SPRING/Bangladesh and Sisimpur Partner to Produce Nutrition and Hygiene Videos
Sisimpur has collaborated with SPRING/Bangladesh to prepare a live action segment on tippy taps with adolescent children as protagonists to promote hand washing.
Sisimpur has collaborated with SPRING/Bangladesh to prepare a live action segment on tippy taps with adolescent children as protagonists to promote hand washing.
Sisimpur is the Bangladeshi version of the popular children’s television series Sesame Street. Funded by USAID and airing in Bangladesh since 2005, the series is in its ninth season. One of the few initiatives that focuses on preschool education, Sisimpur is revolutionizing the field of education in Bangladesh.
SPRING and Digital Green have collaborated to produce a series of videos to encourage better maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) and hygiene practices in Niger.
Sahoura asks her neighbor, Mariama, why her children are less healthy than Mariama’s, even though Sahoura practices the 1000 days behaviors. Mariama explains that it is important for everyone to wash their hands with soap at critical times during the day to prevent infections. She takes Sahoura to see their water station for the household. He explains the proper method of handwashing at their Tippy Tap, and then Mariama shows how to wash the hands of her young child.
Throughout its global programming, SPRING is harnessing the power of innovative community media to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) and hygiene practices.
SPRING developed and produced a Kyrgyz-language booklet for mothers entitled “Nutrition & Development of Children Under Two Years of Age,” in coordination with the government of the Kyrgyz Republic. The booklet is 12 pages and describes, in simple terms, appropriate nutritional practices for children of different ages (i.e.
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