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Monday, April 28, 2025

DR Congo: World Launches Positive Deviance Hearth Approach to Combat Malnutrition in Tshiyanda

This article highlights the response to ongoing child malnutrition in Tshiyanda, where World Vision DRC has launched the Positive Deviance Hearth (PD Hearth) program, an intensive, community-based intervention focused on improving nutrition through 12-day educational sessions for caregivers and continuous support. With strong local participation and support from the Mutshatsha health zone, the program combines nutrition training, health monitoring, and income-generating initiatives to ensure sustainable improvements in child health. This initiative is part of the broader ENOUGH campaign, aiming to drive long-term behavioral change and food security.

A mother giving food to her children in a PD Hearth session

DR Congo: World Launches Positive Deviance Hearth Approach to Combat Malnutrition in Tshiyanda

This article highlights the response to ongoing child malnutrition in Tshiyanda, where World Vision DRC has launched the Positive Deviance Hearth (PD...

Mutshatsha health zone staffs

DR Congo: Innovations Recorded in the Fight Against Malnutrition in Maisha and Mutshatsha 1

This article shows how, in Lualaba Province in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Maisha and Mutshatsha 1 health zones are responding to a...

Women in Asia preparing healthy food

Rethinking Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment

Diane Baik considers how local, food-based approaches empower families and provide sustainable solutions.

Marguerite and Acacia, her grand daughter

DR Congo: Marguerite's journey towards resilience

Marguerite is a courageous woman who has learned to be resilient in the face of the many difficulties life has thrown at her. Alone, she brings up her...

Children and women during a Positive Deviance Hearth session

DR Congo: Cured of malnutrition, the children of Kapolowe hope for a healthy future

This article shows World Vision's success in treating malnourished children. The results of the second phase of the project are commendable. A significant...

Josaphat in red t-shirt, with his mother and siblings

DR Congo: Thanks to World Vision support, Josaphat sees his siblings recover from malnutrition after losing his two sisters

This article is a testimonial from Josaphat, a 13-year-old child whose family was affected by malnutrition that took the lives of his two sisters. Coming...

Love and her daughter Sarah

Saved from malnutrition

This article is a testimonial from a mother whose child suffered from ammunition but thanks to the support of World Vision her child was healed. She...

Aimée baking at home

She became a bakery owner thanks to the World Vision support

This article is showing how a beneficiary has been able to become a bakery owner thanks to World Vision support. Aimee is among those women who are raising...

Emebet Feeds her son nutritious food

Positive Deviant/Hearth programme - A proven way out of malnutrition

Emebet Yirse, 22, is one of the mothers whose child was identified as moderately malnourished during a child health assessment survey coordinated by World...

Bassira feeding her daughter Fadjimata

Widow Bassira’s once malnourished children are now well

It’s a sad statistic. According to UNICEF, only 23% of babies in Niger are properly fed. And for Bassira, a 40-year-old widow, it was even worse. Bassira...

For the love of a child

In an empty school compound in rural Sindhuli district, women gather around a lady clad in a blue sari. The lady is monitoring the growth status of all...

Nobokoli Project: Fighting hunger and poverty

“I was always upset and frustrated because I was unemployed,” says Mahfuja Begum. “My husband, Munnes, used to work as a day labourer, earning 4,000 taka...

Better nutrition helping Khishge prepare for next milestone

“Come to mummy, Khishge,” says a beaming Urana as her one-year-old daughter excitedly begins crawling. Urana is eagerly waiting for when the rosy-cheeked...