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A Caring Leader in Kampala
An older woman wearing a long floral dress looks over to the children sitting in front of her big brick house. Each child is holding bowls filled with a mixture of silverfish, rice, and vegetables. Giggling between each mouthful, the children happily enjoy their lunch on a warm afternoon in Kampala, Uganda. After raising nine…
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National Childhood Nutrition Day Launched to Tackle Childhood Food Insecurity Crisis
Health and nutrition charity Vitamin Angels UK is launching National Childhood Nutrition Day (June 9) to raise awareness that 1 in 4 children in the UK are at risk of food insecurity* and to try and broaden their support to those most vulnerable. Working in partnership with the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), Vitamin Angels UK currently…
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SELF: America Ferrera Says It Was ‘Really Quite Scary’ to Give Birth During the First COVID-19 Surge
Giving birth can be an anxiety-producing experience even when there isn’t a global pandemic going on. But, as America Ferrera said in a new interview, giving birth during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic was full of uncertainty—and especially stressful. Ferrera gave birth to her second child, daughter Lucia Marisol, in May of 2020. At that…