Description
Tons of disposable nappies are used every day. The project called „TEXTILE MOM” aims to present and promote the more environmental friendly and healthier usage of modern washable nappies among parents of diaper-aged children, pregnant mothers and child care nurses living in the catchment area of Szeged. We plan to continue our monthly organized baby-mom clubs with the purpose of community development and presentation of the options for sustainable childcare. We develop our diaper rental system further, which allows parents to easily choose from a large range of products. In addition we organize family days, workshops and other presentations. We plan to come up with maternity training sessions, baby fairs, craft fairs selling hand-made diapers. We cooperate with the MASK Association and with the Association of MS Patients in Csongrád county since their programmes are overlapping ours. As a result of the project parents will be more open to this opportunity and a countrywide campaign could develop.
Summary of project results
The project primarily sought to respond to environmental, health and family-financing problems connected to the massive use of disposable diapers, and focused on the promotion of (modern) washable diapers and ecological detergents. Executed activities included mainly information dissemination and awareness raising elements: in addition to the city-wide dissemination of information leaflets and posters throughout Szeged, 13 workshops were held in the association’s own baby-mammy club in Szeged, operated jointly with MASZK Association. Further 12 presentations and demonstrations were provided on request in Szeged and surrounding settlements, and the organizers set up their information stands 9 times at different local fairs and festivals. Four major events were also held in this queue, one of which was the Real Nappy Week of Szeged in 2016. All in all, thousands of people and families were reached, and a smaller community of supporters were also built. For capacity building purposes a 16-event-long training course on crochet, a pre-birth training of 7 occasions, and a five-occasion-long knitting training course were also provided, and in addition, three more workshops were organized on cleaning and cosmetics production. All these provided opportunity for dozens of mothers to gain related skills and technical know-how. One of the main achievements of this exemplary project is nappy rent service that provides families both the opportunity to try and gain experiences in relation to reusable nappies and the ability to use them in case with lower incomes they could not do so. A co-operation with the Midwife Network was also initiated, that made it possible enabled to directly promote both the initiative and the benefits of the modern washable diapers for university students and more than fifty midwifes directly. The project was also awarded: thanks to it the association won the Ozone Green Award in 2015.
Summary of bilateral results