CRNE in Ouagadougou and Nobéré

Center for Recovery and Nutritional Education (CRNE)

Location : Burkina Faso – Ouagadougou and Nobéré

Goals :

• Save malnourished children
• Educate the mothers on nutrition, health and hygiene
• Ensure a consistent, long term follow-up of the children

Beneficiaries: children with malnutrition

Recovery

Chidren suffering from acute malnutrition are hospitalized in the CRNE, whereas those with moderate malnutrition receive outpatient care during several weeks.
To recover from malnutrition, children are given therapeutic milk the first few days, and then when their state improves, they receive enriched mush and get ready to leave the Center. Meals and medicine are given through naso-gastric probe. The food diet allows a fast resumption of weight gain if the child does not suffer from a specific disease. Recovery time varies from 2 to 4 weeks.

Follow-up

When the child is back to a normal weight and progresses well, he leaves the Center and benefits from a monthly check-up during one year at major weighing sessions.
The mother gets some milk and food supplies to make the enriched baby food at home. She also profits from a teaching on nutrition to enable her to take care of her child once back at home. Approximately 12,000 children are cared for every year.

Workshop for the manufacture of enriched flour used for the preparation of nutritious mush

Distribution of enriched flour to a mother

A mother gives food to her child via a nasogastric tube

A mother learns how to make enriched mush

A malnourished child fed by his mother

Milk delivery to mothers during a community outing

Measuring of mid-upper arm circumference of a child during a community outing organized by Ouagadougou CRNE

A mother feeds her child with enriched mush

– Projects supported by SDC (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) –