{"id":36395,"date":"2017-11-30T16:06:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/city-of-kigali-in-fight-against-malnutrition\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:06:40","slug":"city-of-kigali-in-fight-against-malnutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/city-of-kigali-in-fight-against-malnutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Kigali in fight against malnutrition drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In rural sectors of the city, figures of children from poor families with stunting growth continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p>The fight against malnutrition week was launched in Mageragere Sector of Nyarugenge District on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, the CoK vice-mayor in charge of social affairs, Patricia Muhongerwa, said they want to help people understand how to get children rid of malnutrition and stunting growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaunching this campaign was due to findings of the survey showing that stunting growth stands at 38% countrywide and 23% in Kigali City particularly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said under the campaign, people will be sensitized about easy and cheap techniques everyone can use to fight malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving kitchen gardens with different varieties of vegetables is the best tool to fight malnutrition. I urge every family to use this technique to ensure healthy life of their children,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Jackeline Karimunyana, a resident of Mageragere, said her child had suffered from malnutrition-related diseases but affirms that with the sensitization, the problem will be uprooted in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Under the campaign, the CoK in partnership with International Potato Centre, Mageragere residents were served with potato seedlings rich in Vitamin A&#038;B.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22960 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mlllntrtion.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22959 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/malntrition.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22958 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/malntr.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the latest Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) findings revealing that 23% of city children below five are facing stunting growth, the City of Kigali (CoK) has launched a campaign aimed at fighting malnutrition among children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36395"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36395"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}