Research drives action for inclusive nutrition in Zambia20250305112510
Research drives action for inclusive nutrition in Zambia
Globally, children with disabilities and children without family care are more likely to be malnourished and less likely to get the nutrition and feed...
SPOON and Partners Highlight Needs of Vulnerable Children by Publishing New Research20240924093959
SPOON and Partners Highlight Needs of Vulnerable Children by Publishing New Research
A journal article from SPOON and our partners provides new insights on rates of malnutrition among children in residential care institutions in Zambia...
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...
SPOON Wins Zero Project Award for Advocating for People with Disabilities20231205142326
SPOON Wins Zero Project Award for Advocating for People with Disabilities
December 5, 20232024, advocacy, award, children, conference, Count Me In, disabilities, disability, education, inclusion, inclusive, inclusive education, innovation, innovative, leadership, malnutrition, nutrition, policies, policy, project, rights, Thought Leadership, zero, zero project0 comments
SPOON is thrilled to announce that we are a recipient of the 2024 Zero Project Award.The Zero Project is an initiative that finds and shares solutions...
Improving Support for Children with Disabilities with Count Me In+20230618025120
Improving Support for Children with Disabilities with Count Me In+
June 18, 2023advocacy, app, caregivers, children, Count Me In, digital health app, disabilities, disability, families, feeding, malnutrition, nutrition, technology0 comments
SPOON is redesigning our digital health app, Count Me In. This new version, called Count Me In+, will allow SPOON to improve our support for children ...
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...
SPOON Partner Profile: Meet Nikolina20230125164901
SPOON Partner Profile: Meet Nikolina
January 25, 2023advocacy, caregivers, children, collaboration, confidence, Count Me In, croatia, disabilities, disability, feeding, inclusion, learning, malnutrition, nutrition, partner, partner profile, partnership, peer trainer, perkins, trainer, training0 comments
Meet Nikolina Juric, Program Manager for Europe and Eurasia at Perkins International and SPOON Peer Trainer in Croatia. Beginning in 2022, SPOON partn...
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...
