DIF Jalisco Presents Its Strategy Against Hunger

In 2013, as part of the National Crusade "No Hunger" promoted by the Federal Government, the System for Integral Family Development (DIF) Jalisco will invest 437 million 711 thousand 357 pesos in their food programs, which will benefit 324 thousand 850 people in the 125 municipalities of the state that are deficient in their diet.

It also aims to operate jointly with the Ministry of Development and Social Integration (SEDIS) of the state and municipal DIF, besides with the actual beneficiaries, up to 40 sustainable community kitchens, in order to generate a greater impact in reducing hunger.

The general director of DIF Jalisco, Consuelo Jiménez González del Rosario said that the welfare agency will direct its efforts in three of the five areas comprising the National Crusade, one of these is to promote an adequate nutrition for people in poverty.

"We will also help to reduce acute child malnutrition and to improve indicators of weight and height, and we will promote community participation and mobilization of people against hunger and poverty", said González Jiménez.

She explained that, currently, one million 628 thousand 724 citizens of Jalisco suffer food shortages, which represents 22.1 percent of the total population of the state. In 78 municipalities, less than 25 percent of the people live in this situation, while in the other 47, the range of people who have trouble meeting nutritional needs is between 25 and 50 percent.

Gonzalez Jimenez added that DIF Jalisco undertakes a social commitment with a two-track approach: "First we will address the issues of immediacy, but we will also create conditions for improving production and income capabilities."

The planning director of DIF Jalisco, Melanea Leonor Orozco Llamas said that this model is currently working in the community of San Andrés Cohamiata, in the municipality of Mezquitic, where there was a survey of 311 households, of which, 103, in which 574 people are living, had severe food shortage.

"We want those who are in severe food scarcity to become beneficiaries of the dinning that is being enabled there", she said. She also expressed confidence in that "with all the other charity that they already have, such as pantry, breakfast and other kinds of rations, the rest of the people can be covered".

Another strategy that the DIF Jalisco will implement will be to strengthen social and human capital, so that individuals and groups are active subjects of their own development. For this the vocation of Community Development Centers will be redirected to generate value-added chains.

In Jalisco, the National Crusade "No Hunger" of the Federal Government will be implemented in six townships: Guadalajara, Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, El Salto, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga and Mezquitic.

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