By: Lon Loeurt

Lucia and her father Rozalio planting potato seedlings, after receiving agricultural training from World Vision. Photo by Wezzie Banda

The Global Health Nutrition and HIV Community of Practice gathered on 17 March 2017 to discuss the lessons learned collected in two new research reports:

Twenty-seven year-old Mariatu Found hope in United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s)  Emergency Food Security Programme (EFSP) supported by the Government and people of America through their implementing partners— World Vision, in Sierra Leone.

More than half a million refugee children facing urgent physical and psychological needs are living in appalling conditions in Bangladesh. Children have witnessed and fled extreme violence and need special care and protection. Most children fleeing Myanmar have had terrifying experiences.

Femi is 10 years old now and lately started to walk a few steps holding his mother's steps. The physiotherapist tought Valentina some excercises, so Femi could have the possibility to practice every day.

Rice farmers in the path of Typhoon Maysak are quickly storing their harvest before threatening winds and rain reach the Philippines. 

Inside of a tiny, single room mud house in Herat province, Salima, mother of five, can hardly believe that she had to leave everything behind, from kitchen supplies to bedding, in Ghor province eight months ago.

How do you solve malnutrition? Programmes like kitchen gardens, Mother’s Clubs, and health training.