MAURITANIA

Improving education, nutrition, water, and sanitation

Chronic food insecurity and malnutrition are prevalent across Mauritania. Frequent droughts, limited natural resources, and widespread deforestation make it challenging to access affordable, abundant, and nutritious food.

Counterpart works to build the capacity of community health workers and community leaders to improve nutrition, water, and sanitation while also boosting school attendance by providing children with daily nutritious meals.

Counterpart’s The Future is Ours! McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition program in Mauritania is funded by the USDA. The program works in partnership with the government to reduce hunger, improve health, and strengthen the primary education system. The program, in effect from 2019 to 2024, distributes deworming medicines to students and distributes meals to 209 schools in the villages of the Brakna and Gorgol regions. During the 2022-2023 school year, the program provided over 9.5 million school meals to more than 72,000 children in Mauritania.

An integral component of McGovern-Dole is literacy improvement and teacher training. Counterpart and its partner, ARED, have developed teacher training curriculum and textbooks, which the Ministry of Education is adopting for use nationwide.

Results from last year

58

water stations installed

3M

textbooks in Arabic and French printed

13M

hot school meals served

Projects

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Dispatches from Mauritania

School Feeding Program Gets Boost from Mauritania-Senegal Exchange Visit

School Feeding Program Gets Boost from Mauritania-Senegal Exchange Visit

In May 2022, a team of 17 people including officials from the government of Mauritania, local and regional leaders, and Counterpart staff traveled to the Republic of Senegal. The goal...
School Feeding Program Earns High Marks in Mauritania

School Feeding Program Earns High Marks in Mauritania

School feeding program earns high marks in Mauritania In the village of Sarandougou Djibéride, located roughly 50 miles from Aleg in the southwest of Mauritania, elementary schools face multiple challenges,...