Every hour, two Ghanaian children die from nutrition-related causes, deaths that are entirely preventable with the right investments. Yet, nutrition continues to receive less than 0.4% of Ghana’s health budget. As donor funding declines, the future of maternal and child nutrition in Ghana hangs in the balance. The first 1,000 days of life, thus, from…
As part of activities under the Nourish Ghana Project, a media engagement segment was featured on the Breakfast Show on Ghana Television (GTV) to spotlight the critical issue of malnutrition in Ghana and the transformative role the media can play in addressing it. Representing Women, Media and Change (WOMEC) on the program was Ms. Rebbeca…
Ghana’s fight against malnutrition is no longer an abstract policy debate, it is about the height of the child in Tamale whose growth has stalled, the anaemic mother in Mamprobi who struggles through her market day, and the fast-growing tide of obesity that sneaks up on urban families. Recognising this urgency, WOMEC, backed by the…