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Phoenix

Phoenix Current Phase: 1   Ongoing Broad-based Feeding Support, Nutrition Education, Health and Nutrition Awareness Campaigns, PRA Assessment, Ongoing Nutrition Surveillance and Anthropometric Surveys Assessments, Stage 2 of the PRA(Training) Process.  R0 of R100 000 raised R Don...

Phoenix Current Phase: 1  

Ongoing Broad-based Feeding Support, Nutrition Education, Health and Nutrition Awareness Campaigns, PRA Assessment, Ongoing Nutrition Surveillance and Anthropometric Surveys Assessments, Stage 2 of the PRA(Training) Process. 

R0 of R100 000 raised

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Food Security status in the area.

Phoenix is an Indian township about 25 kilometres northwest of Durban Central. It was established as a town by the apartheid government in 1976, but it has a long history of Indian occupation. It is associated with the Phoenix Settlement, built by Mahatma Gandhi. initially a sugarcane estate and since the mid-1970s a municipal housing development for the Indian community beginning with unit 4-Stonebridge. Sections were initially labelled as precincts and later renamed with proper street addresses. 

 

CURRENT STATS INCASE YOU NEED THEM:

There is no data on Phoneix’s IPC Acute Food Insecurity  Analysis available. For this reason, data for eThekwini Municipality, which it falls under, will be used. 

IPC ACUTE FOOD INSECURITY ANALYSIS

CURRENT- POPULATION

PROJECTED- POPULATION 

KEY DRIVERS

None                                           

2 024 212

 

           

1 705 151

Lived Poverty, Unemployment,    

Stressed

674 737

852 576

Instability of Food Access,

Crisis

506 053

682 060

Food Affordability,

Emergency

168 684

170 515

Loss of Income, 

Catastrophe

0

0

Covid-19 Impact, Informal Environment, Marginal/ Imbalanced  Food Systems

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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