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  • Hunger and malnutrition are increasing, but a group is turning the tide

    January 11, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ayobo, Lagos

    The Lagos Food Bank Initiative works to address hunger and malnutrition among those in need and reduce food waste. It offers several programs including temporary food assistance, nutritious meal interventions, and family farming among others. Since it was founded in 2016, the organization has expanded its efforts and now has 17,000 volunteers across the country and has helped more than two million people.

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  • Cooking class series encourages friendship & healthy eating for seniors

    December 18, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The Idea Works Entrepreneurs Kitchen is a commercial kitchen co-working space that hosts a series of classes to teach seniors how to cook. With the help of grant money, the classes help combat social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, while also helping seniors learn new skills and improve their nutrition.

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  • Medicaid Is a New Tool to Expand Healthy Food Access

    December 15, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Project Bread is a local food-assistance organization that provides medically-tailored meals to people in need, specifically those with diseases or ailments that worsen with poor nutrition. Organization coordinators can send grocery store gift cards and kitchen supplies or sign the patient up for cooking classes or nutrition counseling. In its first two years, the program served 5,000 patients, and a recent evaluation found that 25% were no longer food insecure after participating for six months.

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  • At This Grocery Store, Shoppers Pay What They Wish

    November 18, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    MARSH Grocery is a food cooperative with urban farm lots, an online catalog, a delivery program, a commercial kitchen, and a grocery store in which people can pay the amount on the sticker, 20% more, or 20% less. The cooperative is not quite profitable but is growing its customer base in a St. Louis neighborhood that previously lacked access to affordable, healthy food.

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  • Rwanda: Kitchen Gardens Tackling Malnutrition, One Community at a Time

    November 09, 2022 |

    The Bridge Magazine |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    CorpsAfrica gathers volunteers to train community members on how to construct and maintain a kitchen garden, full of a variety of vegetables, to provide families with nutritious food. Volunteers conduct door-to-door education campaigns and offer support to those starting their gardens. As of May 2020, the organization had helped create 760 kitchen gardens in an effort to fight malnutrition-related diseases and boost food security in the region.

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  • Kids' health is impacted most by life outside a doctor's office, so Children's Hospital is treating social-economic wellness, too

    October 31, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado

    The Resource Connect program began in 2019 and works to connect families with children in need with necessary resources like food, diapers, and school supplies. The point is to address the factors outside the doctor’s office that affect children’s health. In the three years since it opened, Resource Connect has helped 4,235 patients get social services.

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  • Hydroponics Help Urban Schools Grow Food Year-Round

    September 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Middle and high schools around the country are embracing hydroponic farming. Hydroponics serves as an appealing, interdisciplinary teaching tool and a way to produce fresh, healthy food for students at school and within their communities. Several companies and startups, like Freight Farms, provide the resources for hydroponics farming to schools, with 16 K-12 schools currently using the technology.

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  • Paying attention: Boston hospital helps breastfeeding Black moms, babies thrive

    September 12, 2022 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative provides a 10-step approach to hospital-based breastfeeding support in an effort to increase breastfeeding rates and reduce the racial disparities Black women often face during breastfeeding initiation. Breastfeeding has been shown to have a significant impact on a baby and mother’s health outcomes and the breastfeeding medicine clinic is available to anyone who is interested, including Medicaid patients who wouldn’t be able to afford the services otherwise.

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  • Doctors use a new approach to treat obesity

    September 01, 2022 |

    WEWS-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Elyria, Ohio

    Some medical professionals are revising the way they address obesity and treat patients with the disease by addressing stigma and prescribing new anti-obesity medications. These new medications yield 15% to 20% weight loss over six months or longer, compared to their less effective counterparts.

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  • SPECIAL REPORT: Facing high wheat prices, Nigerian bakers turn to potato puree

    July 14, 2022 |

    Premium Times |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Bakers in Nigeria make bread with orange-fleshed sweet potatoes to help offset the growing cost of producing bread with just wheat flour.

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