A healthy
start

for every
child.

Safe water, sanitation and hygiene, nutrition and care.
Key components for a healthy start in life.

Our innovative solutions are locally driven, for long-lasting impact.

We strive for efficiency and partnership. Together, we can ensure a healthy start for every child.

Our impact in numbers

Our Healthy Village approach

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Integrating for stunting impact - academic longread

The Healthy Village approach combines WASH with food & nutrition security and care to improve child health. In our programme areas in Southern Bangladesh, stunting rates halved from 51% to 25%.

The WASH & Nutrition Nexus

When we would scale up nutrition-specific interventions, research suggests that the prevalence of childhood stunting, also known as chronic undernutrition, can be reduced by 20% (1). Even though this reduction of 20% means that 33 million children will be prevented from being stunted, it also means that in 80% of the stunted cases, an exclusive focus on nutrition only is not enough.

Max Payment-by-Results

Shifting away from traditional input-based payments, Max Payment-by-Results (MaxPbR) links payments to our implementation partners to predefined results.

Our innovations

Innovation is part of our DNA. We find ways to do good better, for us and others. The Healthy Village approach is not the only example. Here are some others!

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Scientific Study: Max Foundation

Halves Child Undernutrition

The renowned international Karolinska Institutet validates Max Foundation's programme success on improving child undernutrition in Bangladesh. The featured study, published in the journal Children, showcases significant impact, halving undernutrition in children in just four years, which is much faster than the national trend.

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20th anniversary

royal distinction for our founders

On the 21st of March we celebrated 20 years of Max Foundation, and the mayor of Bloemendaal surprised our founders Joke and Steven Le Poole with a royal distinction.

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Climate Resilience

Learning workshop Ethiopia

At the beginning of November 2023, we hosted our first learning workshop on Climate Change Resilience in Ethiopia, together with Plan International. Read our learnings here!

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