Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition

Good health and nutrition are strongly linked to resilience. People we serve need strong, resilient systems that help prevent all forms of malnutrition and deliver timely treatment and care when prevention falls short. At Food for the Hungry, we recognize that ending malnutrition in all of its forms calls for addressing systemic causes and a shared responsibility to tackle the multiple determinants of child malnutrition. To accomplish this, Food for the Hungry built community health systems that included over 5,000 care groups and trained more than half a million caregivers to affect social and behavioral changes. These addressed the beliefs, mindsets, and behaviors that are some significant root causes of poor nutrition and health status of children and mothers in the community. As a result, stunting was improved among 58,242 children aged 0-23 months. Working with both private and governmental partners, we were able to mobilize systems to drive sustainable change for children and their families.