Why Midwives & Healthcare
Children’s lives are endangered by malnutrition & disease in Darfur. Mothers and & babies’ lives are at risk when childbirth is unaided. Midwives & Healthcare are a top priority.
Children’s lives are endangered by malnutrition & disease in Darfur. Mothers and & babies’ lives are at risk when childbirth is unaided. Midwives & Healthcare are a top priority.
In Darfur, there is no healthcare in the villages.
Young women marry early, but their greatest fear is childbirth.
The only help in a village is an untrained Traditional Birth Attender who has little knowledge of even the basics of hygiene or first aid.
This is why we train 40 midwives every season, to help mothers and their babies. Their value in a village is beyond price.
In addition to childbirth, they are also trained in antenatal and postnatal care and baby feeding.
First aid workers are a lifeline for villagers with no other access to healthcare.
A small cut can soon become a debilitating injury if an infection goes untreated.
The training they receive includes hygiene and the care of broken limbs.
First Aid Workers are also trained to take part in vaccination programmes to prevent diseases.
They are in charge of the Revolving Drug Programme we help them to establish, ensuring that medicine is available in all our Kids for Kids’ villages.
Why First Aid? Click here to see more and make a donation.
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Kids for Kids’ mosquito nets prevent mosquitoes from spreading malaria, chinkungunya, dengue fever and yellow fever.
These diseases are often fatal.
Malaria is still the biggest killer in Africa.
The provision of mosquito nets reduces the incidence of malaria by two thirds. Our nets are not only large enough to protect several children, but because they have an extra-fine mesh they keep out the sand flies that spread diarrhea and vomiting, which can be fatal to children who are already dehydrated and weak from malnutrition.
We commit to providing two mosquito nets for each of the poorest families in a village. We also provide them to all the villages who apply to us to become a Kids for Kids village, whether or not we are able to adopt them and introduce all our projects.
Mosquito nets save many lives.
Kids for Kids Mosquito nets- click here to donate yours today. Thank you.
Imagine sleeping directly on the cold sand in your hut, with no coverings.
No wonder children become ill, and suffer with chest infections.
A simple blanket can save a life.
Chest infections can be fatal where there is so little healthcare.
Mothers will often display their blankets proudly and tell us that, because owning a blanket is a status symbol where people have so little, they are listened to in village meetings.
Kids for Kids supplies two large blankets to each beneficiary family in every village we adopt.
Blankets for children – see more here and donate to keep a child warm at night. Thank you.
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