Meet Maryam Muhammad 👋 she's a health promotion supervisor in Kebbi, northern Nigeria. Together with her team, she leads cooking classes for communities in Kebbi to help prevent and treat moderate malnutrition. “This kind of cooking demonstration is crucial because people understand that they can prevent their children from becoming acutely malnourished rather than bringing them to a facility to treat them," Maryam said. Using ingredients that are locally available, participants at the cooking demonstrations are taught how to make Tom Brown, a special flour blend which, when mixed with water, creates a nutritious porridge. Additional ingredients can be added, based on what is available and affordable, such as milk, meat, or moringa leaves. “Prevention will always be better than cure. MSF will not remain here forever, so sustainable approaches are needed to reduce severe malnutrition. And we know that the people we train today will pass the recipe to others,” Maryam explained.
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