Cassava Intervention Project

The intervention will implement the WTM cassava processing technique in participating households. Twenty women (in leading roles) will be our principal candidates to serve as peer trainers. Together with a 20 community health worker specialists, these women will be trained in the WTM technique by the Kinshasa team of community health workers who are experts in the WTM method. Those who master the technique will then be certified as trainers to train and support other small groups of other mothers throughout a two-year period in the implementation of the WTM for the safer processing of food for their families. Both the community health worker specialists and trained women (prospective trainers) would have to be able to bring the cassava cyanogenic content to the lowest achievable level, which must be \< 10 ppm as per the recommendations of the World Health Organization.