A healthy
start

for every
child.

We design evidence-based, innovative
and scalable solutions to improve child health.

Through strengthening entrepreneurs, governments
and communities, we deliver real, lasting change.

Together, we can build a healthier future
where every child has a chance to thrive.

Our impact in numbers

Scaling Healthy Villages

Ethiopia's path to ending child stunting

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Healthy Village Approach Integrated Into National Policy

Ethiopia's Ministry of Health has integrated the Healthy Village approach into its national policy framework. This is a major milestone in what system strengthening can achieve at scale.

Karolinska Validates our Impact on Child Health

The renowned international Karolinska Institutet validates our success on improving child health in Bangladesh. The study, published in the journal Children, showcases significant impact, halving undernutrition in children in just four years, much faster than the national trend.

Safe water Market Systems: what it takes to make it work

Safe water in rural Bangladesh isn’t only an access problem. It’s also a market design problem. Here’s how Max TapWater is solving it through a commercially viable social enterprise model.

Disability Inclusion: When the system sees you

How embedding disability-inclusive practice into existing child health systems — rather than running parallel programmes — creates services that reach more children and last beyond project funding.

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Building on what works

in Ethiopia’s villages

COWASH and Max Foundation have reviewed the first phase of their partnership to bring nutrition into Ethiopia’s community-managed water systems — building on what already works, rather than running parallel programmes, and generating evidence for national scale through the Seqota Declaration.

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Impact Report 2025: Scaling What Lasts. Read more on how our child-health work is taking root in government systems in Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Nepal.

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Healthy Village

Nepal

Max Foundation is running a 4-year health programme in rural Nepal, targeting 19,200 people across 5,400 households. It aims to reduce child stunting from 35% to 25% by 2029 through nutrition, WASH, and community-led health initiatives.

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