Health workers are critical to the health and survival of mothers and newborns in Nepal. They are selected within the community and are trained to assess, classify, and treat or refer children with signs of infection, disease and other life-threatening conditions.
Every year in Nepal, 37,000 newborns and young children die from largely preventable causes.
Nepal has passed the halfway mark in the race to end child deaths. Training more frontline health workers will save even more young lives. Save the Children’s role in the project was to provide evidence of how effective these interventions could be, give technical assistance and help shape the government’s policy – along with providing direct training in one district. Nepal is on track to meet MDG 4 –reducing childhood mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
Nepal has passed the halfway mark in the race to end child deaths. Training more frontline health workers will save even more young lives. The Nepalese government has rolled out the training across 10 districts and has demonstrated its commitment to saving the lives of newborns by providing effective support and incentives for these volunteers. Working with other partners,
When asked what is the most important element to ensuring the baby survives, Resham told me spreading the world to soon-to-be mothers that help was available.
- Charlie Wittmack, World Tri founder and adventurer
Total Funding Received to Date: $910
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $910 . The original project funding goal was $300,000.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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