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...
“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...
Safe Feeding In Zambia20220304135559
Safe Feeding In Zambia
March 4, 2022caregivers, children, disabilities, nutrition, program, programs, spoon blog, Zambia0 comments
In 2021, SPOON mentored Kate Fairchild as she completed a capstone project for her Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Saint Catherine University. ...
SPOON Partner Profile: Meet Mulemba20210615172042
SPOON Partner Profile: Meet Mulemba
June 15, 2021accessibility, advocacy, alternate care, feature, leadership, partner profile, response, spoon blog, stories, Zambia0 comments
Mulemba Ndonji is a Program Officer with Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) Zambia. Since 2018, CMMB and SPOON have been implementing a project foc...
Success in Zambia: Local Leadership Yields Results20210513183247
Success in Zambia: Local Leadership Yields Results
May 13, 2021accessibility, advocacy, alternate care, caregivers, children, feature, leadership, programs, response, Zambia0 comments
This year, SPOON has seen dramatic growth in the number of children entered and assessed in our app, Count Me In. Much of this growth has come from Za...
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...
Zambia Health Impact Assessment – COVID Effect & Response20210125142526
Zambia Health Impact Assessment – COVID Effect & Response
January 25, 2021advocacy, COVID, leadership, programs, progress, research, resources, response, Zambia0 comments
Protecting The Most VulnerableSPOON has been working with all of our global partners to adapt pandemic protective measures to the care of the children...
Baby Miracle’s Story20200727181944
Baby Miracle’s Story
July 27, 2020accessibility, caregivers, leadership, learning, progress, resources, response, stories, training, Zambia0 comments
"In 2019, members of SPOON’s Board of Trustees traveled to Zambia to see our curriculum and tools being put to work by those we have empowered. malesu...
