Two practical solutions to eradicate malnutrition of the entire population of Afghanistan.

Millions of people in Afghanistan suffer malnutrition. People may become less productive, more easily sick, and die earlier. It increases the needs to see doctors, pay for treatments, buy expensive medicine, provide more healthcare facilities and staff, and creates avoidable costs for families and government budget.

Objective: Analyze the food & nutrition situation in the rural areas of Afghanistan. Identify specific needs. Develop customized solutions to specific situations. Guide improvement actions in practical steps.

This publication offers two practical solutions and explains step-by-step how to implement those:

A)???? Cultivate additional vegetables, fruits, herbs (and livestock) fully invested and enabled by the local people.

B)???? Produce and distribute daily cheap food supplements that will assure a healthy diet.

(Note: both approaches could be used to complement each other)

A)??? Help cultivate food (and livestock) locally to meet all nutritional needs of the target population.

The goal is to meet all nutritional needs while enabling the local population to cultivate the necessary vegetables, fruits, and livestock.

?Follow these action steps:

1)???? Identify the biggest need locations for better nutrition in Afghanistan.

2)???? Investigate the daily food consumption of the target population.

3)???? Analyze specific lack of vital proteins, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients.

4)???? Explore possible additional food sources such as locally growing vegetables, fruits, herbs, and others.

5)???? Explore to further complement additional food supplies through animal-based products.

6)???? Develop an overall plan for the above follow the guiding principles.

a.????? Include local population as much as possible in the solution and implementation.

b.????? Focus on enabling the local people to lead and do much of the work.

c.????? Engage with and develop practical solutions with local and other stakeholders.

d.????? Obtain necessary approvals, licenses, and permits.

e.????? Determine necessary inputs (people, land, resources, other contributions)

f.?????? Establish joint shareholding and ownership of the program.

g.????? Create financial models to enable program through local financial participation.

B)???? Provide a customized food supplement that fills nutritional gaps of a target population.

A fast approach to defeat malnourishment is to provide a tablet, paste or powder that provides lacking proteins, vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that people can eat or drink every day. The people will still eat their same food but will enjoy a healthy diet through the supplement.

Business case:

-?????? The market potential is huge! Assume over ten million people in Afghanistan may benefit from such supplement. This translates into 300 million doses per month and more than 3.6million doses per year.

-?????? The ingredients of the supplement are not complicated.

-?????? Supplements can be customized to key regions and respective people’s diets.

-?????? Supplements can be mass-produced.

-?????? Supplements will be much cheaper than buying/ delivering food to giving cash to people to buy supplementary foods.

-?????? Supplements will decrease sickness and healthcare costs.

-?????? Supplements will increase vitality, energy, and productivity of the people.

-?????? Supplements will expand the health & life expectancy of ten million people. This may result more than 50 million-people- years saved (assuming people will live on average 5 years longer)

Calling on businesspeople and NGOs to put above plan into action

Businesspeople:

-?????? There is a great profit opportunity to mass-manufacture the supplement. Even a small profit margin will lead to high profits! There is currently no competition!

NGOs:

-?????? Stop handing out money! Handout supplements!

-?????? Supplements will allow covering the nutritional deficiencies of entire population in rural areas of Afghanistan. It is much more cost-efficient and easier to administrate! You can manage the distribution systematically and ensure that no person is left out...

?You received your step-by-step by step guidance. So, why, don’t you, get involved and help implement it!

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This article reflects the opinion of Alex Steinberg only. It does not claim to represent the viewpoints of any present/ former client, employer, or partner. The author acknowledges that there are often different viewpoints on a topic, which are equally valid. Constructive discussion rather than criticism can lead to better ideas and positive outcome & value to business and society.

About the author:

Alex Steinberg has helped develop, lead, execute, and advise large programs & projects across key industries on five continents.

Alex has helped build countries by conceptualizing and delivering strategies, programs, initiatives and solutions in healthcare, education, telecommunications, real estate & infrastructure, energy, and other key industries. He has helped positively impact over one hundred million people.

Alex is currently in Kabul, identifying opportunities and developing solutions to help build Afghanistan. Alex is coming as an expert advisor to work alongside with government, businesspeople, NGOs, and other parties to serve the people of Afghanistan.

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