The Nutrition Club Approach: Community Mobilisation to Prevent Child Malnutrition

World Vision Vietnam’s Nutrition Clubs provide a sustainable, community-based forum for multi-sectoral action to address childhood undernutrition. Mothers who are pregnant or have young children gather twice each month at the village level to discuss their experiences and learn better practices in child care, feeding, health, sanitation, gardening and small livestock raising. Nutrition Club meetings are facilitated by a trained community worker. Children’s growth is monitored monthly during Nutrition Club meetings. Home visits to families with malnourished children help reinforce new practices and provide early identification of severe malnutrition.