Marie Ange is a mother of 5—yes 5!—and her life and the lives of her children were transformed after learning about the Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti.
While in our program she recalls learning a great deal. She learned what foods contained what nutritional content and how to prepare meals that kept her body nourished. Another fact that our nutrition worker drilled into her was the importance of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of her baby’s life. “I had heard this before but I had never given it any weight. It wasn’t until I kept hearing it from Kore Timoun again and again that I started to believe it.” Up until this point, she had never really understood the message of exclusive breastfeeding. She never thought her body produced enough breast milk to solely feed her other children in this manner so she would buy extra food and water for them. She recalls the difficulty of being able to afford feeding her children during those first crucial months. For her fifth child, thanks to the education provided by CNP, she finally realized and put into practice exclusive breastfeeding and indeed, she had plenty of milk for her baby. This was also helped by the fact that she herself had been healthy throughout the second half of her pregnancy from the treatment she received in our PNS Fanm program. 
