This project will provide free prompt malaria diagnosis and treatment, give nutrition specific interventions to 1000 rural and vulnerable children, in targeted communities of Akinyele local government Oyo state, Nigeria.
Malaria kills 30 Nigerian children every hour, the spate of malnutrition worsens. Rural dwellers are the worst hit because of poor or lack of access to quality health care. Akinyele local government area is one of the largest local government with a high number of hard to reach communities in Oyo state, Nigeria. Malaria treatment and nourishing diet is almost a nightmare for some of the children. This project seeks to save up to 1000 children within the geographical location.
This project will provide a nourishing breakfast, deworming pills, mutivitamin supplements, early detection and treatment of malaria; and implementing actions which integrate the communities as key players in both sensitization, prevention and treatment of malaria, malnutrition and in a project tagged "MaMa".
MaMaH project will reduce mortality, poverty level and improve life quality as parents will not need to spend on malaria treatment or malnutrition. There will also be an increased knowledge of parents on prevention of malaria and correct nutritional practices. Over 1000 children's cognitive functions and physical development, and life quality will be improved to facilitate effective learning as does their urban counterparts.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
