A collaboration between our Child Nutrition team and Anangu women has created new app to help new mothers navigate babies first foods & nutrition.
The Tjitjiku Mai (children’s food) app features a food database including bush food and food found in community stores. The app also has an interactive recipes library with step-by-step videos, meditations and children’s songs all presented in Pitjantjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra and English.
The app offers accessible, culturally relevant health resources and a step toward improving health outcomes for Aboriginal families living in the NPY lands.
The app has been designed and developed, through consultation with community members and families to specifically meet the needs of Anangu & Yarnangu families living in the remote NPY region of Australia so they can access relevant health information & resources around infant nutrition and introduction of solids for young children.
The Tjitjiku Mai app features aunties, mothers, sisters and grandmothers offering advice and supporting new mothers in what is often a daunting and stressful time for families navigating growing up young children
