Health & Nutrition

“Our dietary diversity was limited to one or two staple foods, but now, not only do we have dietary diversity but we also earn money by putting some of our vegetable on the market”, says Alemu.

Roman was also awarded by the National Nutrition Coordinating Body for her great leadership and contribution on the national nutrition program implementation earlier in 2017.

This is an extraordinary story of a woman with an unparalleled perseverance; a woman who is leading mere ordinary life because a harmful traditional practice had unfortunately set limits to her potential as a child.

SNL supported the Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia and its Regional Health Bureaus as well as its partners to attain effective and equitable coverage of newborn care interventions and practices aimed at the three leading causes of newborn deaths including infection, Pernatal Asphyxia and prematurity.