Malnutrition


Malnutrition       MalnutritionSolutions.Org

Mission Statement
"Solve and share solutions to malnutrition. Use scientific methods to collect malnutrition research and enter in a master database. Provide global access to the information free by publishing to the internet in many languages. The information made easily accessible to specific field locations where malnutrition exists free and in a collaborative manner."

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NOTE: The Niger Experiment
This mission evolved because of a trip by Andy of HoboTraveler.com into Niger chasing a CNN, BBC report of Famine in Niger. Finding no famine he realized there was what appeared to him an solvable problem of extremely malnutrition. Not that it can be solved, however believing it somewhat ludicrous that a country full of NGO's would not tell the people why they have Malnutrition.

The project starts as a benchmark experiment in Niger, the mission will first focus on Niger, whereby experimenting with what works, and doe not work, isolating workable solutions, repeating in comparable situations and building on success only. Replication and sharing of results are part of the foundation of Malnutritionsolutions.org. This is not an organization that wishes to solve malnutrition as much as it want to encourage all organizations to collectively share and solve malnutrition solutions worldwide.

Guiding Principle
Ahimsa:  Sanskrit - noninjury
- not harming living things: the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist philosophy of revering all life and refraining from harm to any living thing. Also called noninjury.

The question will always be posed, how are we hurting others with our good intentions?

SERVICES PROVIDED TO RESEARCHERS AND IMPLEMENTERS

  1. Library Services
    - Books provided for persons in isolated areas, by scanning the book and making available on the internet.
  2. Data Collection
    - Specific Databases of information collected and shared on internet.

SIGNS OF MALNUTRITION

  1. MUAC
  2. Brittle Hair
  3. Lack of Shine of Hair
  4. Weight Loss
  5. Stunted Growth
  6. Extreme Weight Loss
  7. Impairment of intellect
  8. Weakened resistance to infection
  9. Boils on skin
  10. Lack of energy, fatigue
  11. Slow or dull eyes
  12. Constantly sick

INDIRECT SIGNS - POVERTY INDUCED

  1. Extremely soiled clothes
  2. Failure to clean selves.
  3. No home
  4. Not claiming territory

CAUSES OF MALNUTRITION

  1. Culture
  2. Buying fashionable foods and not nutritious, want to eat rice, because modern people eat rice.
  3. Poverty: No money to buy correct food
  4. Growing wrong food
  5. Bad eating habits
  6. Stop being subsistence farmer and working for an employer, food diversity disappeared.
  7. No proper foods for sale
  8. Stopping of subsistence farming and going to work for someone, no home garden
  9. Begging, living on handouts
  10. Large Cash Crops that promise money for all, however only the owners profit, the normal sub-sistence farmer gives up their diversity of gardens.
  11. Growing dependence on government to take care of them, and failure to take care of themselves.
  12. Marx or Democracy creating the idea of caring for the people, a king or chief would demand and require the tribe to produce or be punished, democracy has no punishment, Marxism has no incentive.
  13. Spending food money on cell phones, music, motorcycles, and fashion at the cost of food.
  14. Competition of convenience stores that are convenient, that sell cookies and not anything of nutritional value.
  15. No ability to read or learn health concepts because they people cannot read because they need to pay for school, and not have free schools.
  16. Spend all their time in trying to sell a cash crop at an open air market, and have not time for cultivation of many crops.
  17. The myth that people that live in the country have many vegetable to eat. These are cash crops and shipped to the city, the one person could grow only carrots, not a diverse amount of vegetables, then it is sold as a cash crop.
  18. The weeds, jungle, etc grow so fast, that with hand tools it is almost never cleared enough to be used for a good crop. Vegetables like Carrots, Peas, and even cucumbers can be strangled by the overgrowth of plants. Spending all your time digging furrows, clearing the land every time you plant a crop, diminished the ability to cultivate, weed and nurture the crop.
  19. Competition of labor is now the problem, a farmer has problems finding workers for his fields, as the young would, and understandable, try to be a Moto, Zim or Motorcycle Taxi then to spend the day sweating away with a hoe. They know there is a better way, it stops them from using the older ways.
  20. There is no money, therefore Benin and Nigeria do not ship to Niger.
  21. Parasites that eat all the nutrients of the person.
  22. Because they cannot read, learning to plant and cultivated seeds is difficult.

POVERTY CAUSES OF MALNUTRITION

  1. Street Children
  2. Shanty towns
  3. Free Food, but not nutritious

HOW YOU DIE FROM MALNUTRITION
A weaker defense system of the body, the cause of death is indirect normally.

  1. Malaria
  2. Meningitis
  3. Measles
  4. Diarrhea
  5. Infections that the body fails to fight

POVERTY CAUSES OF POVERTY

  1. Poverty Bad Business Practices

SOLUTIONS TO MALNUTRITION

  1. Genetically grown foods
  2. Vitamin Enriched Candies
  3. Milk Program or Juice Program
  4. Hydroponix
  5. Cultural Change by having Tourist give free milk in morning, change the tourist habits of giving.
  6. Moringa Tree
  7. Give Tourist Vitamin Candies, stopping the idea of giving candies, only healthy food.
  8. Vitamin Enriched Water
  9. Gardens
  10. Non-Electric Irrigation principles
  11. Education
  12. Signs that explain what vegetables they need to eat.
  13. Migrate of move away from problem
  14. Culture change - The person must want the children to live.
  15. Culture change - The normal set of stable foods needs to change.
  16. Babies need to be born at the cycle and times when there is the best nutrients for the baby inside the mother.
  17. Tourist Carry Seeds and give to people in the market.

NORMAL PROBLEMS THAT ERUPT INTO BIGGER PROBLEMS

  1. Loss of jjob
  2. Dried fields because of drought
  3. Ate all the crop and none left
  4. Sold all the crop and mismanaged the food.

ALTERNATIVES SOLUTIONS TO NORMAL PROBLEMS
- Alternative systems when one form of living fails.

  1. International Aid

MULTI-LAYERED CAKE APPROACH

  1. Creation of jobs so they can afford to eat.

BUSINESS THINK TANK - IDEAS FOR BUSINESS IN COUNTRY WITHOUT ENOUGH GOOD JOBS

GENERAL

  1. International import export web site that sells products
  2. Pizza Kiosk
  3. Chicken Farms in Africa
  4. Mango Plantations in Africa
  5. Mosquito Net
  6. Small bags
  7. Home-Stay business
  8. Fried Rice and Chicken Kiosk
  9. Leather Working

NIGER

  1. International import export web site that sells products
  2. Jewelry Export
  3. Leather Works and Tanning
  4. Basket Weaving

BUSINESS THAT PEOPLE WOULD STEAL FROM AND SO BE IT

  1. MANGO
  2. LEMONS

COMMUNICATION OF SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEM AREAS
- How to advertise:

COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION

TYPE OF LITERATURE OR WAYS TO COMMUNCATION

MONEY FOR PROJECTS

  1. Gates Foundation
  2. All NGOs rob from Rich to give to Poor
  3. USAID or Governments giving to NGOS
  4. Money from advertisers on site

ISOLATING THE CONCENTRATIONS OF MALNUTRITION

  1. News reports
  2. Long-Term Refugees
  3. Ghettos
  4. Street Children

LEARN IN NIGER

  1. Can they have garden plots
  2. Can we post signs
  3. Can they read it?
  4. Can I make signs there?
  5. Foods grown
  6. Seeds available
  7. Organizations working on solutions

RESEARCH OF MALNUTRITION SOLUTIONS
"The Categories" - Malnutrition Categories
"The MINE" - Malnutrition Unsorted Research Data
- Explanation of algorithmic process of research methodology.

RESEARCH AREAS THAT OVER-LAP

  1. Agriculture
  2. Medicine
  3. Finance
  4. Weather
  5. Nutrition and Dieticians
  6. Chemistry or analysis of foods - soils
  7. International Business
  8. Ethnology or Cultural Anthropology
  9. Language Studies
  10. International Studies
  11. Sociology
  12. Pedagogy - How to teach

VOLUNTEER GUIDELINES

REQUIREMENTS FOR NIGER

  1. Self Supporting
  2. Never give money or products of value to a person for free.
  3. Post daily opinions to internet diary.
  4. Obey the local customs
  5. No drinking, drugs, or cigarettes

PAID PROFESSIONAL GUIDELINES

BOOKS TO READ

  1. "Lords of Poverty" by Graham Hancock
  2. "The Road to Hell": The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity by Michael Maren
  3. "Condemned to Repeat"?: The Paradox of Humanitarian Action by Fiona Terry
  4. Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace - or War by Mary B. Anderson

MAPS

  1. Michelin Guide

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