Nyaka Nutritional Assessment Project

Hello everyone! My name is Monika, I’m a Nutritional Sciences student at MSU, and I’ll be going to the MSU College of Human Medicine next year.

I am traveling to Nyakagyezi, Uganda in February and March to carry out a project I put together. I’m hoping this experience will teach me a little more about international research, especially since I hope to travel internationally in the future!

My project is called the Nyaka Nutritonal Assessment Project, and in essence I will be taking height and weight measurements of all the children at the Nyakagyezi Campus of the Nyaka AIDS Orphans School to compare the data to WHO recommendations. The school has a meal program. I also want to try to get measurements from a sample of children who don’t go to the school as a comparison.

I’ll try to update this blog during my stay at Nyaka!