Changing Systems to Realize the Rights of Children with Disabilities20240308141142
Changing Systems to Realize the Rights of Children with Disabilities
March 8, 2024advocacy, award, child, children, collaboration, conference, conferences, Count Me In, disabilities, disability, inclusion, leadership, learning, nutrition, presentation, rights, spoon blog, SPOON in the News, systems, systems change, Thought Leadership, UN, united nations, winner, zero project0 comments
Ending inequalities in nutrition will require transforming systems so that every child has the support they need to grow and thrive. SPOON’s work comb...
Child Health Task Force: SPOON Promotes Disability-inclusive Nutrition20230618020340
Child Health Task Force: SPOON Promotes Disability-inclusive Nutrition
June 18, 2023Access to Health, advocacy, ARU, ARU-CCCU, caregivers, Child Health Task Force, children, collaboration, conference, Count Me In, disabilities, disability, leadership, learning, Lesotho, LNFOD, malnutrition, nutrition, partner, partnership, policy, presentation, SDG, spoon blog, Thought Leadership, Uganda, Zambia0 comments
At the 2023 Child Health Task Force conference, Accelerating progress towards the 2030 SDGs: reducing inequities in child health, program practitioner...
Expanding our Impact in Uganda20230331145829
Expanding our Impact in Uganda
March 31, 2023advocacy, ARU, care, care reform, caregiver, caregivers, child, children, community, Count Me In, disabilities, disability, families, family, family care, feeding, impact, Master Trainer, nutrition, partner, partnership, programs, support, training, Uganda0 comments
SPOON has been working in Uganda since 2016 in partnership with the Association of Religious through their Catholic Care for Children Uganda (ARU-CCCU...
“Care Reform”: Helping Families Stay Together20230221114230
“Care Reform”: Helping Families Stay Together
February 21, 2023advocacy, alternative care, care, care reform, caregivers, children, deinstitutionalization, families, family, family care, feeding, nutrition, reform, Uganda, Zambia0 comments
SPOON focuses on meeting the nutrition and feeding needs of children with disabilities and children without family care, but we know that nutrition an...
The Needs of 250 Million Children are Not ‘Niche’20220712164317
The Needs of 250 Million Children are Not ‘Niche’
July 12, 2022advocacy, alternative care, children, COVID, disabilities, disability, malnutrition, nutrition, policy, research, residential care0 comments
SPOON serves two groups of children who face some of the highest rates of malnutrition: children with disabilities and children without family care (i...
Strength in Numbers: Why Data Matter to Nourish All Children20220121154728
Strength in Numbers: Why Data Matter to Nourish All Children
January 21, 2022advocacy, children, data, disabilities, disability, nutrition, policy, research, resources, Thought Leadership0 comments
More than 250 million children worldwide have disabilities or are living without family care. These groups of children are at very high risk of malnut...
Promoting Nutrition and Disability Inclusion to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child20210915120007
Promoting Nutrition and Disability Inclusion to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
September 15, 2021children, leadership, programs, progress, research, resources, response, Thought Leadership, UNICEF0 comments
Promoting children's rights to nutrition and family careEvery child has the right to good health and to grow up in family care, and these rights are a...
The Other Pandemic20210826115645
The Other Pandemic
August 26, 2021children, COVID, disabilities, feature, nutrition, program, progress, research, resources, response0 comments
A recent study published in The Lancet shed light on a tragic and irreversible impact of the global pandemic. The study estimates that, as of April 20...
One Year Later: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Nutrition20210421062520
One Year Later: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Nutrition
April 21, 2021advocacy, Belarus, COVID, disabilities, Haiti, research, resources, training, UNICEF, Zambia0 comments
As we mark more than one year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, SPOON is reflecting on the impact of the pandemic for children with disab...
Global Child Thrive Act Supports Early Opportunities for ALL Children20210208132445
Global Child Thrive Act Supports Early Opportunities for ALL Children
February 8, 2021accessibility, advocacy, children, disabilities, No Family Care, nutrition, rescuers, response, SPOON in the News, stories0 comments
SPOON is celebrating the passage of the Global Child Thrive Act. This new legislation will ensure US foreign assistance programs provide children with...
