Aiming to share knowledge about the importance of a simple food supplement that is capable of collaborating in the recovery of malnutrition, the Fraternity – International Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) is launching the Multimixture Booklet. The formula, developed by Dr. Clara Brandão, is characterized as a simple way of enriching the usual diet of people of all ages and social classes and, with the support of NGOs, religious and governmental institutions, has achieved significant dissemination in countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia.
The booklet emerged as a demand from participants in the multimixture and dehydration of fruits and vegetables courses that the Fraternity – Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) carried out in partnership with Angola’s Caritas, who sought to learn more about the subject and have autonomy to replicate the knowledge. The trainings are strategies adopted by the Fraternity – International Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) to allow the sharing of knowledge and the formation of multipliers of these approaches.
The multimixture acts on health as a complement to the usual diet, and because it is easy to prepare and contains parts of vegetables that we usually do not use, it is characterized as a way to promote the full use of food. The Sphere Handbook addresses the need for micronutrient deficiencies to be corrected; in this sense, Multimixture Flour is a valuable strategy to collaborate with the quality of life of people affected by humanitarian crises and situations of vulnerability.
Dehydration, on the other hand, is a low cost and high nutritional value natural food conservation method. Being popularized, it can become more accessible, in addition to collaborating with the optimization of the production of fruits and vegetables where they are abundant, thus avoiding waste. Mother Teresa, a member of the Fraternity – International Humanitarian Missions (FIHM), highlights the importance of knowing the technique of dehydrating food “in a society where food waste is a challenge to be overcome.”
Since its foundation, the Fraternity – International Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) has worked with an ideal of food based on simplicity, adaptation to what is produced locally and integral health, with initiatives permeated by sustainable practices and integration with nature. The studies and implementations aim at the self-sustainability of the institutions and the sharing of knowledge and items that can collaborate with vulnerable populations, and can be adapted to different contexts of social and humanitarian crises.
The Multimixture Booklet is being made available as a way to encourage the dissemination of this precious food supplement in these times when hunger and malnutrition are largely responsible for the death and poor health of a large part of the population of our planet, as a result of poverty, social inequality, armed conflicts and climate crises.
