Reducing child malnutrition in Ho, Ghana

Improve malnutrition in Africa

Summary

We partner with the Ghana Health Services to fund community health projects at the H.O.P.E. Center, a primary health clinic in Ho, Ghana. project reportread updates from the field

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In Ho, the local diet of consists of very carbohydrate-heavy meals that often lack protein content necessary for proper growth and nutrition. As a result, a recent study has shown that 45% of children under the age of 5 in the Ho region are underweight for their height. As an intervention, we have established a child nutrition program, which teaches mothers how to properly supplement the diets of their children with protein-rich soybeans.

Activities

The program recently began training mothers in two of eight neighboring communities to become peer educators, monitoring the progress of soybean crops and growth of underweight children in their villages.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $8,354
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $3,645
Total Funding Goal: $12,000

Additional Documentation

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

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will improve the quality of clinical care through the diagnostic lab, and will reduce child malnutrition in Ho, from 45% to 15%, over the next five years.

Project Message

I'm really thrilled to inform you and all the students who helped to make the nutrition project a reality that finally the project has been launched today at the center.I cant wait but share the joy.
- Margaret Asante, Head Nurse of The HOPE Center

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Tiffany Wong
Co-President
GlobeMed
620 Library Place
Evanston, IL 60208
United States
917-698-4564
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organization

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GlobeMed
620 Library Place
Evanston, IL 60208
United States
(847) 467-2143
http://www.globemed.org

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in GhanaGhana and can also be found under HealthHealth.

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 31, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 25, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

Progress Underway

By Tiffany Wong - Co-President, January 31, 2010 04:46 PM

Hi there!

It's been a while since we have last posted, but things are going swimmingly at the GlobeMed at Northwestern chapter. We raised over $5000 for the clinic through campus fundraising events and individual donations for the H.O.P.E. Center, and sent $1300 to the clinic for security and utility payments for the next six months. Also at Northwestern, we are preparing the next team of students to visit and work at the clinic this summer, expanding the nutrition project and adolescent sexual health center, as well as conducting research on maternal nutrition and correlation to pregnancy and healthy childbirth.

At the clinic, the nutrition project is well underway, with three peer educators trained and working in their communities to monitor soybean crop growth as well as health of children under five. Our sexual health program has successfully trained 100 students to become peer educators and lead workshops in secondary schools across Ho town. An annual report is being compiled and will be uploaded shortly.

Thank you for all your support, and please continue to stay updated on our cause!

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