From Salty Snacks to Fresh Food
As a volunteer, Nazira spends several hours a week visiting neighbors and hosting meetings to talk about nutrition based on what she learned from SPRING.
Breastfeeding
“Smart” Support for Better Nutrition
With WhatsApp, nurses and other health workers can turn to colleagues for assistance at any time.
Spring/Digital Green Collaboration and Feasibility Study
This report documents outcomes of a qualitative study conducted in 2012. It was originally intended to be a process document for internal use only.
Nutrition and Care of Infants and Young Children Facility Tools
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic developed a series of posters for use in health facilities.
SPRING/Digital Green Collaboration Progress Report
Filming the community video “A Good Start to Exclusive Breastfeeding” in the village of Halbawa Salifou in Guidan Roumdji, Maradi, Niger Photo credit: Peggy Koniz-Booher, SPRING
SPRING is a USAID-funded five-year project committed to reducing anemia and stunting among women and young children through the expansion of effective social and behavior change communication (SBCC) nutrit
Community Nutrition Champion Speaks at a High-Level Roundtable on the Importance of Breastfeeding
On August 18, 2016, SPRING/Bangladesh participated in a roundtable discussion entitled “Protecting and Promoting Breastfeeding: Challenges and Opportunities to Implement the Breast Milk Substitutes (BMS) Act 2013.” The event was organized by three USAID-funded projects—SPRING, MaMoni, and SHIKHA—and was co-hosted by Kaler Kantho newspaper and the Government of Bangladesh.
Informing Video Topics and Content on Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition and Handwashing
Photo credit: Marjolein Moreaux, SPRING
In 2013, the USAID Global Health Bureau asked the SPRING project to collaborate with the Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel–Enhanced Resilience (REGIS-ER) project,1 in providing support for maternal, infant and young child nutrition
In Pictures: SPRING/Uganda Celebrates World Breastfeeding Week 2016
SPRING/Uganda celebrated WBW by working with the Ministry of Health to organize several activities at the national level to spread key messages on breastfeeding and nutrition in general.
SPRING/Uganda Celebrates World Breastfeeding Week 2016
Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) started WBW in 1992 with the vision of a world where breastfeeding is the cultural norm.
This year’s theme—“Breastfeeding: Key to Sustainable Development”—was a reminder to the commitment Uganda made towards contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Photos of SPRING/Nigeria Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week 2016
World Breastfeeding Week 2016 was celebrated in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria with a press briefing event that brought together representatives from different media outfits, including Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) and Vision FM, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Budget and Planning, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Save the Children International, SPRING, Society for Family Health, and other nongovernmental organizations, to sensitize the public on the importance of breastfeeding.