Congratulations on your performance so far, the program really seems to have had impressive impact. The idea of having a pilot project beforehand was very good and probably allowed you to fine tune the operations. do you plan on creating a standard operating procedure manual? This could be a great addition for similar organizations.
Also, bringing students from abroad is a good call, they can greatly assist in communicating the project globally and increase potential funding avenues.
I guess the challenge from here is understanding what could this network of people be used for? Can the medical students train people on disease prevention, for example? Could they create income by 'selling' their services to private hospitals and schools? Though it is important to focus on the NGOs mission in nutrition, there may be value in serving other interesting areas, this has to be weighted by the volunteers and the management.
Thank you very much for your comments ! After one year of the pilot project , we recognized that for the project to extent we need an operating system which requires an operating guide manual, thus, we have contacted the coordinator of the organization working in field of youth and adult education southern Province of Rwanda and they have accepted to assist us in the guide manual preparation . Rwanda village concept project (RVCP) the organization supporting NET program is currently in partnership with Bristol Volunteers for Development Abroad (BVDA)/Uk in this partnership, about 10 volunteers from UK spend over one month each year working with RVCP volunteers on fieldwork. These BVDA volunteers come from various fields and some of them can work on NET project. End Poverty Now/Canada has been supporting a micro-project on Income generation in 2008 and through created relationship we ensure we can go on to appreciate their support. Only the idea of NET has come from a medical student in his clerkership due to increased number of young children and their mothers with malnutrition associated problems but volunteers who implement NET programs are as well RVCP ians while we know that RVCP members are students in different faculties at National University of Rwanda. Thus, trainings on disease prevention as well as on income generation for the target groups are conducted by the volunteers but always with assistance of professionals from relevant fields provided either by RVCP alumni or partner organizations. In addition, medical students at different levels already have skills about disease and other health linked problems when they frequently go to villages educating the population about balanced diet, hygiene and prevention of the diseases they stimulate the audience and appreciated by all.
Your comments are always welcome!
I admire your holistic approach, your focus on women and the extent to which you are carrying out an important program in a very tricky context. Could you please tell me more about your programs? How many women receive this training? What have the impacts been on the women and on the broader community?
Thank you for your response and keep up the good work.
Dana Frasz -
Ashoka's Changemakers
At the beginning of the NET program, our hope was to enable women feel responsible of health problems associated with malnutrition and help them set sustainable plans to meet their needs. It is in this perspective that we had created 5 women associations and conduct a seminar for 2 leaders from each association together with health animators and program volunteers. After this seminar, closely with women leaders, we started to organize trainings for those who didn’t participate in the seminar. As positive impacts of our program, 250 women were trained and are able to engage their peers and fellow women into the same trainings and to use their own skills to provide themselves and their children a balanced diet; micro-projects to generate income for women are running within the association. These small projects include: vegetables and tomato growth, bee keeping and rabbit rearing income micro-project, and rice production etc. Each women association had got capacity to buy a cow so that the milk supply can be additional meal to breastfeeding for some mothers. At market place, products from women associations had reduced the price of former expensive food. 2 monthly meetings organized in villages closely with trained health animators provide the population with information about disease prevention. In addition to women benefits, the women out of the associations and other people living in the region are indirectly reached through trained women participants and also they have access to products from the associations’ activities, reduced price of food due to increased products at market make them able to buy and to feed their family and children.
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Congratulations on your performance so far, the program really seems to have had impressive impact. The idea of having a pilot project beforehand was very good and probably allowed you to fine tune the operations. do you plan on creating a standard operating procedure manual? This could be a great addition for similar organizations.
Also, bringing students from abroad is a good call, they can greatly assist in communicating the project globally and increase potential funding avenues.
I guess the challenge from here is understanding what could this network of people be used for? Can the medical students train people on disease prevention, for example? Could they create income by 'selling' their services to private hospitals and schools? Though it is important to focus on the NGOs mission in nutrition, there may be value in serving other interesting areas, this has to be weighted by the volunteers and the management.
Thank you very much for your comments ! After one year of the pilot project , we recognized that for the project to extent we need an operating system which requires an operating guide manual, thus, we have contacted the coordinator of the organization working in field of youth and adult education southern Province of Rwanda and they have accepted to assist us in the guide manual preparation . Rwanda village concept project (RVCP) the organization supporting NET program is currently in partnership with Bristol Volunteers for Development Abroad (BVDA)/Uk in this partnership, about 10 volunteers from UK spend over one month each year working with RVCP volunteers on fieldwork. These BVDA volunteers come from various fields and some of them can work on NET project. End Poverty Now/Canada has been supporting a micro-project on Income generation in 2008 and through created relationship we ensure we can go on to appreciate their support. Only the idea of NET has come from a medical student in his clerkership due to increased number of young children and their mothers with malnutrition associated problems but volunteers who implement NET programs are as well RVCP ians while we know that RVCP members are students in different faculties at National University of Rwanda. Thus, trainings on disease prevention as well as on income generation for the target groups are conducted by the volunteers but always with assistance of professionals from relevant fields provided either by RVCP alumni or partner organizations. In addition, medical students at different levels already have skills about disease and other health linked problems when they frequently go to villages educating the population about balanced diet, hygiene and prevention of the diseases they stimulate the audience and appreciated by all.
Your comments are always welcome!
Hello,
I admire your holistic approach, your focus on women and the extent to which you are carrying out an important program in a very tricky context. Could you please tell me more about your programs? How many women receive this training? What have the impacts been on the women and on the broader community?
Thank you for your response and keep up the good work.
Dana Frasz -
Ashoka's Changemakers
At the beginning of the NET program, our hope was to enable women feel responsible of health problems associated with malnutrition and help them set sustainable plans to meet their needs. It is in this perspective that we had created 5 women associations and conduct a seminar for 2 leaders from each association together with health animators and program volunteers. After this seminar, closely with women leaders, we started to organize trainings for those who didn’t participate in the seminar. As positive impacts of our program, 250 women were trained and are able to engage their peers and fellow women into the same trainings and to use their own skills to provide themselves and their children a balanced diet; micro-projects to generate income for women are running within the association. These small projects include: vegetables and tomato growth, bee keeping and rabbit rearing income micro-project, and rice production etc. Each women association had got capacity to buy a cow so that the milk supply can be additional meal to breastfeeding for some mothers. At market place, products from women associations had reduced the price of former expensive food. 2 monthly meetings organized in villages closely with trained health animators provide the population with information about disease prevention. In addition to women benefits, the women out of the associations and other people living in the region are indirectly reached through trained women participants and also they have access to products from the associations’ activities, reduced price of food due to increased products at market make them able to buy and to feed their family and children.
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