아프카니스탄에서 온 소식
아프카니스탄에서 펼쳐지고 있는 콩 사역이 현지와 UN에서 좋은 평가를 받고 있다는소식입니다.
그곳에서 콩 사역을 펼치고 있는 강 나오미 ( 최정희 ) 선교사 와 강 사무엘 선교사를 위한 기도를 부탁합니다.
콩 전문가 재미교포 권 스티븐씨의 협력과, 카나다 뱅쿠버 한인 그레이스교회의 후원으로,
나오미선교사와 사무엘 선교사가 진행하는 콩 사역이 성공적으로 진행되어 좋은 평가를 받고 있습니다.
영양실조로 인한 산모와 어린이의 건강을 지키고, 영양 결핍에 의한 실명을 예방하는데 큰 역할을 하고 있습니다.
씨앗의 콩을 나누어주고, 재배기술을 가르치고, 수매를 해주고, 콩 우유를 만드는 공장을 설립하여 콩 우유를 생산해,
그 우유를 꼭 필요한 사람들에게 공급하여, 빈곤과 질병을 예방하는 사역을 감당하고 있습니다.
선교사역으로 아프카니스탄의 정부와 협력사업으로 진행되고 있으며, 현지 주민, 언론, 정부, 유엔까지도
반응이 너무도 좋은 상태입니다.
계속 사업을 확장해 달라는 요청이 있어, 추가 공장을 2곳을 확장할 계획을 세우고 있습니다.
주미 대사관을 통해 후원교회에 감사의 편지까지 보내와 감사를 표하고 있는 상태입니다.
Greetings from Kabul, Afghanistan.
Today I would like to share with you that our soy milk feeding program was recognized by being featured in IRIN, a UN news agency yesterday. We received many encouraging comments from the readers in Kabul and else where, including Afghanistan Ambassador in USA. Please feel free to forward to your friends.
As you may find, the story was very positive about the health benefits of soy milk.
This recognition has not been possible if it were no support from your church. Using this opportunity, therefore, I would like to express my most sincere thanks to you and your congregation.
With your prayer and support, we will continue strong with this soy milk feeding physically save themselves through this soy milk program. Two more soy milk processing facilities will be opened this November. One in north part of Kabul City, the other in Badakshan where maternal and infant mortality rates are the highest in the world.
Blessings to you and your congregations.
File: Irin News. pdf
AFGHANISTAN: Soya beans to stave off malnutrition?
A 2-month-old malnourished baby girl at Faizabad Hospital, northeastern Badakhshan Province. KABUL, 28 August 2008 (IRIN) - Fatema takes her four-year-old daughter, Nafeesa, to a free soya-milk distribution centre in Herat city, western Afghanistan, three times a week in a bid to protect her against malnutrition. [Listen to the audio report in Dari and Pashto]Three months ago medical experts told Fatema about protein deficiency in Nafeesa's body and warned that unless the child was well fed she would be malnourished. "I told doctors about our poverty and that we could not provide good food and fruits for my daughter," said Fatema whose husband, Najibullah, earns a modest income from his bicycle repair shop. "Doctors told me about this soya-milk distribution centre for pregnant women and children," she said.The free soya-milk distribution centre is jointly run by the department of women's affairs and a non-governmental organisation, and is funded by a Canadian donor."My daughter's health has improved since I brought her to this centre and she has stopped complaining about bone pain," Fatema told IRIN.
Soya-bean is promoted to tackle malnourishment among women and children
High infant mortalityAfghanistan has an infant mortality ratio of 165 deaths per 1,000 live births. One in four children dies before reaching the age of five, mostly due to acute malnutrition and preventable diseases, the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, reported."Among under-five children, 7 percent suffer from acute malnutrition and 54 percent are chronically malnourished. The nutrition figures could be higher in the areas affected by conflict and drought, where access is denied and humanitarian services are difficult to deliver," says UNICEF's Humanitarian Action Report 2008.Soya bean products (milk, flour and beans) are also highly recommended by medical experts for pregnant and lactating women who do not have access to adequate food and nutrition.
Afghanistan is only second to Sierra Leone in terms of high maternal mortality rates, with at least 1,600 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to UNICEF. Most pregnant and lactating women die due to lack of access to adequate food and nutrition, health experts say.
Protein-richThe soya-bean is a species of legume and considered by nutritionists to be a rich source of amino acids and protein essential for the human body. Afghanistan's climate and soil are suitable for the cultivation of soya beans, particularly in the south, east and southwest which have hot summers.A USA-based nutrition expert, Steven Kwon, introduced soya beans to Afghan farmers for the first time in 2003 through his small organization - Nutrition &Education International (NEI) - to help tackle protein deficiency and malnutrition among children and women.The NEI distributed two tones of soya seed in 2005 which produced 10 tones of soya beans, and over the years the number of farmers has risen to over 4,000 and production has soared to 2,000 tones in 2007, the NEI said."If Afghanistan produces 300,000 tones of soya beans annually it will be able to meet the protein requirements of 30 million people and will be able to eradicate malnutrition," Kwon told IRIN on 28 August. SetbackOne third of the 60 tones of soya seed which the NEI had imported from the USA for distribution to Afghan farmers could not be used as seed because the consignments had been held for too long in the hot weather at customs inside Afghanistan, Kwoon said. "We have only distributed 20 tones of seed this year and as a result production levels will be lower than 2007," said Kwon adding that the country would still produce about 1,000 tones of soya beans. The NEI said it was working with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock to end the country's reliance on soya seed imports by establishing a domestic seed production capacity. ad/ar/cb
Theme(s): (IRIN) Food Security, (IRIN) Health &Nutrition
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