Through ‘Nurturing Hope, Balo’ ODV is strengthening a key pillar of its work in Pilkhana: placing mothers at the centre as the driving force behind prevention, health and change for children, families and the entire slum community.
In a context marked by severe vulnerability, child malnutrition depends not only on food scarcity, but also on the precariousness of living conditions, limited access to information and thedifficulty of adopting daily practices conducive to children’s health and growth. For this reason, working alongside mothers means intervening at one of the most critical points for potential change. With “Nurturing Hope”, support is not merely an immediate response to need, but also a programme of nutrition education, awareness-raising and guidance that recognises mothers as key figures in the daily care of their children. Strengthening knowledge and awareness means in fact influencing habits, prevention, attention to hygiene and the protection of children’s health.
Con “Nutrire Speranze”, il sostegno non si traduce soltanto in una risposta immediata al bisogno, ma anche in un percorso di educazione alimentare, sensibilizzazione e accompagnamento che riconosce nelle mamme una figura chiave nella cura quotidiana dei figli. Rafforzare conoscenze e consapevolezza significa infatti incidere sulle abitudini, sulla prevenzione, sull’attenzione all’igiene e sulla tutela della salute infantile.
This approach has a specific purpose: supporting a mother means reaching a child, strengthening a family unit and generating a wider impact on the community. When good practices spread into daily life, their impact is not limited to the individual, but can extend over time and across the social community of the slum.
Alongside activities aimed at children, “Nurturing Hope” thus continues to develop an integrated approach, in which nutrition, health, education and family involvement go hand in hand. A project that aims to build more solid foundations for growth, protection and awareness, within a complex reality that calls for concrete action but also continuity, listening and responsibility.
This virtuous model, which combines daily care, lifelong education and community development, is a concrete reality that comes to life every day thanks to donors’ contributions and, in 2026, also thanks to the financial support of the Waldensian Church in Italy.
