Nutrition experts warn that the continued the feeding of children and pregnant mothers with none nutritional foods will impact negatively on the country’s economy and health living of the population. The nutrition specialist at Jinja regional hospital, Toko Mansuru says that most Ugandans have failed to provide their children and themselves with nutritious foods but instead […]
Parliament undertakes to spearhead a campaign to ensure all workplaces have facilities that enable mothers to breastfeed. This will make mothers take care of their babies in order to uphold rights of children and also ensure efficiency. The speaker of parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga says that if the campaign is successful, the country will have a […]
For years now mothers have been encouraged to breastfeed their babies because of the many benefits, with breast milk referred to as the perfect food for baby. Breastfeeding’s short-term benefits have long been clear, including the fact that it strengthens the immune system hence the baby is resistant to disease and infection. Benefits for the […]
On May 15th 1989 my mother, Resty Nakanwagi, passed from this life, leaving me and my older siblings motherless. A sadder detail is that she left a new born baby because she died in child birth. In my native toungue, Luganda, giving birth is refered to as a woman’s fight. How true that is! Fast […]