To celebrate its co-branding partnership on Shoprite 18- and 30-pack Ubrand and Ritebrand eggs, the Grow Great team held a special event for the community of Alexandra at the East Bank Mall last weekend. TV and radio personality Penny Lebyane hosted the event, while...

Tembisa-based OurHealth citizen journalist Marcia Zali walks away with the first Grow Great Journalism Award for her reporting childhood nutrition and stunting. Zali’s two entry stories on one of South Africa’s most pressing challenges — poor nutrition which...

World Food Day is an opportunity to reflect on what we are not feeding the next generation and how that will affect our future. (Madelene Cronje/M&G) If it is true that we are what we eat, then we South Africans need to take a long, hard look at our diets,...

In June 2019, Flourish held its graduation ceremony for 25 franchisees who were eligible to run antenatal groups after attending a rigorous boot camp in Magaliesburg. Expectant moms will be happy to know that they will be empowered and well-supported on their journey...

Community health workers could play a significant role in turning the tide on stunting in South Africa if adequately supported with resources, training, coaching, mentoring and dignified employment conditions they need to do their work optimally. Among South Africa’s...

Stunting, a completely preventable condition that results from prolonged under-nutrition in pregnancy and the early years of a child’s life, impairs cognitive development and results in gross wastage of precious human capital. In his second State of the Nation Address...

Much of the vulnerability to stunting begins during pregnancy and in the first few years of life, when most brain development is happening and when pregnant women and young children need access to nutritious food. During Child Protection Week, we celebrate 21 years of...

Gauteng is considering imposing drug testing for pupils entering high school. Photo: Werner Beukes/SAPA Around the time the matric class of 2018 was in grade one, an estimated one in four children under the age of five in South Africa were stunted, according to...

Access to nutritious food is linked to improvements in human productivity (David Harrison) With less than two months before the general elections, all the major political parties — the ANC, the Democratic Alliance, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the Congress of...