Prices are going up and people are continuing to depend on imported processed food - Kiran

Prices are going up and people are continuing to depend on imported processed food.

FRIEND FIJI Founder and CEO Shashi Kiran says people are still struggling for food even though they are employed.

She says they have been running training programmes on how to be food secure with what you have growing in your backyard. The CEO says apart from the livelihood training that they do, they have just finished training 500 families on food security.

She says the training teaches people to grow food and use local resources so children and their families have healthy meals.

Kiran says many families have cassava growing in the backyard and they can use that for making pancakes and roti.

She further says prior to the COVID pandemic, 80 percent of children below the age of two are anemic with more than 50 percent of Fiji being anemic according to the National Nutrition Survey.

Kiran adds they have run 9 different trainings in the past 2 months where they have had major interest in organics.