For many women, the journey to access healthcare is long and exhausting, as they walk under the scorching sun while pregnant or carrying small children. They have come to the hospital receive their take home ration of special fortified cereal, attend nutrition counselling and receive...
Read MoreIn 2017, at the Global Nutrition Summit in Milan, the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) made its first large financial pledge: to invest $100 million in nutrition by 2030. The RISE for Nutrition annual Nutrition Request for Applications (RFA) is one key vehicle through which ECF...
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Supporting Women to reach their Breastfeeding Goals...
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BREASTFEEDING: Foundation of Life World Breastfeeding Week is to raise awareness of the importance of breastfeeding. Join us in our support for breastfeeding mothers. Why? Because breastfeeding is a universal solution that helps every child start out in life on equal terms. It also improves the health,...
Read MoreBREASTFEEDING: Foundation of Life World Breastfeeding Week is to raise awareness of the importance of breastfeeding. Join us in our support for breastfeeding mothers. Why? Because breastfeeding is a universal solution that helps every child start out in life on equal terms. It also improves the health,...
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Visiting Chad from 1 to 3 July 2018, UN Deputy Secretary-General and SUN Movement Coordinator Gerda Verburg, accompanied by SUN Movement Executive Committee president Shawn Baker, met with all stakeholders in the SUN Movement. Their fruitful discussions with the Representative of the Head of State,...
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The scale of the challenge in tackling child malnutrition is undeniable. Millions of children are malnourished because of who they are and where they live, and progress remains far too slow - the world is not spending anywhere near enough to deliver the change that we...
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On 17 November 2017, The SUN Movement - Mauritania civil society organization for the fight against malnutrition and the Mauritanian Women Parliamentarians’ Network (REFPAM) met at the National Assembly to discuss the organization of a national open day for nutrition....
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Find out how SUN countries in West Africa marked World Breastfeeding Week 2017 (WBW2017) under the theme “Sustaining Breastfeeding Together”, highlighting how breastfeeding provides the essential nutrients that infants worldwide need to grow, develop and survive. ...
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The provincial Government of Kwango organized a provincial conference in Kenge from 22 to 24 August 2017, with the technical and financial support of UNICEF, on the repositioning of nutrition as a development priority. This conference forms part of national efforts and commitments to scale...
Read MoreHeld under the slogan "Sustaining Breastfeeding Together", World Breastfeeding Week highlights that breastfeeding provides the necessary nutrients for the growth, development and survival of children around the world. Various activities were organized throughout the whole of the Latin American continent during World Breastfeeding Week 2017....
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