ANGELS OF CHANGE: A Positive Deviant/Hearth Approach to Maternal Health
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Kahabi
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World Vision Tanzania-Lake Zone
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World Vision Tanzania-Lake Zone
+255282762256
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The Positive Deviance (PD) process identifies acceptable, effective and sustainable practices that are already used by at-risk mothers and that do not conflict with local culture. Through learning what their peers with equally limited resources and risk situations are doing to promote maternal Health, Mothers are then empowered through Hearth Sessions to adopt better practices and behaviors even in areas with very limited access to health information and services. It is, in essence, it is a “mop-up” program to eliminate the pool of maternal Complications among women of Childbearing age and Pregnant women , not only through Health Promotion but also by permanent behavior changes which are acceptable by the community and can be carried on to next generation of women.
PD Approach1 has been in Practice for nutrition rehabilitation programs in Vietnam and Rwanda resulting to marked reductions in child malnutrition and improvements in child health within a short period of Time .ITS USE FOR MATERNAL HEALTH PROGRAMMES HAS NEVER BEEN DOCUMENTED ANYWHERE,Making it unique. The angels of Change Project will be linked to other health interventions for all women within the target communities if any.
Its is a Programme which is self centered and Communally driven buiding the Capacity of women especially in resource limited areas to be responsible for their health by taking appropriate actions at the right time through guidance of their Positive Deviant Peers leading to improved maternal Health.
PD Approach has been in Practice for nutrition rehabilitation programs in VManonga ADP of World Vision Tanzania resulting to marked reductions in child malnutrition and improvements in child health within a short period of Time .Its our hope that if used in Maternal issues the Result will be overwhelming.
FUNDRISING: My organisation is working to look for fundings for this Project
INTERGRATION;We also expect to intergrate the Project in our Current Health Projects
TRAINING: We expect to train more people on Positive Deviance/Hearth Approach to create a Pool of Competent workers
We expect that mother's Capacity on Maternal health issues will be improved by strengtherning Positive behaviors leading to appropriate actions during Pregnancy,Delivery and Post deliverly leading to overall reduction of Maternal deaths
Training of co worker to create a Pool of Competent workers who will actively implement and Monitor the Angels of Chance Project.We also expect to intergrate it in our current Health Programmes.
Lack of Enough Funding at Inital Stages and lack of commited team playing co workers
Fewer than 100
Less than $50
Yes
Idea phase
More than 5 years
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Through expertise exchange and referral support
FUNDS
TEAM WORK
INDIVIDUAL COMMITMENT
Mariam(Not her Actual Name) an old lady with Seven children with the Last Born,Nameless dying in early days of her life.Mariam suffered a severe hemmorrhage afterwards,the cause being retained placenta which was very very difficulty to remove.She was brought to the hospital,exahusted and tired,paper white appearance and it was a weekend and a Doctor on Duty was not available in the ward.Luckly enough i was there visiting my wife who has just delivered a baby girl Eileen.After observing that the Doctor on duty was not there then i thought i've to do something to save Mariam's life.I told the nurse,'i'm a Doctor and i think i can help'.At first she didn't agree with me ,she needed to see my ID Card.Unfortunately i didn't have one.I was just Completed internship in Dar Es Salaam and moved to Shinyanga to wait for posting.Unwelcomed by the nurses i just grabed the sterlile gloves and gown from the Nurses hands and rushed to the Bed where Mariam was gasping,after a series of emergency Procedures Mariam became stable,back to life again.....at that point the nurses realized that i was really a medical Doctor.Nearby Mariam there was a Woman Called Fatuma(Not her real name),she knew Mariam of course and they were neighbours to our suprise.She was just delivered a Seventh baby without any Maternal Complications.After talking to her for some time i discovered that she was poor even more than Mariam,then i kept asking myself 'Why people having the same resources,others make good use of them while others are not???.I asked the same question to Fatuma ....to my suprise the practises she explained are those what i currently call Positive Deviant Behaviors.After some time i attended a Positive Deviant/Hearth Training and started offering technical support to one of our Programme area which was implementing the Nutrition Project among Underfives using the PD/Hearth approaches...very successifully.Then i thought the very same idea can pbe used in Maternal health issues ...of course as ANGELS OF CHANGE PROJECT.
Majority of Programmes aiming at Good Materal Health are always Generalised and institutioanl approaches.However programmes aiming at Buiding Capacities of women to become the Angels of changes for their lives by observing and learning from peers who have the very same resources but having Positive deviant Practices are very few if Any.Angels of Change Projects is a Socially,acceptible and centered Projects which uses socially driven practices which are Positive to build capacity of expectant mothers in Materal Health issues.
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