Children's Access to Healthcare
Improving children's access to healthcare is another of our main objectives as an international development charity, and much of our work in the field of healthcare focuses on rural communities, where easily accessible healthcare facilities are hard to come by.
Through our project partners, we are supporting initiatives to improve overall access to healthcare for children, and working to promote awareness of various health issues. In many projects we work on, we are improving facilities at schools in rural communities, providing them with new toilet blocks and kitchen, giving children the opportunity to learn in a clean, hygienic environment.
Below is a brief introduction to some of the projects we currently support:
Nepal
Healthcare Where It's Most Needed
Poverty, geography and weak infastructure in Nepal often means that rural communties face limited accessibility to healthcare. Childreach Nepal's partnership with Kathmandu's Dhulikhel Hospital runs a programme promoting rural school health education along with mother-and-child health camps. This programme has benefitted over 2,500 children so far. In keeping with the sustainable model that Childreach International works with, a peadiatric training centre has been established for outreach workers to spread the project's work across as wide a region as possible.
Read more about our work in Nepal...
Tanzania
School Improvement Programme
The school improvement programmes in Tanzania supported by Childreach International also play a part in improving the health of local children. In many schools the toilet facilities are poor and unsanitary, often discouraging children from either using them or going to school altogether. School kitchens are often basic set ups without adequate facilities. Our school improvement programmes not only renovate classrooms, but also improve the conditions of the school toilets and kitchens, providing children with a hygienic and healthy environment to work in.
Cambodia
Tackling Infant Mortality
Cambodia is currently struggling with a lack of trained midwives, and the resulting effects this is having on maternal mortality. Martenal mortality is a particular threat in rural parts of the country, where long and difficult journeys often make the trip to hospital difficult or impossible. As a result, only 68% of women have access to a skilled birth attendant, and few have access to some form of antenatal care. Childreach International is working with Life Options Inc. to address this problem, improving maternal and child health in the Takeo province. The project runs mobile outreach centres, allowing women in rural areas to recieve the maternal care they need.
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