Helen Keller Int’l to teach child nutrition class to 20K workers

Helen Keller International in Cambodia is working coaching classes on the wholesome feeding of infants and kids for manufacturing facility employees in 4 provinces. It is anticipated that greater than 20,000 employees will profit from the challenge.

The worldwide NGO’s challenge is a part of a pilot which can even search assist for establishing breastfeeding rooms with the assist of the German improvement company GIZ and the Multi-sectoral Food and Nutrition Security Project.

Hou Kroeun, deputy nation director of Helen Keller International mentioned a group had run a coaching from September 5-7 for employees at Berry Apparel (Cambodia) Co., Ltd.

“We are centered on educating employees in regards to the significance of well being and diet throughout being pregnant and after supply. We goal to teach them so their kids are wholesome, intelligent and turn out to be residents who will contribute to the nationwide financial system sooner or later,” he mentioned.

Kroeun mentioned that latest scientific research in different international locations have discovered that comparable tasks diminished well being care prices for moms and kids, and workers absences, and elevated productiveness.

A 2022 Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey confirmed that the speed of unique breastfeeding in Cambodia had declined alarmingly from 65 per cent in 2014 to 51 per cent in 2022.

Cambodia was dedicated to growing the charges of unique breastfeeding for infants and kids from zero to six months to 85 per cent by 2030.

Tung Rathavy, an adviser to the Ministry of Health, mentioned that no research have but confirmed the explanations for the decline in breastfeeding charges.

“I feel that there are numerous contributing elements, 76 per cent of recent moms discontinue breastfeeding once they return to work. Linked to it is a lack of assist from employers,” she mentioned.

She added that the promotion of powdered milk was additionally a significant component, as their promoting confused the general public, a few of whom believed that milk system is superior to breast milk.

Rathavy urged employees to recollect the worth of breast milk, saying that it was one of the best ways to ensure that their kids developed to their full potential. It diminished the danger of illness, ensured satisfactory mind improvement and regular development, she defined.