Rutsiro residents urged to feed children more milk for better growth

Parents are being called upon to drink milk and feed it to their children to protect them of health related diseases and ensure their growth and development. Parents were told this during the closure of the Milk Awareness Month in Gihango sector in Rutsiro district.

A mother feeding her infant milk

It is common knowledge that most of the families with cows to milk don’t taste milk but they instead sell it. The families with money and access to milk also don’t give much importance to the milk but instead to other drinks like juice and alcohol.

Laurien Jyambere who works with USAID Ejo Heza Project reminded parents the importance of milk especially to the growth of their children. “It is your responsibility to feed your children milk and it is your children rights to grow well and healthy. So feed them milk.”

Jyambere went on to say, feeding milk to children as well as all family members does not only concern families with cows and access to milk but it concerns all people for the sake of their health.

Dr. Michel Gasana from the Ministry of Health asked people with cows to always feed their families and their neighbours before selling the milk. “Milk is food and drinks; you should first have enough for consumption for taking to the remaining to the market.”

The function to close the Milk Awareness Program was held in Rutsiro district on the national level with the theme saying “let us make known the importance of milk in children growth.”

The Milk Awareness Program was prepared by USAID Ejo Heza with the support of Rutsiro district and the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health and other Non Governmental Organization that are concerned about children and general development.

Source: http://www.ubuzimabwacu.com/2013/07/rutsiro-residents-urged-to-feed-children-more-milk-for-better-growth 

Rutsiro residents urged to feed children more milk for better growth