FINDING THE BRIGHT SPOTS
of the village. Sternin’s role was only to help them see that they could do it, that they could conquer malnutrition on their own.
Six months after Sternin had come to the Vietnamese village, 65% of the kids were better nourished and stayed that way. Later, when researchers from Emory Uni- versity’s School of Public Health came to Vietnam to gather independent data, they found that even children who hadn’t been born when Sternin left the villages were as healthy as the kids that Sternin had reached directly.
This success spread. “We took the first 14 villages in different phases of the pro- gramme and turned them into a social labo- ratory. People who wanted to replicate the nutrition model came from different parts of Vietnam to learn from this case study.”
The programme has reached 2, 2 million Vietnamese people in 265 villages and what makes it even more remarkable is that Sternin and his small team, with a limited budget, didn’t walk in with the answers. All they had was a deep faith in the power of bright spots.
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