(8 Feb 2025)
HZ KENYA AI MALNUTRITION
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kitui county, Kenya – 21 January 2025
1. Various drone shots of farm in Kitui county ++MUTE++
2. Various of local resident Esther Mulu and family picking and preparing crops
3. SOUNDBITE (Kikamba) Esther Mulu, Kitui resident and small farm owner:
"Now we are facing a drought and we don’t know where to get food. Some time back we used to get food aid but nowadays it’s no longer coming. Now I don’t know whether we will trim our stomachs because we don’t have any more food provisions. Now, we will be taking porridge in the morning and waiting for a big meal in the evening or the following day."
4. Drone shot of Mulu and family in field ++ MUTE++
5. Man and child in field
6. SOUNDBITE (Kikamba) Esther Mulu, Kitui resident and small farm owner:
"If you can do research and invent a technology to end hunger, I will personally be very happy. I will forever be thankful because you have discovered what will end the hunger that is killing people, and their livestock."
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Nairobi, Kenya – 23 January 2025
7. Various exteriors of non-governmental organisation African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) headquarters in Kenya
8. Various of Samuel Mburu, Head of Digital Transformation and Excellence at AMREF Africa, working on nutrition dashboard
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Samuel Mburu, Head of Digital Transformation and Excellence AMREF Africa:
"We have looked at historical data for the last 10 years, from different data sources, and helped that to be able to define the number of cases, all the way to the sub-county level. Simply to help allocation of resources ahead of time, so that we can intervene for children under the age of five, to get the nutrition that they need especially at our health facilities."
10. Various of Mburu working on computer with nutrition dashboard
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Samuel Mburu, Head of Digital Transformation and Excellence AMREF Africa:
"We have now the ability to really ingest lots and lots of data and make use of it and bring value. Because data has been used for historical reporting but now we are bringing an opportunity to use it to predict and bring more value to that data. The third component is really resource mobilisation. If we can build a case and build numbers, we can source for resources internally and externally because we can show the need ahead of time. The main shortcoming, I would say, would be cost, especially when it comes to cloud environments. For this particular instance, we did get generous sponsorship from Microsoft but obviously the cost implications of taking advantage of artificial intelligence, such as what we are working on."
12. Various of Mburu working on computer with nutrition dashboard
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Samuel Mburu, Head of Digital Transformation and Excellence AMREF Africa:
"What would happen is that cases are reported of different malnutrition levels and then the resources would be provided to help such as food packs, for the children to improve their malnutrition. With the new technology that we are bringing onboard, we can be able to do 3 months or 6 months prediction of the number of cases that will be at the facility level and mobilise the resources beforehand. That ensures that we actually meet the needs of the community because they are vulnerable in terms of food malnutrition cases and we are aware of that ahead of time."
14. Various of Mburu working on computer with nutrition dashboard
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15. Mulu and family in field
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