In support of Ghana Health Service’s and SPRING’s major commitment to expand training and community support for improved infant and young child care and feeding across northern Ghana, SPRING adapted parts o
As part of a strategy to effectively reach and support busy urban communities, the SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic project has launched a Facebook page, with plans to reach people in-country through other platforms. This page will be used as a platform to learn more about the SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic program and activities as well as a space to encourage better nutrition practices among the Kyrgyz people.
Since 2012, SPRING/Nigeria has worked with 5 PEPFAR implementing partners (STEER, SMILE, ARFH, HIFAS, and WEWE) and civil society organizations (CSO) to roll out th
US Ambassador Sheila Gwaltney visited SPRING/Kyrgyzstan program working to improve nutrition outcomes among women and children in Naryn Oblast.
US Ambassador Sheila Gwaltney visited the USAID-funded SPRING project in the Naryn Oblast of Kyrgyz Republic on June 8th and 9th.
On June 8th, Ambassador Gwaltney toured a SPRING-supported district hospital that provides maternal and child nutrition services to 68 thousand people, and met with new mothers receiving important counseling regarding the nutrition of their babies.
The SPRING/Senegal team visited the project’s community radio partners in the Kaolack, Kaffrine, and Fatick regions. Discussions focused on radio’s role in disseminating SPRING’s nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive messages, as well as devising reliable methods for estimating the geographic coverage and the size of the audience reached with radio broadcasts.
The U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, took an informative tour of the community-based health planning and services (CHPS) compound in Kasuliyili of the Tolon District in the Northern Region on March 31, 2016. This was the Ambassador’s first visit to northern Ghana where there are major U.S. Government-funded projects in agriculture and nutrition under the Feed the Future initiative. Dr.
Ms. Melissa Jones, director of the Office of Population, Health, Nutrition, and Education at USAID Bangladesh, and other representatives from the Mission visited a community clinic in Abhaynagar upazila on Thursday, February 25.
SPRING supported the development and finalization of the National Technical Guideline on Anemia Prevention and Treatment and subsequent protocols.