promoting good maternal and child nutrition and health practices in the urban slums of Nairobi,Kenya
Promoting health lifestyles through capacity building and community eduction,consultancy and research
A propos de vous
A propos de vous
Prénom
Anastacia
Nom
Kariuki
Adresse électronique
URL Twitter
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A propos de votre organisation
Nom
Nutritionists Without Borders
Site Web
Pays
Kenya, NA
Pays dans lesquels ce projet crée un impact social
Kenya, NA, Nairobi
Votre organisation est-elle une
organisation à but non lucratif
Depuis combien de temps votre organisation opère-t-elle ?
1‐5 années
Votre organisation a-t-elle reçu des récompenses ou des prix ? Si oui, indiquez-nous lesquels.
Yes,
Tanita Community grants 2011 recipient.,to,promote healthy lifestyles among secondary school students in Nairobi,Kenya
Références - Veuillez fournir deux références, accompagnées chacune d'une explication de deux lignes, d'une adresse e-mail et d'un numéro de téléphone
1.Prof. Judith Kimiywe
Chairman, Dept of Foods, Nutrition & Dietetics, Kenyatta University,
P. O. Box 43844 – 00100, Nairobi. Mob Tel: +25470003103; jokimiywe@yahoo.com
She is an active and devoted nutrition leader in Kenya.
2)Dr. Grace Ettyang
Head of the Department of Epidemiology,
P O Box 4606 ELDORET 30100
Moi University; Tel: +254 722 609 257
Email:gaettyyang@gmail.com
She is devoted to promoting public health at the community level
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Innovation
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Stabilité (le projet a dépassé les premières étapes et obtient de bons résultats)
Depuis combien de temps le projet existe-t-il ?
En place depuis 1 à 5 ans
Le besoin : quel problème tentez-vous de résoudre ?
poor nutrition and health practices among women and children resulting to:
: Poor and inadequate breastfeeding practices
: increased preventable childhood illnesses/death
: poor maternal birth outcomes
La solution: quelle solution proposez-vous ? Soyez précis !
To increase maternal and child nutrition and health wareness, knowledge and skills using a community health and nutrition oriented approach among women living in limited resource settings of Mathare and Huruma slums in Nairobi
Le système : décrivez un exemple spécifique montrant de quelle façon votre initiative fonctionne ; indiquez vos principales activités.
This projects aims at primary prevention of many nutritional and medical illnesses that arise from poor practices and behaviour.It is innovative because it deviates from the normal processes of treatment and care focused on secondary and tertially disease treatment and management within the health care settings.It aims at instilling behavioural change practices among communities so that they can understand the causes of illness,the
prevention modalities from an individual to a community level embracing behavioural change as a key.
The primary activities will include:
:Conducting comprehensive maternal nutritional education and breastfeeding demonstrations sessions and the monthly follow-ups including sessions on Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV(PMCT)
:conducting public health campaigns, hygiene promotions and waste disposal management demonstrations
:Holding monthly community mobilization sessions; airing health and nutrition education radio messages and public health promotion rallies
:conducting cookery demonstrations to promote dietary diversification,improve cookery skills,meal planning , service and storage and nutrient retention in the most cost effect and safe manner.
Le marché : qui sont vos collègues et vos concurrents ? Identifiez les autres personnes qui travaillent à répondre au même besoin et indiquez ce qui vous différencie d'elles. Comment ces concurrents pourraient-ils influencer votre réussite ou votre croissance ?
Currently Nutritionists Without Borders is the lead in providing nutrition and health education using the community oriented approach.The project innovation is through its strategic use of multi-dynamic approach in instilling behavioural change through:
The use of focus group discussions among pregnant and lactating women and those with children under 8 years of age.Other mechanisms will be;Use of drama and music to attract communities to attend public health promotion rallies,use of local venacular based radio stations to transmit key messages,Drug and alcohol abuse counselling will also be provided and community mobilization and sensitization using the key community personalities like chiefs ,traditional birth attendants and local members of parliament as well IEC materials.
Impact social
Création de l'organisation : nous voulons tout savoir sur votre déclic. Expliquez-nous oú et quand les fondateurs se sont rendu compte que cette solution possédait un véritable potentiel pour changer le monde.
I developed this concept after years of working at the Kenyan national hospital and i related many patients diseases/disorders to poor lifestyles albeit many would come when its too late when the problem was at the critical stages.I therefore decided to co-found the NGO to initiate community nutrition and health education sessions among the most vulnerable communities who had no access to health care and information.We kicked off with healthy sessions in churches and schools and gradually to the slums of Nairobi.So far we have been conducting these nutrition and health sessions to pregnant and lactating women and those household with children under 5 years of age and we have seen a lot of positive impact especially in the improvement in breastfeeding rates,uptake of good hygiene and sanitation practices and improved dietary diversification hence reduced infections/diseases.
Décrivez le but de votre initiative, en insistant sur les résultats que vous souhaitez obtenir
the goal is to reduce maternal and child related morbidity and mortality that is highly associated with poor nutrition and health practices and improve nutrition and health awareness,skills and knowledge among the targeted communities.It is expected that with the uptake of these knowledge the communities will be able to achieve good nutritional status that will promote their general health and well being hence reducing the burden of disease and its related costs.The overall household economy will improve as communities spent their meager resources on other developmental related issues rather than healthcare and be able to take their children to school and offer other essential components of life and ultimately be able to save some money for the future.
Jusqu'à ce jour, quels résultats a obtenu votre projet ?
:Increased breastfeeding rates hence reduced childen related morbidity/mortality
:Improved nutritional status among women and children
:increased community awareness of nutrition and health
:improved hygiene and sanitary practices hence reduced diarrhea related infections
Below is the Quantitative summary:
NWB provides nutrition care and support by developing menus and training staff on therapeutic food preparation and infant and young feeding practices and management of malnutrition within the HIV/AIDS context. (Ongoing since March, 2009). To date over 3800 children reached and 1200 staffs trained.
•Promoting good maternal practices and exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months and discouraging early weaning among pregnant women attending ANC care at Marura, City Council’s –Mareba Health center and Uzima Hospitals/Clinic (On-Going) Over 5700 mothers reached since programme inception in September,2009.
Quelles sont vos prévisions en termes d'impact au cours des cinq prochaines années ?
The projected impact is to double or triple the number of both direct and indirect beneficiaries if resources allow.Given the current progress the following are the estimated projections:
Number of exclusively breastfed children increase by 150%.
Number of women willing to exclusively breasfeed for 6 months increase by 100%
Number of community nutrition and health education beneficiaries (both direct and indirect) increase by 200%
Number of radio and television stations broadcasting key health and nutrition related messages and information increase by 50%
Number of malnourished children under 5 years reduce by 5%
Number of malnourished pregnant and lactating women reduce by 10%
Increased number of community and political leaders participating in health and nutrition sessions.
Les meilleures propositions possèdent un programme solide détaillant leurs prévisions pour atteindre et suivre leurs objectifs de croissance. Identifiez vos objectifs à 6 mois pour accroître vos résultats
Définissez les trois tâches principales à accomplir pour atteindre ces objectifs à six mois
Tâche 1
resource mobilization
Tâche 2
identification of key community playes
Tâche 3
conducting a baseline nutrition and health status assessment survey using the FGD,KAP and SMART methodology
Et maintenant, voyez les choses en plus grand ! Identifiez vos objectifs à 12 mois
Définissez les trois tâches principales à accomplir pour atteindre vos objectifs à 12 mois
Tâche 1
Conduct the health and nutrition activities sequentially monitoring community uptake through demonstrative sessions
Tâche 2
Involve the community fully in actively propomoting the health and nutrition activities at the household level
Tâche 3
Monthly monitoring of behavioural changes and selecting key community leaders in monitoring the nutrition and health activities
Viabilité
Quels sont vos différents partenariats ?
Actuellement, votre projet cible-t-il d'autres populations, lieux ou marchés spécifiques ? Si oui, lesquels et pourquoi ?
Yes for up-scaling purposes,i would want to replicate this model in other limited resource setting of Nairobi and Thika districts,I have identified Kahawa soweto in Nairobi and Kiandutu slums in Thika as the locations due to the high rates of maternal and child malnutrition rates being reported from the two selected areas.Kiandutu slums also reported the highest cases of diarreal in Thika district by the district health team and hence urgent measures are needed to improve the current situation
Quel environnement et quels facteurs organisationnels internes font la réussite de votre projet ?
I have a dynamic team that is responsible and has a wide experience in community nutrition and health education who are willing to serve all communities.
Expliquez plus en détails les besoins et les offres indiqués ci-dessus ou proposez un type d'aide non mentionné dans la liste
As an experienced nutritionist/dietitian i can offer my services to any organization that may require them and consequently i would wis to receive Public health experienced mentors to grow this idea to full scalability and be multinational or regional in Africa.
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