Supported by European Commission
Partnered with SLCDF
Objectives
Secondary
Primary
5% of children are healthy, protective and living in a conducive home environment with their economically stable families in the Kegalle and Trincomalee districts by end of 2025 year.
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Enhanced 20 Community leaders as “Barefoot Nutritionist" to disseminate good practices, knowledge, change attitude towards the improvement of health, well-being and economic stability of 600 families in two DSDs.
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Improved living standards with essential basics of improved health among the families with inclusion (including women headed families, pregnant mothers, differently able persons)
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Established strong collaboration and inter-sectoral relationships to enhance the impact on improving nutrition and food security among vulnerable children and their families in the two districts.
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Developed a comprehensive Program Proposal in alignment with the National Nutritional Policy of Sri Lanka (2021-2030) to address the nutritional and food security challenges faced by vulnerable families with children.
Target Groups
Direct
Indirect
​600 Families
Local communities in the districts
Project Areas
District
Province
Country
Trincomalee
Kegalle
Eastern
Sabaragamuwa
SRI LANKA
Started
Expected to End
Estimated
Amount
Duration
January 2023
December 2024
N/A
24 Months
Children
Children-centric holistic approach in the Districts of Trincomalee and Kegalle through Multi-sectoral Approaches to Nutrition and Food security’ was funded by Street Child Sri Lanka and directed by SLCDF to ensure that 5% of the children in 600 target families are healthy, protective and living in a conducive home environment. The project involved training 20 “Barefoot Nutritionists” to provide knowledge on health, wellbeing and economic stability. The project will span 14 months