Study on feeding and nutrition of 206 bicycle carriers of charcoal has been carried out on several Lubumbashi roads, that is, Kafubu, Kasenga, Kasumbalesa, Kipopo, Likasi and Rwashi.
It results from this study that the nutritional status is standard with a body mass index of 22, 3±1, 9 for a narrow breadth person. Need and food supplies evaluation shows that they have a deficient diet in energy as well as in nutrients (proteins and lipids). These results are alike as those published in the literature. So, we plead in favour of systematic enrichment in diet supplies for this category of carries.