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Digital food vouchers offered to South African women during pregnancy have been found to have a statistically significant positive impact…
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Grow Great releases CoCare Maternal Support Study
Grow Great released findings of a study conducted on the impact of COVID-19 on the nutrition and mental health of…
Maternal Support Grant Petition
Prior to COVID-19, many South African households were already burdened with high levels of malnutrition. But then the pandemic came,…
Grow Great calls on food manufacturers, wholesalers & retailers to ramp up the affordability of a “Solidarity Basket” of nutritious foods.
The Grow Great campaign commends the president for taking bold & decisive action to address the widespread hunger witnessed across…
SA is food secure but millions of children are stunted
If it is true that we are what we eat, then we South Africans need to take a long, hard…
The workforce that makes our health system work
Among South Africa’s everyday heroes are community health workers, a largely unrecognised but critical workforce that takes primary healthcare to…
Please address the issue of stunted children in your SONA speech, Mr President
Stunting, a completely preventable condition that results from prolonged under-nutrition in pregnancy and the early years of a child’s life,…
Minister urged to extend the child support grant to pregnancy
Much of the vulnerability to stunting begins during pregnancy and in the first few years of life, when most brain…
Class of 2018: We shortchanged a quarter of them a long, long time ago
Around the time the matric class of 2018 was in grade one, an estimated one in four children under the…
Political parties fail to address nutritional stunting
With less than two months before the general elections, all the major political parties — the ANC, the Democratic Alliance,…
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