Provide primary health care for street children

Aside from the food relief distribution and hygiene kits, we also aim to strengthen our primary health care initiatives, carried out under our primary health care services provided by the mobile health clinic. This includes free medical consultations and assistance for those who may need hospitalization. Moreover, health education is also an intrinsic part of the holistic solution that the organization has been doing for the past years--this time focusing more on understanding the Covid19 illness and how to prevent from being infected.

Childhope Philippines’ recovery plan for its beneficiaries to help prevent and slow the spread of coronavirus includes the following:

1. Provision of psychosocial interventions, especially counseling and mental health awareness

As most beneficiaries have fear from uncertainty and other emotional and mental stress brought about by their experiences during this pandemic, our social workers have a great role to perform in counseling and mental health awareness-raising. They will continue their work on the streets and online.

2. Primary health care learning sessions

Online sessions on primary health care, particularly in understanding Covid19, are conducted by street educators. This also includes hygiene and prevention practices in order to help curb the spread of the illness. Children participants are given mobile load credits which they can use for the live online sessions delivered by the street educators at a specified time. The children often use mobile phones which are borrowed from their parents or relatives during these sessions.

3. Medical consultations

Clinical consultations are made via telemedicine and face-to-face consultations coordinated by social workers with the KliniKalye (mobile health clinic) medical doctor. Medicines are dispensed to beneficiaries through their respective street educators.

In order to carry out these plans, Childhope Philippines commits to continue raising funds, calling for donations and forming partnerships with different stakeholders. If you are encouraged by the work we are doing, please do consider sharing the project with your network, and if your circumstances allow, please consider making an additional gift. We will continue to keep you informed about the work we are doing and the impact your donation is having.