Max Foundation Ethiopia is partnering with COWASH IV to integrate Healthy Village nutrition approaches into existing community-managed water systems by building on what works rather than creating parallel programmes, while generating evidence for national scale through Ethiopia's Seqota Declaration.
Read the full reportAs Right2Grow begins wrapping up five years of work, the programme's legacy of community-driven change is just beginning.
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Max Foundation Bangladesh brought together over a hundred stakeholders to unlock the potential of rural entrepreneurs towards driving health solutions.
Read the full reportWe are excited to announce the launch of a new free online course, WASH and Nutrition Nexus: The Basics, developed with IRC’s WASH Systems Academy and a consortium of dedicated organisations.*
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2024 was a pivotal year for Max Foundation. We celebrated 20 years of working to ensure every child gets a healthy start in life. It was a milestone year, one in which we further deepened our focus on accelerating impact through evidence and innovation.
Read the full reportA recent Linking and Learning Event brought together key stakeholders to accelerate progress toward the ambitious goals of the Seqota Declaration, The Government of Ethiopia's commitment to ending child stunting.
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Real, lasting change happens when communities, governments, and the private sector come together. That belief was at the heart of our recent Healthy Village Experience event in Ethiopia—a dynamic and interactive gathering that showcased how a holistic, evidence-driven approach can transform child health outcomes.
Read the full reportWe're excited to announce a new partnership between Waterlife and Max Foundation that will transform access to clean drinking water across Ethiopia.
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The Healthy Village Urban Programme in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh, successfully engaged over 3,000 community members through interactive initiatives, including a village fair, to promote improved hygiene and nutrition practices.
Read the full reportThe 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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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.
Read the full reportAt 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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Find the official press release from Grand Challenges Canada about Max Foundation's winning of the Rotman Innovation of the Year Award here!
Read the full reportMax Foundation is looking for partner NGOs in Burundi, to implement the innovative Healthy and Resilient Collines programme.
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We are very happy to share our Impact Report 2022 with you! In this report we explain why and how our approach to child health works.
Read the full reportRecently, our Data and Monitoring expert Remco Geervliet visited our programme areas in Ethiopia, joining the Ethiopia team and partner organisations in a joint supportive supervision visit.
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On March 15th, 2023, the official inauguration of Max TapWater took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh! Max TapWater provides safe, affordable tapwater to households through mini piped water grids.
Read the full reportDuring World Water Week in August, we were in Stockholm hosting three presentations on the impact of our integrated approach.
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Click on the image below to go straight to our impact longread! In it, we explain how the Healthy Village approach made a 50% decrease in stunting possible in our programme areas, as well as why this is so cost-effective, and more.
Read the full reportExciting news: we have an (almost) entirely new Max Foundation board for the upcoming years! We'd love to introduce them to you. Below you can find a little description of each boardmember, alongside their photo. Want to get in touch? Head over to the 'our team' section of our website to find their details.
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Max Foundation Bangladesh started 2022 with a bang: with three television appearances on the popular programmes ATN News Hour Extra and Connect Bangladesh.
Read the full reportThis World Food Day, our consortium Right2Grow will be hosting the World Food Day Show at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. Join us!
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We hereby sadly inform on the unfortunate and sudden passing of Mr. Alamgir Chowdhury, the Training and Capacity Building Manager of Max Foundation Bangladesh.
Read the full reportLocal government in Bangladesh has chosen to feature 10 of Max Foundation's innovations in their "Best Practice compendium".
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In October, district level government officials visited a declared Healthy Village in Satkhira district in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi Newspaper 'The Editor' wrote an article about it! Read the translation below.
Read the full reportRead updates from the last couple of months - such as the Right2Grow launch in Ethiopia - as well as some exciting steps for 2022, like bringing our Social Enterprise Max TapWater to the next level.
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Max Foundation Bangladesh wins a prestigious award at the Project Management Symposium and Excellence Awards for the Healthy Village Programme.
Read the full reportRead all about the South2 South learning sessions we've been having for our Healthy Village Approach, updates on some of the events we presented at over the summer, an introduction to the full team in Ethiopia, and more.
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After signing the agreements, Max Foundation Ethiopia and Plan International now officially launched the Healthy Village Programme in Ethiopia on the 29th of May!
Read the full report<strong>Click on the image to go straight to our introductory two-pager!</strong> Find out more about how we work, our programmes and approaches, and our impact.
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Find the official announcement of the Healhty Village Programme Ethiopia developed by Max Foundation and Plan International Netherlands here.
Read the full reportMax Foundation's co-founder, Joke Le Poole, was recently featured on The Female Founders Network podcast!
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Max Foundation is proud to announce that we have been selected to join the Million Lives Club
Read the full reportMeet Champa Begum who has started to cultivate a homestead garden full of nutricious foods - for her and her family to eat, but also to sell at the local market
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Riad Mahmud, Max Foundation Bangladesh Director, was interviewed by Joep Janssen from the Nextblue platform
Read the full reportOur Impact Report 2019 is out! Read all about last years highlights, and the impact we've made, right here
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Max Foundation's business spin-off Max TapWater wins the national nomination for the Energy Globe Award
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