| This proposal is seeking emergency funds to install and house recently procured soybean processing equipment purchased by the Wildlife Conservation Society for $55,000. Additional support is needed to renovate a building to make it suitable for processing soybeans into food products that will be distributed within the Province for improving nutrition among such vulnerable groups as orphans and chronically ill. The first beneficiary group are the soybean producers who are now adopting soybean as part of a large-scale effort to introduce crop rotation and conservation farming to farmers in an area where the watershed is degraded from years of practicing improper farming methods. By processing soybeans for other products that will derive increased market value, the project will be able to increase market incentives to keep growing soybean while also being able to subsidize production of HEPS. The second group of beneficiaries are the targeted groups who will have increased access to HEPS: orphans, hospitals, families with household members to sick and weak to work and selected schools where children need an improved protein supplement. This project, under the program of COMACO which is led by a partner organization, will be linked to CARE’s regional efforts to facilitate low cost supply of HEPS to impoverished and sick people affected by HIV/AIDS and the impact of poverty on nutrition and general well-being. |