OMABA Cooking Center for Managing Malnourished and Stunting Children

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Bandung is the second-largest city in Indonesia, with a population of nearly 1,700,000 people. The Riung Bandung Public Health Service proposed an initiative to help malnourished and stunting children and reduce stunting rate and mortality. The initiative adopts strategies to ensure that the supplementary food is conveyed to the targeted children, and eaten up without compulsion by improving the taste and nutrition of the processed food. The food is delivered to target children with motorcycle taxis by women organization.

万隆是印度尼西亚的第二大城市，人口约为170万人。万隆公共卫生服务部门提出了一个倡议，意图解决儿童营养不良和发育障碍问题，降低发育障碍率和死亡率。该项目采取相关策略，不仅确保辅助食品运送到目标儿童群体，还通过提升加工食品的营养和口味，确保儿童自愿吃完这些辅助食品。妇女组织摩的将食品运送给目标儿童。

The initiative has directly improved the nutritional status of children under five in the pilot district. Malnourished children’s cases number decreased from 29 in 2013 to 0 in 2019. The initiative has also facilitated its members, most of whom are females, with food-producing skills and entrepreneurship passion. The initiative is innovative because it goes beyond the conventional programs of supplementary food distribution, avoiding the mismatch between supply and demand due to government limitations and agency loss in bureaucracy. By developing a community-based cooking center that empowered local communities in handling malnutrition, processing healthy food, and conveying the food to children, the initiative succeeded in reducing the prevalence rate of malnourished and stunted children.

在试点地区，该项目已经直接改善了五岁以下儿童的营养状况。儿童的营养不良病例数从2013年的29例降至2019年的0例。项目成员几乎都是女性，她们通过项目掌握了生产食品的技能，激发了创业热情。项目设立的社区烹饪中心给当地社区赋予了权力，让其处理营养不良问题、加工健康食品并将食品运送给儿童，成功地减少了儿童营养不良和发育障碍的患病率。