Phase 2: Expansion

We quickly saw the potential for our work to have impact at scale. By 2014 we expanded to 19 health centers, reaching over 2,000 families annually in Gasabo and Musanze Districts. Our work was fully integrated into the District Plan to Eliminate Malnutrition in Musanze District and we were written into action plans as a key nutrition partner. At the national level we formed relationships with the Ministries of Health and Agriculture (MOH and MINAGRI) and began contributing to key policy initiatives such as the National Food and Nutrition Policy (NFNP) and National Kitchen Garden Guidelines. Our core behavior change methodology was adopted by the Ministry of Health and over 44,000 Community Health Workers were trained in our One Pot, One Hour model.

In 2016 we rolled out an additional program -our Maternal Nutrition Program- which was inspired by mothers who said they wished they had known more about nutrition before their children became malnourished.

By 2018, we expanded our Maternal Nutrition Program to 19 health centers, training over over 3,000 pregnant women on key nutrition and prenatal care topics.