Hoe realiseren we de meest duurzame impact en verandering? Dat is de vraag die als basis dient van ons werk. Inmiddels zijn we van een vrijwilligersorganisatie uitgegroeid tot een professionele organisatie die volledig geïntegreerde, meerjarenprogramma’s ontwikkelt in Bangladesh, Ethiopië en Nepal, en hebben we in de afgelopen vijftien jaar meer dan twee miljoen mensen bereikt.
Het gerenommeerde internationale Karolinska Institutet bevestigt het programmasucces van Max Foundation in het verminderen van ondervoeding van kinderen in Bangladesh. Het featured onderzoek, gepubliceerd in het vakblad Children, meldt een aanzienlijke impact: de ondervoeding bij kinderen halveert in slechts vier jaar tijd, wat veel sneller is dan de nationale trend.
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Local government in Bangladesh has chosen to feature 10 of Max Foundation's innovations in their "Best Practice compendium".
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Jibon is the youngest of three brothers living in the north-east of Bangladesh. His mother has her hands full running the household and looking after her children. Jibon’s father leaves the house early in the morning to seek work. As a day laborer, he has a hard time providing for his family. When his parents found out Jibon was severely stunted during a growth monitoring session, they realized they had to improve their baby’s health.
Together with other family members, they improved their hygiene habits to help Jibon grow healthy.
His mother attended courtyard sessions of the community health promoter. There she learned about good sanitation, hygiene and nutrition habits. Jibon loves to eat foods like eggs, milk, and khichuri, which have high nutritional value. Jibon’s health is gradually improving, from severely to moderately stunted, and on the right track.
Jibon’s parents saved money to build a latrine. Later on, the family invested in a handwashing device and soap. These healthy practices improved the well-being of the whole family.
Shahera Khatun is a single mother of 3 children. She also runs her own sanitation business. It requires hard labour, and is more commonly done by men.
Shahera started small a few years ago, and steadily grew her business. She now has expanded to sell a variety of sanitation and hygiene products.
Last year during COVID-19, her business suffered as people couldn’t afford to invest in sanitation. Luckily business is picking up again.
We are happy to see Shahera’s business grow!
Suisaya is in class four of the Yangsa School in Golkhali (Bangladesh). One year ago, there were no water and sanitation facilities at her school. She did not have anything to drink all day and when she had to go to the toilet, she walked into the field. As a girl, she always felt vulnerable. Max Foundation worked with school management to fix this.
Now, there is a water well in the school yard and separate latrines for girls and boys. Children at her school suffer less from diarrhoea. Hygiene education also helped: all children know to wash their hands after using the toilet.
Suisaya says with a big smile: “I wash my hands when I have visited the latrine. You get ill if you don’t. I like to wash my hands.
