Maternal malnutrition awareness campaign asks participants to adopt the diet of a woman in a crisis setting
Press Release – June 18, 2018 – Austin, TX – Circle of Health, International (COHI), an international humanitarian organization providing reproductive, maternal, and newborn health care in crisis settings around the world, today launches one of its most engaging campaigns, In Her Shoes. Intended to bring awareness to the devastating impact maternal malnutrition has on both mothers and babies, In Her Shoes asks participants to adopt the diet of a woman in a developing country for 24 hours. And in response to the current crisis at the Texas-Mexico border, a sixth challenge has been added for a woman in the Rio Grande Valley.
Sera Bonds, COHI CEO: “Too many of the women we work with around the world live off of less than $2 a day. Poor nutrition during pregnancy endangers mothers in the millions every day and in the first weeks of a child’s life, it has catalyzing effects that last i…