Success Stories
Solutions to prevent and treat undernutrition already exist. Every day, 1,000 Days partners are putting proven solutions into action in communities around the world. By working in alignment with the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Framework, 1,000 Days partners join a movement to work across sectors and specialties to achieve better nutrition results.
By prioritizing proven nutrition solutions, progress is being made and lives are being changed for the better. Strong nutrition programs, sound policies and better investments can make a difference in the lives of mothers and children today in a way that dramatically improves the health and well-being of future generations of individuals, families and communities.
How a CRS Program Drastically Reduced Child Malnutrition in Southern Haiti
Since the start of a Catholic Relief Services nutrition program in southern Haiti, the child malnutrition rate in targeted communities has been reduced from 30 percent to 3 percent. The “Maternal and Child Health Nutrition Program” (MCHN) works with a network of community volunteers and takes an integrated approach to set up rally posts, strengthen health centers and create mothers’ clubs. The video below tells the story. For more information, visit the MCHN page. Originally published by Catholic…
Building Advocacy for Community Nutrition in Guatemala
Alejandro Chilisná Botón is a trained community health facilitator and advocate for integrated care of women and children in the community. He is also a councilman in the Guatemalan municipality of Cunén, Quiché, where he works on budget approval and helps decide government community development priorities. Chilisná works to ensure that nutrition interventions are a priority for his region: “a community cannot escape poverty if its residents are not well-nourished. That is the basis for…
Ethiopia Community-Based Nutrition Program Helps Reduce Child Malnutrition
A “model mother” from Gelsha kebele (village) in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, Zenitu Sheperaw is 24 years old with two young children. Her first child was often sick and crying at night as an infant, but after learning about better feeding practices, Zenitu has changed the way she feeds her second baby, now seven months old and doing very well. “Now with this child, I can sleep well because he is not sick,” Zenitu says. “I gave him…
Capacity building for improved nutrition
Helen Keller International’s YALLANDO KLEYA Child Survival Project (2004-2009) was implemented in the Diffa Region of the eastern part of Niger, an isolated part of the country with extremely high levels of under-five mortality and child undernutrition, and very little government and NGO assistance. With support from USAID, HKI built the capacity of health centers and community women’s groups to deliver the Essential Nutrition Actions – a core package of high-impact nutrition-related interventions reinforced with…
Malnutrition is Treatable: Access to Nutrition Services Saves the Life of a Ugandan Child
When 7-month-old Frank arrived at the Rubaga Hospital in Uganda in 2010, he was severely malnourished, weighing only 7.5 pounds. Frank was being raised by his grandmother, who had less than $1 a week to feed and clothe Frank and his 4 siblings. A community health volunteer, one of 1,200 volunteers trained to identify malnourished children by the USAID-funded NuLife – Food and Nutrition Interventions for Uganda project, referred Frank for care at the Rubaga…
