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World Breastfeeding Week 2020
This week we celebrate ‘World Breastfeeding Week’! This is an annual event promoting the importance of breastfeeding for children around the globe. This year’s theme is “Support breastfeeding for a healthier planet”, highlighting that breastfeeding provides every child with the best start in life and is part of a sustainable food system. Although breastfeeding usually…
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Home Visiting Toolkit
ICDI is happy to share the Home Visiting Toolkit developed for the project ‘Making the first 1000 days count in Ethiopia!’. The home visiting programme is developed by ICDI to supplement the existing health extension workers’ programme, supported by the national Ethiopian government, which is focusing mainly on health and nutrition. Our home visiting programme…
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Home visits to boost children’s learning and well-being in Ethiopia
In the last 12 months, ICDI and ESD have together been working hard to design a comprehensive home-visiting programme for vulnerable families in Ethiopia, as part of the project ‘Making the first 1000 days count!’. The idea is to support families with children under 3 to talk and play with their children, to support their…
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What robots can learn from babies
The idea that robots might one day replace humans is no longer just in the realm of fantasy or science fiction. Roboticists are getting better at programming androids, and are working hard on trying to enable artificial intelligence to learn and develop by itself. To do this, they are more and more looking at how babies and…
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Making the first 1000 days count!
Next week ICDI’s newest project ‘Making the first 1000 days count!’ will be launched in Debrebirhan, Ethiopia. With our local partner, Education for Sustainable Development, we have developed an integrated community based health and parenting model which puts the focus on the nurturing care of babies and toddlers. During the week ICDI’s Giulia Cortellesi and Margaret Kernan, along with Aemiro…
