Physical Health Kenya Project #25829

Maternal and Child Health Clinics

by Village Hopecore International

Project Report | Dec 21, 2018
A summary of 2018

By Okumu Sylvanus | Project Leader

2018 has been a successful year at Village HopeCore where we have witnessed remarkable success through our health program in Maara Sub County. When managed to conduct 425 mobile clinics in schools and 465 Maternal and Child Health Clinics. Our main targets were children under 5 years, we conducted over 16,586 growth monitoring and supplemented 4,536 children on Vitamin A. In 2018.

Early 2018, we recruited 48 Neighbourhood Community Health Volunteers who have greatly supported in disseminating health education in the villages. The NCHVs have managed to conduct 4,686 home visits and offered health education to over 14,000 community members. The NCHVs also conduct follow up on immunization, pregnancies and children neglect or abuse cases.

Village HopeCore also focused on ensuring that parents have manageable families which were implemented through family planning education and services. We managed to offer family planning services to 3,094 clients and we distributed 42,117 condoms.

In April, we conducted teachers training with an aim of making the teachers champion health services in their respective schools. Our Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) program delivered 4,512 bottles of water treating reagent and 6,580 litres of soap to our partner school. We also conducted water testing using some test kits that helped identify if the drinking water in school tanks are treated or not.

Here are some additional 2017 highlights.

We trained 228 teachers as health champions for their respective school.
We increased health clubs in partner schools from 40 to 88 with a membership of 19,547 students.
Our WASH programme delivered 6,580 litres of soap.
We distributed 2,760 treated mosquito nets to at school entry level.

2019 resolutions and objectives include:

Recruit and train 112 Neighbourhood Community Health Volunteers.
Set up a laboratory.
Create a deworming plan for all students every three months.
Reach out to 85% of children in the sub-county with free health services.
Distribute 5,500 treated mosquito nets to children at school entry level.
Offer Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) to 7,000 youths.
Reduce the number of girls missing classes due to lack of sanitary towels by 90% through the distribution of sanitary pads.
Increase the number of health clubs in schools from 88 to 150.

We are looking forward to a very successful 2019

Best captions of 2018 are attached below.

Our malaria prevention program

We helped Stacy get a wheelchair

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Sep 25, 2018
Maternal and Child Health Clinic

By Okumu Sylvanus | Project Leader

Dear Friends

We are glad to report that for the past three months, Hopecore has made tremendous progress and remarkable impact in providing universal healthcare to the poor in Maara Sub-county. Then number of clients have increases rapidly and this is credited to the mobilization done by our NCHVs.

We are happy to report that for the period between June 19 and August, our Neighbourhood Community Health Volunteers (NCHVs) have conduct 4287 household visits. The NCHVs taught the community about: breastfeeding, nutrition, family planning, Immunization and hygiene. This has led to significant reduction in diarrheal related cases and minimum cases of malnourished children. We also collected a list of success stories from our NCHVs:

“....after several visits and health education in two households whose mothers have not been taking their children for immunization, these mothers have accepted to take their children for immunization and they are ready to continue without failing for theyhave realised the importance taking the kids for immunization"

“...l met a mother last week who had not taken her Child for immunization. The child was eleven months old and he had not been given measles vaccine. l took time to advise her to attend clinic. This week l was very successful and happy to find out that the child was given the vaccine. This created a lot of impact to the childs health”

“...two malnourished children who were under the care of Village Hopecore for last two months have picked well and they are very healthy.both parents and community are proud of that, continue with the same spirit, thanks Hopecore God bless you”

Our Maternal Child health clinic has registered remarkable number of patient where:

- 3562 Mothers have been educated.

- 2271 Children Under 5 years participated in growth monitoring

- 1760 Children under 5 have been treated.

- 1,266 Children under 5 years have been dewormed

- 425 Children under 5 have been given Vitamin A dose.

- 19 Malnourished children were referred to a dietitian

In August, we started operating a full-time clinic that opens from 8:00Am to 4:00Pm. The clinic makes our health service more reliable because clients can visit the clinic at any time and when we don’t have our mobile clinics in their villages. For a period of one month, we are glad to report that we have been able to treat 273 patients. We expect much turn-up at the clinic because of the reliability of our services.We got positive feedback from a client who visited the clinic:

“...am very happy about Hopecore full-time clinic because am able to bring my child to clinic after am done with my home chores and at any time. The nurses are very hospitable and am glad I got all medication for my daughter ”

We have been able to accomplish all these because of the generous support from donor like you and for that we say a big Thank you for the continued support.

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Jun 26, 2018
Recent Updates & Successes

By Anne Gildea | Project Leader

June 2018

With the success of our NCHV program and Health Champion program we have a huge number of agents of change based in the community supporting Maternal and Child Health.

We have been collecting success stories from our NCHVs and CHWs, some examples of these are below.

- “Last week I visited a baby who had asthma. I am pleased that the baby is doing well after HopeCore nurse, Winjoy did regular and strict follow ups and was able to advise the mother on the best way to care for the baby”

- “After visiting a household which had no latrine for 12 days, the head of the household has started constructing a latrine. Also, 4 new households have reported drinking clean water after my regular home visits”

- “After visiting a mother who was pregnant and advising her to go to the hospital to delivery, I found that she took my advice and delivered in the hospital”

We also regularly collect data on the condition of our patients after they have completed their course of treatment, or a few weeks after we have seen them. We do this in order to measure the effectiveness of our programming and treatment plans. We are happy to report that to-date in 2018, 75% of a representative sample of patients are healthy when we follow up, 18% are showing signs of improvement, and only 7% need additional visits from our nurses.

Additionally, we are happy to report that our NCHVs and CHWs conducted 1,012 home visits between May 1, 2018 and June 18, 2018. Additionally, we have an update on number of clients reached so far this year:

- 5,422 mothers have been educated

- 2,347 children under 5 have been treated by HopeCore nurses

- 3,615 children have participated in growth monitoring

- 1,923 mosquito nets have been given to children in the entering class of their school

- 1,666 children under 5 years have been dewormed

- 1,177 children under 5 years have gotten their recommended Vitamin A dose.

In April 2018, we trained an additional 25 neighborhood community health volunteers, bringing the total number deployed in the field currently to 52.

In May 2018, we deployed an additional team into the field so HopeCore now has 4 teams daily visiting schools. Each team is composed of 2 nurses, 1 health educator, and 1 or 2 community health workers. We expect to see the number of patients treated to increase this year and are excited to continue to share updates with you.

We are only able to accomplish everything with do through the generous support of donors like you!

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