Due to high level deaths of young mothers and their children during child birth, MoDeSIC Project will reduce maternal & child mortality rate by identifying, training & supporting 150 infants & young mothers in difficult situations. The project targets Lords Resistance Army (LRA) formerly abducted children, children born in captivity and destitute girls in fishing camps. We intend to achieve this through community training, awareness creation, provision of ambulance services & nutrition support.
Over 200,000 girl children formerly abducted by LRA or born in captivity & are back, total orphans of war & AIDS, living destitute lives in fishing villages in Northern Uganda are dying or facing severe challenges in child delivery. They are neglected and left to take care of themselves during pregnancy and child delivery putting their lives at a high risk leading to death of either mother, child or both during delivery. The project will identify, train/facilitate & support for safe delivery.
The HORARD MEDucate MoDeSIC project will identify 300 project beneficiaries & envisages provision of awareness, nutritional support, medicine, health & child care services, out reaches and ambulance services to expectant young first time mothers to hospitals for safe child delivery. The project will reorient and train youth and women as peer educators, establish home based care groups, train community leaders, etc. The peer educators will train/sensitize, establish groups, do outreaches etc.
MoDeSIC project will train 300 young women and equipping them with adequate knowledge to reduce maternal child mortality among young mothers, provide nutrition to infants and mothers, promote good hygiene, train other young mothers, monitor potential complications and report for better services, do out reach services and promote good health care services. The trained peer educators will become Community Owned Resource Persons (CORPs) that will keep the light burning even after the project.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
