FIT TO MOVE
Fit To Move
FIT TO MOVE PROJECT OF UBNLINKS FOUNDATION focuses on 3 major areas
- Fighting against malnutrition in a determined effort to reduce hunger and end extreme poverty.
Our Multiverse FarmShop at Owerri ,Imo State Nigeria is dedicated to the learning, the practice, and the teaching of sustainable based agricultural practices for
- Quality Seed Production Laboratory
- Improve Crop Varieties
- Manage soil nutrients
- Manage weeds and use cover crops
- Identifying pests and implementing pest management strategies
- Teaching and mentoring local farmers about land selection, seeding time, how to prepare crops for market and comply with food safety regulations
- Connecting local farmers with agencies that provide services for new farmers like The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC)
The goal of Our Multiverse FarmShop is to reduce scarcity of food, water and land so as to become a multi-purpose, seed structure and seed development integrated farming system that produces hybrid seed, healthy food, fiber, sell vegetable seeds, and other Improved Crop Varieties that are accessible and affordable to all farmers and can be cultivated successfully on a small scale. These Improved Crop Varieties is not just more food on the table but could create an opportunity for the individual to take care of basic needs, take a child to school, pay their own hospital bill or for a family members hospital bill since there is no health insurance coverage.
- Knitting Therapeutic Cafe : FIT TO MOVE Knitting -Beading Therapeutic Café of UBNLINKS FOUNDATION focuses on handicraft, to promote and generate economic opportunity for low income people in the Bronx, through onsite mentorship.
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We partner with artisans and business leaders to help people earn extra income through ‘arts and crafts’. Participants will learn how to make fashionable beads, necklaces, earrings, bags, knitting blankets, sweaters, vests, shawls, scarves, hats, mittens, bedspreads, and caps for newborns.
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3. Every older adults and people with mobility impairment or limited strength deserves to get around
Knitting is a powerful therapy and a valuable self-help tool for people to control their symptoms especially for those dealing with more serious mental health issues and/or medical conditions such as :
- Stress
- Low mood
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Addiction
- Eating Disorders
- Chronic pain
- Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia
Research has shown that knitting has meditative, creative and social benefits and reduced burnout most in those who felt most overwhelmed by their jobs.” Knitting therapy is important because it’s accessible, low cost, and portable. It can be done anytime, anywhere.
Knitting is a powerful therapy
Fit to Move Project –Ghana
In the U.S, the FIT TO MOVE project of UBNLINKS FOUNDATION focus is to help at-risk populations in need-specifically people with mobility impairment, Fighting against malnutrition. More children suffer from malnutrition in United States due to dietary imbalances rather than nutritional deficiencies faced in West Africa. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, South Bronx is the poorest district in the entire nation. 38% of the district’s residents, totaling 256,544 people, are living below the poverty line; 49 percent of children in the district are living in poverty. UBNLINKS FOUNDATION is headquartered in Bronx, NY, to make a difference. People facing food insecurity are often dealing with other socioeconomic issues such as a lack of affordable stable housing; households lacking affordable housing are vulnerable to diseases and illness associated with malnutrition and inadequate health care
More than a million people in Western Africa are at risk of severe malnutrition. Among the 6.9 million children who die under the age five in 2011, just under half lived in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the UN Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) 2013 State of the World’s Children report. One-third of these deaths took place in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria.
The global image of Nigeria masks the reality on the ground. One of Africa’s richest oil states on the surface, Nigeria may seem like a world apart from other Sahelian states such as Mali and the Niger. Only now is Nigeria’s place in the Sahel crisis becoming clearer to the international community, Nigeria has one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the world; one in seven children die before his or her fifth birthday. Eleven million Nigerian children are suffering from malnutrition, the Country Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Jean Gough has revealed. 41 % of Nigerian children under age five suffer stunted growth as a result of malnutrition In Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, there are multiple reasons malnutrition cases is on the rise, but the major contribution factors are; high food prices, conflict, high incidence rates of malaria. Other structural causes include weak health systems, deep poverty, poor water and sanitation conditions, and in some case inadequate infant care.
Imagining malnutrition is one thing, but beholding a malnourished child is another. A visit to some states in Nigeria such as Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Delta, Ebonyi, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, and Yobe is something you cannot forget in a hurry.
Fit to Move Project –Nigeria
Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)
Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) has revolutionised the treatment of severe malnutrition – providing foods that are safe to use at home and ensure rapid weight gain in severely malnourished children, a condition that contributes to more than 1.5 million child deaths each year. Our FIT TO MOVE PROJECT is improving the lives of many children each year, make a donation that saves lives. We cannot buy, ship, distribute or redistribute these products without your financial contribution. Please make a donation to support FIT TO MOVE PROJECT because access to good nutrition is a fundamental right of children under the age of five. A child cannot be FIT TO MOVE when he/she is hungry. A hungry child gets sick more often, a malnourished child cannot do well in school and may not even graduate from college. 
