Eight weeks, and a plan for the ninth
“The sachets finished and I understood that the food after them was mine to find. So I learned what to plant.”
Christine's youngest was screened at a parish outreach and referred straight into therapeutic feeding. He gained weight steadily and was discharged after eight weeks.
Discharge is where a lot of nutrition programmes stop and where relapse begins. Christine joined a weekly cooking group that works only with ingredients available within walking distance of Napak town.
She now grows amaranth and orange sweet potato on a plot behind the house, seeded from the kitchen garden scheme.