Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week
This week is World Breastfeeding Week, a time to focus global attention and galvanize collective action to educate, promote, and support breastfeeding across all aspects of society. This year’s theme, Enabling Breastfeeding: Making a difference for working parents, seeks to highlight and address workplace barriers that make it difficult for women to meet their breastfeeding goals. […]
Nutrition Training Saves the Lives of New Mothers
After fleeing violence in South Sudan as a refugee, Sharon found herself about to begin another life-changing journey: becoming a new mother. And although Sharon’s pregnancy was filled with all the joy and excitement that comes with bringing a new life into the world, dangers abounded, too. Living in extreme poverty in the Palabek Refugee […]
How a Refugee Mom Left Handouts Behind
Adiye is a 45-year-old single mother of five daughters, who lived a life dependent on handouts. She’s a refugee from South Sudan, now living in northern Uganda. The conflict and violence in South Sudan have taken a terrible toll on so many aspects of life for children and their parents. Schooling ceased far too early; […]