Food Relief
Food relief is directly related to medical attention & provided to babies, children, adults and elderly patients suffering from malnutrition.
When the COVID crisis appeared in the Amazon in March 2020, it unleashed a humanitarian disaster. A disproportionate number of families were eating once every 2 or 3 days. Particularly disturbing was the plight of children, who literally went to bed on empty stomachs, crying themselves to sleep.
Since March 2020, malnutrition spread like wildfire, further complicated by tuberculosis which reared its ugly head in numerous areas.
Within this context, SVSF enacted an Emergency Food & Medical Relief Operation, providing food relief once a month, as well as coordinating disease control with medical teams in the field. This program is ongoing.