World Breastfeeding Week 2026: 7 Powerful Benefits That Build Healthier Communities

Mother breastfeeding her newborn during World Breastfeeding Week 2026

This August, World Breastfeeding Week 2026 reminds the world that breastfeeding is more than a personal decision between a mother and her child. It is one of the most effective public health interventions available one that influences survival, nutrition, education, economic development, and national productivity. For decades, researchers have demonstrated that supporting breastfeeding leads to […]

Is Africa Over-Surveyed and Under-Understood?

Africa Over-Surveyed and Under-Understood as humanitarian surveys collect data without fully capturing lived realities in African communities.

Africa is over-surveyed and under-understood, yet continues to be the focus of countless humanitarian surveys across refugee camps, rural clinics, urban slums, and post-conflict communities. Across refugee camps, rural clinics, urban slums, and post-conflict communities, surveys arrive endlessly. Clipboards, tablets, enumerators, consent forms. The questions repeat. The promises rarely do. Africa may be one of […]