Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health

An integrated model for eliminating childhood malnutrition in rural Uganda will be implemented by in Luuka District, Eastern Uganda. A food product made from locally available food will daily enrich the children's diet. Successful project results will be translated into the Uganda food and nutrition policy.

We bring home to Western Kenya an integrated innovation for food-fuel-and-income-security, fine-tuned in villages of Eastern India. Struggling grandmothers and their orphaned grandchildren mechanize their agriculture with self-made bio-fuel. Result: More food, less malnourishment, and Health.

If a child is malnourished during the first 2 years of life, the child's physical and mental development will be slowed to such an extent that no correction is possible even when the child eventually grows older. This project explores the possibility of empowering local grocers to select and provide 3 meals per day to children less than 2 years and also to all lactating mothers in their own communities.

Malnutrition, which affects over 230 million Africans, is attributed in part to a lack of trust in, and access to critical information about, new agricultural technologies, development programs and sustainable practices, and low farmer participation in the innovation process. A mobile application developed in Kenya and Nigeria to address the problem of malnutrition by linking farmers with key players in the agricultural sector, in order to facilitate access to relevant information that will improve crop yields, intake of nutritious crops and, ultimately, enhance rural livelihoods.

Is there a chance kids could snack their way to good health? This project is developing snacks fortified with iron-rich rice bran, an abundant by-product of rice processing typically discarded, burned, fed to animals or turned into cooking oil. The project will engage local expertise in food and chemistry, and capitalize on the "culture of snacking" in the Philippines, a country where iron deficiency affects 70% of children, leading to anemia and other debilitating conditions.

Our project will help solve the problem of malnutrition among vulnerable people through nutrition and hygiene skills development. It will use positive deviance hearth approach and growth monitoring which will stand as evidence based to scale up to large number of beneficiaries. It will be implemented in Caritas, Rwanda, targeting poor and vulnerable people in the rural area.

The medical tool to be developed within the MicroScreen Project will help to improve the quality of life of the people, especially of mothers and young children and the therapy of critical ill patients in low-resource environments.

We aim to develop a diagnostic tool using molecular approaches, that can quickly and accurately identify children with SAM, who are susceptible to an increased risk of death from infection after apparent stabilization during treatment for SAM.

By developing a local nutritional supplement, along with a rewards system to incentivize companies to pay for and sustain its production and free distribution, this project will improve nutritional status among children ages six months to five years in slums.

Poor sanitation poses a major health threat. Human excreta released into the environment without treatment causes illness and death. Every 15 seconds, a child dies due to contaminated water from human feces, with the situation being the worst in urban slums. Peepoople is rethinking sanitation with the design of a personal, self-sanitising and fully biodegradable toilet that prevents feces from contaminating the immediate area, as well as the surrounding ecosystem. After use, Peepoo turns human waste into valuable fertiliser that can improve livelihoods and increase food security.