"Healthy Moms for Healthy Kids" Project

Providing nutritional education, child health, maternal health, laboratory and counseling service to pregnant women, mother from low income areas.

For the past 10 years I have had a strong concern for the health of young children in the sub urban areas. This is the area in which I was born and raised. Through my studies at the University and my practice as a medical student and staff I have come to learn that it is possible to alleviate the problems of malnutrition, maternal mortality, lack of proper treatment of persons with HIV/AIDS through construction of a health Centre in the locality or renting a building to serve as a health centre and routine health education outreaches.

The challenge to the creation and operation of these programs, however, is twofold. First, there is no existence of the teaching materials to assist mothers of young children in understanding how to improve nutritional intake and the effect that nutritional intake has on the health and welfare of their own children. And second, there is no existence of a group of trained facilitators to assist in delivering this information in a timely and meaningful manner.

Research suggests that the most powerful way to affect the health and welfare of a young child, pregnant mothers is through the improved understanding of the child's mother, sensitization of mothers about the importance of giving birth in well-established health centers. This project will focus improving child health and a system for helping mothers of young children and pregnant learn appropriate food and nutrition information to help in the development of their children. And, it will occur in a local community location, close to where these mothers of young children are living.

Further, the Project will build upon the very successful SUB URBAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT program as a way to involve university student volunteers in the offering of services to mothers of young children, people living with HIV/AIDS and pregnant mothers. In addition to using these volunteers as a viable form of manpower for the offering of service, the Project will work to help these volunteers learn meaningful food/nutrition information, maternal health and also techniques for effectively teaching this information to adults - a knowledge base that is certain to help them in their future endeavors.

A community-based health Centre called "SHARING HEALTHCARE CENTRE" (SHCC) will be established in, the sub urban area. SHCC will focus on providing nutritional education, child health, and maternal health, laboratory services especially expecting mothers and counseling for mothers, especially those from the extremely low income areas. It is expected that through the providing of information, health care to the mothers that it   will   be possible to have a direct and positive effect on the wellbeing of the young children pregnant mothers and positive living people of the community. This project also will reduce maternal mortality. 

 The program will use university student volunteers and village health teams to provide services to mothers of young children, people living with HIV/AIDS and pregnant mothers. It will also  involve health education and health service outreaches to remote areas around the country. It will bring health services and health education to the grass root.

Diagnosis of the patient requires the use of technology (medical equipments). For example, laboratory equipments, x-ray equipments, weight measuring equipments.

Goal 1-To reduce the degree of malnutrition among young children.

Goal 2- To effectively use volunteers as a major factor in helping people to learn.

Goal 3- To reduce maternal and infant mortality rate.

• The creation of a Centre in the suburban area that will become a focal point for Providing nutritional education, child health, maternal health, laboratory and counseling services to pregnant women, mother from low income areas. The center will also carry out health outreaches to rural areas around Uganda.

• The development of a recruitment/training program and supervised practicum for student volunteers, village health teams and use volunteers to teach the people. 

The team will have regular health outreaches to the communities and through the health centre.

This project was carried out in health centre 3 Mbale bungkho, the project served 27 people. 12 were children under child nutrition, 15 were expecting mothers.

we will be serving over 500 people in 12 months, The team will focus on providing nutritional education, child health, laboratory service and maternal health to especially expecting mothers and counseling for mothers. in 3 year we will be serve over 5000 people.

All members of my team were medical student, currently they are part of hospital staff, have medical skills, from diagnosis, treatment, care, examination. Have skills in public speaking, they can effectively disseminate information to the public.

I believe my solution stands to counter solve health challenges. Solve can advance my work by granting me technical knowledge, advisership and connecting me to partners and funders.

My team lacks funds to start up the project. Solve can help me with obtaining responses from managements and contributors. It can also help by providing funds to start up the project.