetables, etc.). - Promote family poultry farming to reduce problems caused by poor nutrition. - Invest in proper food preservation to avoid diarrheal diseases and others. - Create social actions within the community to provide nutritious food items. - Implement school meals, as many of us do not have the means to bring a snack for the intermediate hour, which in some way affects good school performance. Read less

• Nutrition education: regular school and community workshops on nutrition and balanced diet • Government, the community and development partners to support school feeding programs • Promotion of alternative foods and backyard gardens • Climate resilient farming practices • Collaborative action: foster partnerships between schools, local leaders, NGOs and government to address nutrition and climate change issues • Government should include nutrition education in the financial package that it offers to most vulnerable households. • Government must consider provision of food supple... Read morements to the most vulnerable households instead of cash Read less

Access to good drinking water is necessary to promote good nutrition The need to create employment/ alternative livelihood and life skills for parents School feeding program should be brought back to the school since it's no longer available Planting of more tress to resolve climate change and deforestation. Stop the practice of bush burning and charcoal production which depletes farmlands, and leaves lands less fertile Education of communities on food taboos and good nutrition is important. Practices of mixed farming (crops & livestock) should be promoted Stop illegal mining that destroys... Read more water bodies and farmlands. Government should scale up school feeding programs to all schools especially those in rural areas. Read less

- provision of folic acid as a supplement to adolescent girls to replenish blood loss from menstruation - support the education of children, parents and caregivers on good nutrition -support parents by providing farm inputs and variety of crops and vegetables, irrigation etc -parents to feed children with three meals a day -school feeding program should provide enough quantity of food (less food is served) and improve quality. fruits should be added to meals -school feeding should be extended to Junior High School =parents are encouraged to give children meat and fish government should reduce ... Read moretaxes on food to make it affordable Read less

In terms of recommendations, the children made the following: The government should do more to tackle malnutrition in remote villages and hard-to-reach areas. It must ensure that every neighbourhood or village has a large vegetable garden. The government, parents, NGOs and World Vision must work together to ensure good nutrition. The government must focus on agriculture by giving equipment to farmers and creating companies to process agricultural products. Parents must take action to ensure that their children have a good diet. They can become shareholders in NGOs. Build water towers to meet t... Read morehe community's water needs, get women involved in gardening, give vitamin supplements to children, work with NGOs, especially World Vision, and dig wells for animals. To improve children's diet, the government must put in place food policies that promote access to nutritious food and support local agriculture. Raise awareness in all communities of the importance of good nutrition Parents should be encouraged to adopt healthy eating practices for their children. Read less