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Our publications curate evidence, best practices, and policies to help improve nutrition through health, agriculture, and economic development programs.

Photo of a group of women holding up SPRING nutrition counseling materials.
Success Stories | September 2018

Supportive Families Enable Healthy Mothers and Thriving Babies

Photo of two women posing and holding a baby
Success Stories | September 2018

Defeating Anemia: A Grandmother Takes Charge in Her Home and Community

Photo of a woman posing in front of a SPRING banner. Caption: "Firuza poses with a SPRING banner at a training for volunteer coordinators."
Success Stories | May 2018

Be the Change You Want to See

Photo of a young boy with a bowl of food on the table in front of him. Caption: "The beet salad is a hit at lunch time!"
Success Stories | March 2018

Kindling Best Nutrition Practices in Kindergarten

Photo of a child washing her hands with a tippy tap as several other children look on. Caption: "Children in the village of Touba Mourid have fun practicing proper hygiene by washing their hands at a special handwashing station or tippy tap."
Success Stories | March 2018

Hygiene Champions Improve Health in Senegal, One Village at a Time

Photograph of several women and men looking at notes posted on a large bulletin board and having a discussion. Caption: "CHAIN partners reflect on joint activities they developed during a November 2016 workshop."
Success Stories | December 2017

Finding a Shared Purpose: Strengthening Coordination and Collaboration for Improved Nutrition in Rwanda

Photo of a mother, her child, and a nurse at a health facility looking at information on nutrition. Caption: "Mairam Usupova, Head Nurse at the Family Group Practice in Naryn, counsels a mother on maternal nutrition and dietary diversity.
Success Stories | December 2017

Supportive Supervision Brings Better Health Services to the Kyrgyz Republic

Photo of a woman, Sanatu Fuseini, displaying her VSLA passbook at a meeting with a large group of other women.
Success Stories | November 2017

A Little Help from My Friends

Photo of a man, Tengdo Kuzoba, standing by his latrine and tippy tap.
Success Stories | November 2017

Community Video Spurs Collective Action to Improve Sanitation in Ghana

Mst. Nurunnahar provides messages on handwashing practices and dietary diversity during her session.
Success Stories | August 2017

Integrating Agriculture, Nutrition, and Hygiene Knowledge for Improved Health Practices

Whitney, 2, with his grandmother Zewelensi, 60. Whitney was malnourished, but after three months of eating foods mixed with MNP, his health improved.
Success Stories | July 2017

The Power of Powders in Uganda

A heath worker plots a child's growth on a chart.
Success Stories | July 2017

Charting a Path to Better Nutrition in Ghana

A groundnut farmer receives an award from a FFS instructor.
Success Stories | July 2017

Empowering Women through Better Agriculture and Improved Yields

A woman picks okra in her field.
Success Stories | July 2017

Clean Fields Bring Stronger Yields

A 9 year old girl demonstrates proper handwashing technique.
Success Stories | July 2017

Soap to the Rescue! Kyrgyz Students Wash Away Germs for Better Nutrition

A man stands outside a round latrine structure with a thatched roof.
Success Stories | May 2017

Bringing Health to Neighbors through Better Hygiene

Thiane Dramé waters the garden SPRING helped her to diversify.
Success Stories | March 2017

Growing Food for a Growing Family in Senegal

Sefali Begum prepares the vermicomposting bed for her successful homestead garden in Barisal, Bangladesh.
Success Stories | March 2017

Hidden Treasure: In Bangladesh, Worms Help Improve Nutrition through Better Homestead Gardens

Officer Faridul Islam washes his hands with a tippy tap.
Success Stories | March 2017

Police Officers Help Spread Better Hygiene and Nutrition in Bangladesh

Photo of a woman holding a newborn with a midwife advising
Success Stories | January 2017

Helping Hospitals Become “Baby-Friendly”

Bege Support Group members discuss optimal infant and young child feeding with community leader Mai Unguwar.
Success Stories | December 2016

Conquering Challenges to Better Nutrition: The Women of Kajuru, Nigeria

Aminci Support Group members contribute money to a common pool of funds that can be used to increase the diversity of foods eaten by their families.
Success Stories | December 2016

Women Empower Women to Improve Children’s Diets in Nigeria

Photo of Ms. Kush seated at a desk
Success Stories | November 2016

Allocating Money for Better Nutrition in Nigeria

Photo of Miss Bantaabu, a community health worker, meets with Madam Kusumi Gipi (right) during a counseling session about breastfeeding.
Success Stories | October 2016

Breastfeeding Basics Mean Better Nutrition

Hajiya Abdullahi talks with infant and young child feeding support group members in Toto, Nigeria.
Success Stories | October 2016

Improved Infant Nutrition Gives Nigerian Mothers a Sense of Community and Pride

Union Facilitator Oloka Biswas speaks to a farmer nutrition school graduate and her family members.
Success Stories | October 2016

Union Facilitators Leave a Legacy of Better Nutrition Practices in Bangladesh

SPRING Nutrition Coordinator Grace Essien visits a household vegetable garden in Ebom, Nigeria, where residents believed they could not grow their own food.
Success Stories | October 2016

Growing Nutritious Food at Home

Community activist Nazira Subankulova with the fresh produce she sells. After SPRING’s nutrition trainings, it is now in high demand.
Success Stories | October 2016

From Salty Snacks to Fresh Food

Farmer nutrition school member Nilufa tends to her orange-fleshed sweet potato crop.
Success Stories | September 2016

The Magic of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potatoes

Nasima’s family helps her prepare and use the compost that allows them to grow more nutritious vegetables. Photo credit: SPRING/Bangladesh
Success Stories | September 2016

From Decaying Peels to Delicious Produce

Faustina Kiisi, a community health nurse at Tolon Health Center, reaches out to her colleagues on WhatsApp.
Success Stories | September 2016

“Smart” Support for Better Nutrition

Nurse Usupova Mairam (on the left) counsels Jazgul about the best way to feed her one-year-old daughter Aitunuk.
Success Stories | August 2016

One Mother at a Time

Mr. and Mrs. Azaghizo have increased their yield of ground nuts by spontaneously adopting better farming practices taught through farmer field schools.
Success Stories | August 2016

Better Farming Methods Yield Healthy Results

During her pregnancy, Denise’s sister-in-law benefitted from healthy produce grown in the household garden.
Success Stories | August 2016

Planting the Seeds of Better Nutrition in Mali

Nurses at the improved prenatal clinic lead group education about nutrition with pregnant women awaiting consultations.
Success Stories | August 2016

Creating a More Welcoming Environment at Hôpital Immaculée Conception des Cayes Supports Nutrition Counseling in Haiti

Nigeria's Nutrition-Savvy Dads
Success Stories | August 2016

Nigeria's Nutrition-Savvy Dads

Putting Training into Practice for Better Infant and Young Child Nutrition in Nigeria
Success Stories | August 2016

Putting Training into Practice for Better Infant and Young Child Nutrition in Nigeria

A Family Welfare Visitor uses mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) tape to regularly screen the growth of children in her area.
Success Stories | June 2016

Bangladesh's Family Welfare Visitors

Photo of Dr. Pierre
Success Stories | May 2016

SPRING/Haiti Works with “Nutrition Focal Point” Agents to Amplify Nutrition Messages

Mehdi Hasan Sattar helps his wife in the homestead garden, where the family grows nutritious vegetables. Photo credit: SPRING/Bangladesh
Success Stories | May 2016

Supportive Husbands, Healthy Families

Farmer nutrition school participants practice throwing a net into the fish pond in Babuganj. The fish they catch will provide critical nutrients to their families. Photo: SPRING/Bangladesh
Success Stories | May 2016

Fishing for Good Nutrition

Infant in a blanket
Success Stories | February 2016

Lifesaving Links in Nigeria

In Durgapur village, a farmer nutrition school graduate and her son tend to the chickens that produce important nutrients for their family.
Success Stories | January 2016

Speaking Up for Better Nutrition

A latrine constructed in a community in the Upper East region of Ghana after SPRING/Ghana’s WASH intervention.
Success Stories | November 2015

When WASH 1,000 Came to Piyaligo

Gmangun Charles shows off his household’s new latrine in the Kubone community in Ghana’s northern region.
Success Stories | November 2015

The Power of a Latrine

Community members learn about the importance of proper infant and young child feeding practices, Utagban community, Edo state.
Success Stories | November 2015

Mothers in Remote Utagban Become Models for Exclusive Breastfeeding

Women attending a training session
Success Stories | November 2015

Bringing Better Nutrition to Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Nigeria

Seitova Raima holding her child
Success Stories | November 2015

Exclusive Breastfeeding in Rural Kyrgyzstan: One Mother’s Journey to Success

Woman holding and feeding her toddler
Success Stories | October 2015

Vegetables, Fish, and Tippy Taps

A community health care provider meets with a lactating mother at Atakathi Community Clinic.
Success Stories | September 2015

Community Clinic in Bangladesh Sets a New Standard of Care