Health and Nutrition

Our work: 

Communicate health messages and improve child care practices

• Infant and young child feeding, IYCF (exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months, appropriate complementary feeding)
• Common childhood diseases prevention and management (especially pneumonia, diarrhea)
• Child injury prevention

Integrated water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)

• Ensure families have clean water supply systems and sanitary toilets.
• Additionally, integrate with education and communications methods to change behaviors on handwashing and caring practices during child’s diarrhea and pneumonia. 

Timed and targeted counselling (TTC) for breastfeeding

• Empower community women health volunteers to support mothers to breastfeed exclusively for the first 6 months, using timed and targeted counselling method. 

Partnership and advocacy to support breastfeeding and child nutrition

• Multi-level partnership to strengthen Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in maternity facilities (ten steps to successful breastfeeding). 
• Support women empowerment and participation in child nutrition policy implementation at community level. 

As a result: 

• About 500 pregnant women and mothers of newborn learned about appropriate time for exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding. 
• Over 160 mothers of children under five years of age learned about effective treatment for child’s diarrhea and pneumonia. 
• About 28,000 school students and over 20,000 community members learned about prevention of road traffic injuries, falls and drowning among children.
• About 200 project communities and their members had improved their environment in order to protect their children from having these three types of injuries.