Home based nutrition rehabilitation (RND)

ABSTRACT

RND is a community approach that ensures the management of malnourished children in their own environment; by the people in their immediate surroundings. In Kpovie village in the Pahau commune (sous-prefecture of Ouidah) CREDESA nutrition project succeeded in rehabilitating a child suffering from severe kwashiorkor whose family had given up hope. This patient was nursed at home with the use of local food items