Sentence examples for buddy programme from inspiring English sources

In Chiradzulu district, in Malawi, a "mother buddy" programme is working to support pregnant women who are HIV-positive.

In July 2011, Hotel 41 and Rubens at the Palace hotels in London, both part of the Red Carnation Group, introduced a "sports buddy" programme, whereby staff at the properties with notable sporting skills, such as tennis or jogging, are teamed up with guests keen to keep fit during their stay.

A new international buddying programme in which five NHS trusts will be partnered with Virginia Mason in Seattle, which he described as "perhaps the safest hospital in the world".

Twenty-four of the women had successfully completed the 8 weeks community/incentive Star Buddies programme and two women were still in receipt of the programme.

The incentive intervention was integrated into the postnatal community part of the Star Buddies programme and ran over a period of four and a half months (November-March, 2011).

However, the Healthy Buddies programme indicated that younger peer educators (students in grades 4 7) are effective in delivering the messages to students in kindergarten through grade 3. 15 In addition, peer leaders from the same class stayed in contact longer with their peers in future school life, which may contribute to the sustainability of the intervention.

These occasions helped to raise awareness of the Star Buddies programme, promoted extended contact between the peer supporters and health professionals and facilitated the development of more collaborative relationships: 'I've had a lot more contact phoning midwives and health visitors to say mum's worried about this and she's asked me to speak to you and.....they've also contacted us.

An overview of the Star Buddies service is provided below: The star buddies peer support programme In 2009 the local PCT commissioned The Breastfeeding Network (BfN), a registered charity, to offer an extra tier of breastfeeding peer support to mothers before and after birth with the aim of increasing breastfeeding initiation rates and prevalence of breastfeeding at 6-8 weeks.

The breastfeeding peer support programme (Star Buddies) is provided by The Breastfeeding Network (BfN) [ 23, 24].

More time needs to be allocated to the programme Super Buddies magazine should be distributed widely especially to rural areas at a reasonable fee.

In this paper, insights from a qualitative and descriptive study to investigate the uptake, impact and meanings of a breastfeeding incentive intervention integrated into an existing peer support programme (Star Buddies) are reported.