Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week: Giving children the best start in life with mama’s milk

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from August 1-7 to highlight the vital role breastfeeding plays.  Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life is one of the simplest, smartest and most cost-effective ways to support children to grow healthy and strong.

This year’s theme is, ‘Breastfeeding: a winning goal for life!’ which underscores the critical link between breastfeeding and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

This linkage is...

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11 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Aug

Breastfeeding Week: success stories, challenges and policy in Tanzania

Tanzania is doing well in breast-feeding as some 97 per cent of mothers adhere to the practice. But only 50 per cent of these mothers properly breast-feed their children.

 

10 years ago

Dewji Blog

30 Apr

World Immunization Week Aims to “Close the Immunization Gap” and Provide “a Gift for Life” in Africa

Cervical cancer is the most common of all cancers in Africa

 The World Health Organization’s World Immunization Week (WIW) from 24th to 30th April this year aims to raise awareness about the importance of vaccination to people of all ages and increase rates of immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases around the world. This year WIW focuses on ‘closing the immunization gap.’ African Vaccination Week is being  celebrated under the theme “Vaccination, a gift for life”.

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11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jan

Celebrating the life and work of a master

A good art book can lead to intense internal conflict. On the one hand, the book is a work of art itself, and should be protected and cherished as such. On the other hand, one is seriously tempted to cut out each and every page, set them in frames and display them on the wall.

 

10 years ago

Food Tank (Blog)

16 Oct

Celebrating World Food Day

Food Tank (blog)
Celebrating World Food Day
Food Tank (blog)
World Food Day will mobilize action on global hunger in alignment with new Sustainable Development Goals. shutterstock. Share. Tweet. Email. Google+. LinkedIn. Stumble. Reddit. Share. Tweet. Pin. Google+. As food system leaders gather in Iowa on World ...
Forest conservators call for small-scale farming boostDaily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)
Investing in women farmers is key to zero hungerThe Hill (blog)
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11 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Jan

Benefits of giving to enrich your life

This is the first part of a series of Azim Jamal’s articles on benefits of giving. Read on: It is only in the giving that we receive. If you want happiness, give happiness. If you want wealth, give wealth. If you want love, give love.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Dec

Giving the book a new lease of life

The sound of voices mingles with a clapping of hands. At Pingo Primary, pupils, parents, invited guests and teachers join in song. It’s the climax of a month-long reading competition that has brought together five schools from Bagamoyo District.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jan

Giving children a home, family and new hope

Africa and other developing countries across the world have tremendously high rates of homeless children.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Oct

Giving children basic career guidance

You, as a parent, are the biggest influence of your child’s career choice. And this influence plays both ways: You can be such a big influence that you impose your unfulfilled career ambitions on your child.

 

9 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

22 Dec

Tanzania: Giving the Book a New Lease of Life

Tanzania: Giving the Book a New Lease of Life
AllAfrica.com
The sound of voices mingles with a clapping of hands. At Pingo Primary, pupils, parents, invited guests and teachers join in song. It's the climax of a month-long reading competition that has brought together five schools from Bagamoyo District ...

 

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