HEALTH
Health is a key ingredient for the survival of any community through
the provision of fresh, clean water, good sanitation, nutritious
food, secure shelter, recreation and education information.
In April 2006, The Australian AIDS Fund Incorporated, funded the
construction of the Mothers and Babies Health Care Centre. The
main building offers a comfortable, light and airy meeting place
for mothers with their babies to meet to share and talk about
their concerns for their own health and that of their children.
With seats and tables, they're able to come and listen to talks
on mothercraft and health issues...to weigh and measure their
babies...and to study information about common diseases..and the
means of avoiding them.
The Centre also has its own kitchen facility which will help the
women to share notes on nutrition and cooking skills.
The complex also includes support facilities .... two toilets,
a urinary room and a large bathing room.
The Centre also contains stocks of medical books, kits, baths,
wall posters and medicines, bandages, ointments, malaria nets
etc.
The green and white building (below) is a further health initiative:
it's the school clinic built onsite between the various classrooms
and other buildings.
It's fully furnished and equipped and also has a small medical
stock and health advisory reference books.
It'll be staffed by volunteers who've been given red Cross training
in basic First Aid
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| In early June, the mothers
of Msema , many with babes in arms, flocked to the Open Day
at the new Mothers & Babies Health Care Centre to check
out its facilities and resources.Mothercraft classes will
be the next step. |
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