Farmer nutrition school

Mothers Becoming Homestead Farmers in Bangladesh

By joining a farmer nutrition school, Anowara received valuable knowledge on hygiene, nutrition, and homestead food production, including techniques to improve vegetable gardening, poultry rearing, and fish culture. These lessons helped change her mindset and led to a positive transformation at home.

VIP USAID Delegation Visits Farmer Nutrition Schools in Bagerhat

The Assistant Administrator for USAID/Asia, Ms. Anne Aarnes, and the USAID/Bangladesh Mission Director, Ms. Janina Jaruzelski, visited SPRING on Tuesday, October 28, as part of a short tour that this VIP group is making in Khulna Division this week.

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SPRING/Bangladesh celebrates the Vitamin A Plus Campaign

SPRING supported upazila health and family planning departments by providing outreach services to communities and helping with intensive community mobilization (including making public service announcements, and providing visual aids, like road side banners) and inviting mothers from the Farmer Nutrition Schools, where SPRING is currently implementing its work.

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Farmer Nutrition Schools for Improved Household Nutrition in Bangladesh

Tools and Guidance for Community-Based Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Programming

SPRING pioneered the Farmer Nutrition School (FNS) model of group-based learning for resource-poor households in Bangladesh to improve their production and consumption of diversified, micronutrient-rich foods and encourage pregnant and lactating women and mothers with children under two to adopt improved nutrition and hygiene practices.

Journey to a Promising Future

Rajopa is a housewife living with her husband, a day laborer, and their four children in the Charkhalifa village of Barisal Division in the southern delta region of Bangladesh. For years, Rajopa and her husband have struggled to feed their family on a marginal income. With funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), SPRING invited Rajopa to join a Farmer Field School, a community-level program that provides training on homestead food production.