Improve Health in rural Zimbabwe

Summary

ASAP will train 24 rural Cluster Facilitators (CF) for 3 days in permaculture, growing and using medicinal herbs and general health issues. These facilitators will then form local health clubs in their respective areas and train 12,000 people in these same health issues. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Life in rural Zimbabwe can be terribly difficult with life expectancy only in the upper 30's. This is due to a lack of health training at schools in the rural areas. The first 5 years of a child's life is crucial with early childhood death a common occurrence. Nutrition at an early age is critical.

Activities

ASAP will conduct a 3-day Health workshop for 24 women CFs on how diseases spread, nutrition, permaculture, growing and using medicinal herbs and general health issues. The CFs will then cascade the knowledge to at least 12,000 women in their home villages.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £1,360
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £3,389
Total Funding Goal: £4,749

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.asapafrica.org/)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Over 12,000 villagers will be trained in ways to improve their nutrition, their health and their children's health. This will have an immediate impact on the general health of the rural area with fewer early childhood deaths.

Project Message

“By using our existing Village and Savings program as a platform to implement the Health Club Project, we will reduced the overall cost and make it accessible to more people."
- Mr. Joseph Miti, Program Manager, Zimbabwe

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Elizabeth Bara,
Executive Director
58 Dover Trail
Peachtree City, GA 30269
United States
770-632-7451
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organisation

A Self-Help Assistance Program (ASAP)
58 Dover Trail P.O. Box 2275
Peachtree City, GA 30269
United States
(770) 632-7451
http://www.asapafrica.org

Learn more about A Self-Help Assistance Program (ASAP) and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Zimbabwe and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Zimbabwe, read the Human Development Report on Zimbabwe or the Wikipedia entry for Zimbabwe.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 25, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 10, 2009.

Latest Update from the Field

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

By Tom Arsenault - Overseas Program Manager, January 25, 2012 02:45 PM

Try to imagine happy, healthy, smiling children. They are happy and healthy because ASAP trained their parents and guardians how to prevent them from contracting Cholera and Malaria, which often means a death sentence to young children.

In rural areas, although situations have improved, there are still highly vulnerable areas like Chipinge and Chiredzi in the eastern and southeastern parts of Zimbabwe where ASAP still needs to do health training. Waterborne diseases, such as typhoid, dysentery and watery diarrhea - all approaching epidemic levels - are creating concerns that conditions exist for a reprise of the 2008/09 cholera epidemic, which killed more than 4,000 people and infected nearly 100,000 others.

Prevention works - so ASAP needs to continue preventative training in selected areas where death lurks around every pool of unprotected water.

Please donate generously to help ASAP save lives and keep those children happy and smiling.

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