Healthy Families, Brighter Futures Family Planning

A happy new year to you dear friend.

We share again with you happiness in this new year from all the children and their mothers you are immunizing through this project every year.

Immunisation exercise has now become a weekly activity since the opening of the health centres with increased number of mothers turning up each week. This is an achievement to us becuase it means that more children are getting immunised. The village health team move around the villages every week before the immunisation days to remind mothers to take their children for immunisation. They also remind expectant mothers to go for tetanus shots too.

Sarah Lawino is pictured in the photo holding her son Ojok (22 months), they have just had his immunisation at the Karin Children medical centre.

Sarah is from from the nearby village, Agonga.  Sarah told us that coming to this health centre was really an opportunity because it is very near to her home. She now can quickly go back to tend to her home and her business. In the past she had to walk very far away, and by the time she gets back home, she is tired and hungry, her children would be waiting for her and it would also cost her business too.  This will not happen anymore and she will continue coming back for the other immunisation days too. She tells us that Ojok did not cry so much during the immunisation and she believes the health workers were very good too.

Sarah tells us that she is going to tell her friends and neighbours to bring the children to Karin children medical centre because the health workers are very friendly and the service is very quick. She narrates to us how this is different from the government health centres where there are hundreds of mothers and childern waiting to be attended to. And one has to get to the health centre very early, and this can be very inconviniencing 

Sarah says that many mothers are put off by the long waiting ques and then they end up postponing the immunisation of their children. Some mothers even do not take their children at all for immunisation because they do not know the importance. She urged us to carry out health education in the market days and this will increase the awarneness about immunisation.

Friends tell us what you think of our work? We need to reach out to more mothers and children, can you support us to attract a wider support?

Happy New Year to you and we also wish you a great year ahead.

With warm regards,

Hope

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