Promoting maternal and child health through self-sustainability
- Disability
- Community development
- Health education
- Maternal health
- Early childhood development
- Income generation
- Networking
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Founding Story
Azat
Israilov
"Kelechek HP" Public Foundation
, GB
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1‐5 years
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Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
The goal is to improve health of mothers and their children with disabilities through forming self-help groups for income-generating activities, and to reduce number of instituionalised children with disabilities.
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The projected impact is to help our government see that microcrediting can improve livelihoods of rural population and hence improve their health. Out pilot will show them the direct link between self-sustainability and maternal and child health. We believe that all regions of our country have this project implemented when self-help (or microcredit) groups formed around health and social issues not just around receiving and paying back money.
Forming self-hel pgroups
Improved health indicators
Income-generating activities have been launched
There are at least 5 sustainable self-help groups
At least 4 of them reported improvements in their health indicators
Income-generating activities have improved well-being in families
- HealthProm, UK charity, in its 2-year project in Kyrgyzstan on disability issues.
- "Nur Bala" NGO in the Talas region, our main implementing partner with HealthProm project. Working together since summer 2010 (but know much earlier).
- The Association of Parents of Disabled Children, working together since 2008 on child disability issues.
- "Nazik Kyz" NGO is a disability NGO led by a young lady with disabilities. We've known each other for about 6 years. We invite her as a trainer to our trainings.
- "My family and society" NGO of medical professionals that work on child health.
We currently work on 2 projects targeting parents of disabled children in 3 regions (Talas, Issyk-Kul, Bishkek) and young people in the Talas region. The former one is aimed at empowering parent-led NGOs funded by ICCO, the latter one is funded by the Soros Foundation and is about training citizen journalists among young people.
In our new project we would like to continue working in the Talas region as it is one of the least developed regions in the country.
We're quite young NGO with a small team of 3 enthusiastic people who have good skills in project implementation and new technologies. We were the first in the country that have conducted the most 'techi' int'l conference on child disability issues in 2011. We were the first to open a disability web-site in the country in 2009 - www.kelechek.kg (now operated by ARDI). We were the first in the disability sector - to launch Google group which is the only and the biggest one in the country (over 90 subscribers). We were the first to start in 2009 the largest advocacy campaign on disability issues called "Driving against indifference!" which has now become annual (everytime it's covered by almost all leading mass media).
We try to be innovators in learning new and applying to practice.