In April 2017, SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Kyrgyz tele-radio company, Tumar, organized seven free concerts in seven townships—Jalalabad, Tash-Kumyr, Kara-Kul, Kochkor-Ata, Mailuu-Suu, Shamaldy-Sai, and Naryn—to raise awareness about nutrition and hygiene issues within urban populations.
En s’appuyant sur une collaboration réussie de la vidéo communautaire en Inde avec Digital Green, SPRING a adapté et évalué l’efficacité et l’extensibilité d’une approche de vidéo communautaire facilitée pour promouvoir la nutrition maternelle, infantile et du jeune enfant (MIYCN) et l’hygiène au Niger et au Burkina Faso.
Pietropaoli, Jennifer, Philip Moses, and Heather Forrester. "Using Trials of Improved Practices to Shift Nutrition and Hygiene Behaviours in Sierra Leone." Field Exchange, no. 54 (February 2017): 33-34. March 2017. Accessed August 21, 2017. http://www.ennonline.net/fex/54/nutbehavioursierraleone.
SPRING/Sierra Leone conducted trials of improved practices (TIPs) with 24 households in Tonkolili District to test nutrition-sensitive WASH behaviours and selected complementary feeding behaviours for children aged 6-23 months.
This short video is a brief overview of the work that SPRING has been doing in Bangladesh since the project began in 2012.
Learn more about SPRING/Bangladesh.
Officer Faridual Islam learned about the FNS practice of using tippy taps while on patrol near a FNS.
Thiane Dramé of Senala Keur Abdou village in Senegal's Thiaré District is a mother of seven and grandmother of four, who has become a tireless advocate for good nutrition in her community.
SPRING/Senegal recognizes the importance of hygiene in households, schools, and health centers as a key element of its multi-sectoral approach to improving the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women and children under the age of two. SPRING aims to increase awareness of good hygiene practices and influence the behavior of community members in its intervention areas.
During a community day in the village of Thiokomaty, Senegal, SPRING/Senegal and staff from local partner organization UPCL taught hygiene and handwashing at the local primary school. The local community radio station recorded the event and produced a 10-20 minute program and three short news items (below) that repeated the key handwashing behavior messages from the event to reach a wider audience.
Community radio programming using SPRING’s multi-channel approach was at the center of a recent community day in Thiarre Commune in the village of Thiokomaty, Senegal. In the morning, the SPRING/Senegal team and staff from local partner organization UPCL taught hygiene and handwashing at the local primary school.
This short video features a group of adolescent students pledging to build handwashing stations in their households. Video taken at Kodaldhoya Government Primary School, Agailjhara upazila, Barisal district.