MIRA believes not just in the power of individuals to transform their own lives, but even more so in the ability of communities to work together to realize local development and sustainable livelihoods. By combining the right resources and knowledge with intentional grass roots ownership, MIRA works to empower communities to decide their own futures and create more choices for themselves and their children.
In order to help community in addressing their basic nutritional needs, MIRA’s hunger and livelihoods programs focus on improving the food supply, farming practices and finances of families in need. Under the programs:

• We give families basic food staples following a natural disaster or emergency.
• We teach parents about the importance of providing their child with the right variety of foods to prevent malnutrition.
• We train small-scale farmers on how to prevent the loss of crops or livestock to drought, floods or disease.
• We guide family farmers on how to grow more nutritious foods, in larger quantities to eat or to sell, and how to raise animals for meat, eggs or milk through Livestock management & kitchen gardening trainings
• We help families’ access basic financial products like savings or insurance so they can persevere through challenging times, or start and expand their small businesses.
• And, we give youth the skills to succeed — like building their savings, teaching them how to manage money, and get a job and/or build a business.

A project ‘Provision of Food, NFI (Non Food Items) and health and Livestock related services to 200 Drought affected families in district Tharparkar and Umerkot’ funded by SEWA International was executed by Hare Rama Foundation (HRF) and MIRA. Those families who were severely affected by droughts and were underprivileged were assisted with provision of food and non-food items. The HRF was facilitated by MIRA in terms of identification of area and beneficiaries’ initial assessment, scooping and packaging of commodities and hiring of local human resources for execution of distribution of commodities and delivering medical and livestock services in the targeted villages.

S.No	Name of Village	Union council	District	No.of Beneficiaries
1.	Kachbe -Jo -Tar	Kantio	Tharparkar	45
2.	Amrahar	Faqeer Abdullah	Umerkot	45
3.	Hanjtal	Vejhiyar	Tharparkar	45
4.	Mithrio Menghwar	Kantio	Tharparkar	45
5.	Punhoon Ji Dhani	Ghariebabad	Umerkot	20

The commodities and non-food items included Rice, Wheat Floor, Pulses, Cooking Oil, Sugar, Bathing Soap, Tea and biscuits and Non Food items on Bucket, Water Cooler and Mug were purchased in the local market. Scooping and packaging of commodities were made with assistance of volunteers of MIRA. Package for one family was as under:

S.N	Item	Quantity
1.	Wheat Floor	20 Kg
2.	Rice	7 Kg
3.	Pulses	3 Kg
4.	Sugar	3 Kg
5.	Cooking Oil	3 Kg
6.	Tea	250 Gram
7.	Bathing Soap	4 Bar
8.	High Energy Biscuit (HEB)	I Pack
9.	Water container (10 Liter volume)	1Piece
10.	Bucket for water storage	1Piece
11.	Mug	1Piece
12.	Bed Net	2Pieces