By Lili Ricke | UK Programmes and Office Assistant Intern
Since May, the second round of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) education programme has been unfolding with purpose and precision. SEED Madagascar’s dedicated staff, together with Community Health Workers (ACs), have led a total of 336 community-based education sessions while conducting 5,040 households visits to reinforce essential learnings, building on the momentum of earlier efforts that saw 420 sessions and 6,300 home visits overall. Each visit is more than just an exchange of information; it is a personal touchpoint, a reaffirmation that health begins at home.
28 community health workers (AC's) recently completed a three-day refresher training, sharpening their delivery of the MCH curriculum. In parallel, SEED’s team conducted the second endline survey for the first round of education. This crucial step will help assess how well caregivers are retaining health knowledge, ensuring that lessons are truly understood and carried forward.
Crucially, Project Votsira supported the Ministry of Health’s vaccination campaign, with a special focus on children under five who had never received a vaccine dose. In communities where misinformation and access barriers have left children vulnerable, this partnership helps overcome the lack of access to vital information.
Through the Positive Deviance approach, Project Votsira identified 12 Model Mothers. These are women whose everyday practices have protected their children from malnutrition. Their stories are now being shared, transforming lived experience into local leadership and proof that solutions already exist within communities.
Now, Votsira is setting its sights on Phase VI. This next phase promises to bring life-saving education and support to even more families in rural Madagascar. Behind every statistic, every training, every home visit is a simple but powerful idea: every mother deserves the tools to keep their children safe. Project Votsira is turning that idea into reality; step by step, story by story, mother by mother.
The journey continues; thank you for being part of this transformative journey.
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