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Health, Nutrition & Food Security

September 13, 2024

Enhancing Nutrition Knowledge among Community Educators in Ethnic Minority Communities

December 1, 2023

Cháo – A quick and easy porridge made from locally sourced ingredients helps to promote nutrition in Son La, Vietnam

There is often a lack of knowledge and awareness about good nutrition and its impact on health. In this context, food demonstrations are a way to educate and empower individuals and communities.

April 21, 2021

Dissemination Workshop for the Strengthening Health Systems and Improving Nutrition in Vietnam project

HealthBridge and partners completed the project: Strengthening health systems and improving nutrition in Vietnam. The project aimed to improve health outcomes of mothers and children under-two in two districts of Son La Province Vietnam. The project sought to build capacity to deliver quality health services and improve care-seeking, health and nutrition practices in the local communities.

February 19, 2021

Advocating for the establishment of a Health Promotion Foundation in Bangladesh

August 12, 2020

The Importance of the Kitchen Garden

November 10, 2017

Intervention finds raising chickens increases egg consumption

The findings from a HealthBridge Foundation of Canada and Centro de Comunicación y Desarrollo Andino (CENDA)-led nutrition-sensitive agricultural intervention reveal that increased chicken rearing can lead to increased egg consumption—which can lead to improved household nutrition.

January 19, 2016

From Field to Fork

The IDRC-supported project, Nutrition and food security in uplands of Vietnam and Thailand, aimed to identify local and practical solutions to improve nutrition and food security of smallholder farmers using “nutrition-sensitive agriculture” (NSA). NSA means that we focus not only on the production of more food, but also the nutritional quality of the food, and what the farmers do with the food.

October 1, 2014

Improved farming, healthier families in Bolivia

Through some good planning, a lot of hard work and a bit of luck, we helped about 500 families in the highlands of Bolivia to improve their diets.