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BURKINA FASO / NUTRITION
STORY: BURKINA FASO / NUTRITION
TRT: 5.04
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
SOURCE: UNICEF
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / MOSSI / NATS
DATELINE: 1-6 JULY 2012, OUAGADOUGOU / OUAHIGOUYA / TILLI / NOUSSOU / TAMIDOU, BURKINA FASO
1. Close up, rope pulled over log
2. Wide shot, woman pouring water
3. Med shot, watering garden
4. Wide shot, women queuing with babies for nutrition check
5. Med shot, health worker checking health book
6. Close up, measuring child's arm
7. Close up, writing in health book
8. Close up, child eating
9. Pan, table to health worker explaining foods
10. Wide shot, mothers looking at aubergine
11. Med shot, health worker talking to women
12. Close up, old woman
13. Med shot, health worker holding up food poster
14. Wide shot, health worker talking to group of women
15. Wide shot, woman working in garden
16. Med shot, woman hoeing
17. Close up, hoeing
18. Close up, planting plant
19. Close up, watering can
20. Close up, picking vegetables
21. Close up, woman eating vegetable
22. Pan, woman selling vegetable to market
23. Close up, buying food
24. Close up, woman buying food
25. Wide shot, woman and stall owner discussing food
26. Med shot, woman buying food
27. SOUNDBITE (French) Cecile Beloum Ouedraogo, President, Appui Moral, Material et Intellectuel a l'Enfant :
“In nutritional education there is education, feeding demonstration, and we get the mother to make the food so that they can apply the lesson back home. We have seen very positive results. Thanks to nutritional education, testing and diagnosing, classes for mothers, we have seen the rate of malnutrition drop in the area we work.”
28. Med shot, hands dipping into food bowls
29. Med shot, boys eating
30. Med shot, mother feeding baby
31. Close up, baby eating
32. Pan, children’s hands gathering food to eating
33. Close up, child
34. Close up, mother and baby in audience
35. Wide shot, actors
36. Close up, actors talking during question and answer session
37. Med shot, mothers and babies watching
38. Med shot, mothers and babies
39. Med shot, mother and baby watching
40. Med shot, mother answering question
41. Wide shot, actors dancing
42. Close up, baby
43. Wide shot, woman with baby on lap
44. SOUNDBITE (Mossi) Mamounata Kabore, Mother:
“Now it is not like it used to be. Before, kids were sick a lot. The kids were catching infections from the mothers feeding them incorrectly. Sometimes they would even die from it. Today with women practicing exclusive breastfeeding, the children are healthy and they don't get sick as much.”
45. Wide shot, mother powdering baby
46. Close up, mother standing
47. Med shot, lifting baby
48. Wide shot, mother with baby in lap
49. SOUNDBITE (Mossi) Mamounata Kabore, Mother:
“That's why all the women in this village breastfeed their children until they are six months old.”
50. Med shot, mother breastfeeding
51. Close up, Cecile Beloum Ouedraogo
52. Close up, woman holding egg in front of group of women
53. Med shot, woman pointing out different foods on poster
54. Med shot, women looking at woman talking
55. SOUNDBITE (French) Alain Holleville, Ambassador of the European Union Delegation to Burkina Faso:
“This project, which is integrated within a group of projects that we are funding in Burkina Faso in the field of food security, is specifically focused on nutrition with the pedagogical aim to emphasize that nutrition issues have to be understood in a multi-sectorial approach. That means to integrate production, quality, food diet, education. So in one word, it must become a ‘hub’ of issues, which is a very new way of approaching things compared to what has been in place in the field of food security over the last few years.”
56. Med shot, mother picking vegetable
57. Med shot, girl eating vegetables
58. Wide shot, mother planting seeds
59. Med shot, mother planting seeds
60. Close up, mother planting seeds
61. Med shot, mother walking though field
62. Wide shot, woman crushing food
A quiet revolution is sweeping villages in northern Burkina Faso. Deep in the drought-prone Sahel belt families are farming more efficiently and feeding their children better than ever before.
While malnutrition is one of the biggest killers of children under five in Burkina Faso, the problem is not so much about lack of food, as the lack of the right kinds of food.
UNICEF, the European Union, the government of Burkina Faso and local NGOs, are working to ensure women and young children have better quality, and more dependable sources of food.
Local NGOs are teaching mothers to rely less on staples such as millet, and to eat more fruits and vegetables.
And farmers are being encouraged to grow more varied crops.
They're taught more efficient farming techniques and are given financial help to develop their plots and wells.
What their families don’t eat is sold at the local markets.
Monday is market day in Ouahigouya. Fruit and vegetable vendors here don’t just sell their food—they talk to their customers about its nutritional value.
Mothers are taught how to fortify their family meals with vitamin rich ingredients.
SOUNDBITE (French) Cecile Beloum Ouedraogo, President, Appui Moral, Material et Intellectuel a l'Enfant :
“In nutritional education there is education, feeding demonstration, and we get the mother to make the food so that they can apply the lesson back home. We have seen very positive results. Thanks to nutritional education, testing and diagnosing, classes for mothers, we have seen the rate of malnutrition drop in the area we work.”
But without a nutritious start in life, a change in diet can be too late. Traditionally mothers in Burkina Faso don't breastfeed exclusively, often substituting gravy or even water. As a result, babies become malnourished and many die.
As part of the programme, local theatre groups visit rural villages and perform plays that encourage exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of child's life. The performance is followed by a question and answer session to make sure mothers get the message.
Mamounata Kabore is one of the mothers watching, even though she still breastfeeds her nine-month old baby, Oumaroum who has only recently been introduced to other types of food.
Thanks to the partnership between UNICEF and the European Union, other mothers are beginning to follow her example.
SOUNDBITE (Mossi) Mamounata Kabore, Mother:
“Now it is not like it used to be. Before, kids were sick a lot. The kids were catching infections from the mothers feeding them incorrectly. Sometimes they would even die from it. Today with women practicing exclusive breastfeeding, the children are healthy and they don't get sick as much.”
Over 14 and a half thousand villages will benefit from the programme, reaching an estimated 75,000 pregnant women, 145,000 children under the age of two, and 145,000 breastfeeding mothers.
SOUNDBITE (French) Alain Holleville, Ambassador of the European Union Delegation to Burkina Faso:
“This project, which is integrated within a group of projects that we are funding in Burkina Faso in the field of food security, is specifically focused on nutrition with the pedagogical aim to emphasize that nutrition issues have to be understood in a multi-sectorial approach. That means to integrate production, quality, food diet, education. So in one word, it must become a ‘hub’ of issues, which is a very new way of approaching things compared to what has been in place in the field of food security over the last few years.”
In northern Burkina Faso the seeds have been planted for a new approach to tackling malnutrition. Out of it UNICEF and the European Union aim to help grow communities that are able to cope with future droughts, and healthily feed themselves and their children.
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