Maternal Support Grant: It’s social justice

The Learning Lunch podcast explores ideas, approaches and social innovations – creating opportunity for non-profit organisations’ teams to discover what others are learning and space to reflect on what these insights might mean for their own strategy and programme implementation. Download takeaway instructions What comes to mind when you hear the term ‘social protection’? For […]

ENCA Interview: Pilot programme to support the nutrition of pregnant women

The Western Cape Health Department, in partnership with the DGMT, is running a maternal support programme focused on underweight, at-risk pregnant women and new mothers of low birth weight babies. Read more about the pilot here. David Harrison, CEO of the DG Murray Trust, spoke to ENCA. Watch the interview below.

Op-ed: Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures: Tackling South Africa’s stunting crisis through maternal support grants

This year’s World Health Day theme, Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures, challenges us to ask: Are we giving our children the foundation they need to thrive? One way to answer this is by looking at South Africa’s stubbornly high stunting rate — a powerful population-based indicator of chronic malnutrition among children under five that measures height for age. […]