(Presented by Vincens Burow Lydia – Feb 2018)

My name is VINCENS Burow Lydia. I am a Burundian, Manager of MOTHER NATURE PRODUCTS. 

  (In these photos I am with AMH’s President, Professor Robert Tchitnga, who visited Burundi in January.)

Traditionally in the Kings’ era, Burundians ate vitamin-rich sorghum pulp (crushed with its bark), but because of the low yield of this food, Burundians subsequently kept their food habits, making use of maize and cassava pills which have a higher yield per hectare (ha), but, low nutritional values (white flours).

Mr Albert Mbonerane (former Minister of Environment and territory Planning) is behind the official and massive introduction of the Moringa Oleifera Tree in Burundi.

It is mainly through its association called “Green Belt” that Burundians have known the moringa plant and its benefits that I will list in my presentation and in the UNICEF document.

A 2012 study showed that nutrition-related causes of death contribute to the deaths of 3.1 million children under five every year. In many African countries, malnutrition, particularly chronic malnutrition and stunting, is poorly understood.

Burundi, a small and densely populated country in East Africa, has more than 10 million inhabitants, with around 90% living in rural areas. Despite its lush green hills, the country is experiencing the highest hunger rate out of the 120 countries where the world hunger index has been calculated. Almost two third or 58% of children under-fives suffer chronic malnutrition – one of the highest rates in the world.

Indeed, as a solution to malnutrition, moringa powder should be added to corn pasta and cassava to balance the diet. For example, to each meal of a pregnant woman, moringa powder is added, the unborn child finds all he needs for good growth, whether intellectual or physiological.

As you know, a child’s growth starts from a very young age and, like building a house, it has to have a good foundation if you want to build high.  That is the challenge of the youth of tomorrow.

The only way to change dietary habits is to raise awareness about the importance of nutrition and medicinal plants.  Unfortunately, this becomes difficult because many Africans are suspicious of herbal medicine, because they associate it with witchcraft. 

“Many people have Moringa trees like this man, but do not no that it is of great importance. This man told me, he had never eaten it and that he planted just for its shadow.” – Prof. Robert Tchitnga

Mother Nature Products

We produce an excellent quality of Moringa oleifera leaf powder, grown in our own fields, free of chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides.

Our products are carefully selected and dried in a natural way, protected from the light to preserve all the nutritional and healing properties.

OUR MORINGA PRODUCTS INCLUDE:

• Moringa leaf powder capsules
• Moringa seed powder capsules
• Moringa leaf powder
• Pure Moringa oil
• Moringa soaps
• Moringa skin creams.