Breastfeeding
News
SPRING/Nigeria applauds achievements and lessons learned during the project.
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Health Promotion Unit of Tash Kumyr town held an event on the importance of breastfeeding.
Location: Kyrgyz Republic
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Jalal Abad Mayor's Office held a 5K run promoting exercise, nutrition, and healthy children.
Sheema Khatun, a CNC from Bangladesh, spoke at a roundtable on the importance of breastfeeding, challenges she faced, and the vital role of CNCs.
Location: Bangladesh
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) called for raising awareness of the links between breastfeeding and the Sustainable Development goals.
SPRING collaborated with the FCT Primary Health Care Development Board to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week with a press briefing.
SPRING/Bangladesh observed World Breastfeeding Week, organizing rallies, dramas, music performances, quiz competitions, and discussions across Khulna and Barisal divisions
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic Raises Breastfeeding Awareness in Kara Kul.
Videos
Health workers convince a new mother to practice exclusive breastfeeding despite the protests of the baby's grandmother.
SPRING/Ghana developed a series of videos to facilitate counseling for infant and young child feeding. In this video, a woman demonstrates how an infant should latch on when breastfeeding.
SPRING/Bangladesh observed World Breastfeeding Week from August 1-7, 2016 by organizing over 100 rallies, quiz competitions, discussions, and several dramas and music performances in all 40...
SPRING/Ghana developed a series of videos to facilitate counseling for infant and young child feeding. In this video, a woman demonstrates how to comfortably position a nursing infant using...
Success Stories
Funded by USAID, SPRING/Ghana’s scaling up of the UNICEF infant and young child feeding (IYCF) training package in 15 districts in northern Ghana encourages early initiation of...
Location: Ghana
In May 2015, Hajiya Abdullahi, an orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) desk officer at the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development in Toto LGA attended a training on infant and...
Location: Nigeria
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.
With WhatsApp, nurses and other health workers can turn to colleagues for assistance at any time.
Location: Ghana
This success story describes how small improvements to the maternity ward at Hôpital Immaculée Conception des Cayes in southern Haiti are supporting nutrition counseling.
A farmer, David Kershima lives in Mbaiam community in Benue State. He and his wife joined a community-based infant and young child feeding (C-IYCF) support group in June 2014, when his wife...
Mary Ohamije, a community volunteer in Eror, a remote area of Nigeria, attended a three-day training on the value of C-IYCF. As a result of the training, she and her husband continue to...
Galleries
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Jalal Abad Mayor's Office held a 5K run promoting exercise, nutrition, and healthy children.
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Health Promotion Unit of Tash Kumyr town held an event on the importance of breastfeeding.
Location: Kyrgyz Republic
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) called for raising awareness of the links between breastfeeding and the Sustainable Development goals.
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,...
SPRING/Bangladesh observed World Breastfeeding Week, organizing rallies, dramas, music performances, quiz competitions, and discussions across Khulna and Barisal divisions.
SPRING/ Kyrgyz Republic Holds Community Event to Raise Breastfeeding Awareness in Kara Kul.
SPRING and Digital Green used concept testing to gather community input to nutrition and hygiene focused videos in two regions in Niger.
Location: Niger
Reports
In November 2012, SPRING and Digital Green completed a qualitative study in purposely selected villages in Keonjhar district to identify current social and cultural determinants, practices...
With this pilot project in the Maradi region of Niger, SPRING and DG evaluated whether the community video approach that was successful in India is feasible and acceptable in the resilience...
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,in providing...
Job Aids and Tools
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic developed a series of posters for use in health facilities. These four posters, produced in both Kyrgyz and Russian, are dedicated to nutrition and care of infants...