2020 Grow Great Journalist of the Year submissions now open
Grow Great, a campaign with the aim to galvanise South Africa towards a national commitment to achieving zero stunting by 2030, is calling for submissions for its annual Grow Great Journalist of the Year awards. The competition that is now running for the 2nd year...
Flourish Mom – Patricia Stoffels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onPDO68uUoI
Our Heroes From The Field Sheila Khoza- CHW, Magudu- Nkomazi
“Asiyibambeni singayi yekeli, size sifike ekugcineni. Ngithi asiyeni phambili!” (let’s persevere until the end, let’s move forward). I wasn’t sure whether I’d wanted to be part of the screening campaign at first, but I...
Sabelo Magagula wins the 2020 Grow Great Dads! Challenge
Sabelo Magagula won the Grow Great Dads Challenge that was aired on YFM from 2- 23 June 2020. Magagula won every single week’s challenge and the R10 000 grand prize. The Grow Great team caught up with the 24-year-old father to find out how he managed to win the...
COVID19 FAQs for mothers
What’s different for pregnant and postnatal women in the time of COVID-19? The symptoms and signs of COVID-19 are the same in pregnant women as the general public. Everyone should take care to avoid infection or infecting others. You help protect yourself by: as often...
Reflecting on Flourish
This mother’s month, I have been reflecting on how exceptionally fortunate I am to be part of the Flourish community, a network of women committed to supporting, empowering and celebrating one another through the first thousand days of their children’s lives. In my...
Grow Great calls on food manufacturers, wholesalers & retailers to ramp up the affordability of a “Solidarity Basket” of nutritious foods.
The Grow Great campaign commends the president for taking bold & decisive action to address the widespread hunger witnessed across South Africa as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic lockdown. Now it’s time for South Africa’s food manufacturers, wholesalers &...
With no nutritional reserves, Covid-19 will push people over the edge
COMMENT Even before the lockdown, the nutritional status of a large proportion of South African families was very fragile. A quarter of South Africa’s children under five suffer from stunting as a result of chronic malnutrition, which is an underlying...
Bill Gates shines the spotlight on stunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBRn1LfRdYk
Grow Great Executive Director Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso discusses stunting on eNCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXu0wwhaNZg