Success Stories:
| Learning the importance of good nutrition | |
| Story by Plan International |
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Madhobi Rani Roy and her husband Sushil Chandra Roy live in a village of Jaldhaka Upazila (sub-district) in the northern area of Bangladesh. Like many poor Bangladeshi families, they do not have any land of their own and live in a hut built on government land. Read more… |
| Integrating community health and nutrition | |
| Story by Save the Children | |
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Each day, Afia rises early in the morning. She will visit at least five households- a long walk over the dirt paths and bamboo bridges of her village, West Rajguru, located in a remote area of southern Bangladesh’s Barisal Division. Read more… |
| Maternal undernutrition: A mother’s story | |
| Story by Plan International |
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Farida, a 23 year old Bangladeshi woman, lives with her husband and in-laws in the Bansbari village of Sreepur Upazila (sub-district) near Dhaka. Like many women in rural Bangladesh, Farida is a housewife. Married at the age of 17, Farida became pregnant within a year. During her pregnancy, Farida had no access to skilled prenatal care or education. Read more… |
| Under-nutrition progress “success story” | |
| Story from IRIN Asia | |
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NGO Action Against Hunger (ACF) in a recent report singled out Bangladesh as a “success story” in its bid to reduce child under-nutrition in the past 15 years. Government surveys showed a reduction from 1996 to 2009 in the percentage of children underweight for their age (56 to 43 percent); stunting, or short for age, (55 to 41 percent); and wasting, or underweight for height, (18 to 13 percent) – though this translated into a still high 2.1 million acutely malnourished children. Nevertheless, some notable programmes and policies are in place, according to ACF. Read more… |