For three days this trip we're going to provide some basic health checks and give some teaching to the children about hygiene and teeth-cleaning. Basic height, weight and temperature checks will be recorded on percentile charts. Last time this was carried out Viva discovered a few children needing urgent attention were discovered - mainly for Malaria.
Many of these children won't ever have had these carried out and it'll be a great experience for our nurses who'll be able to interact with the children as they carry out the tests.
We're hoping to encourage the projects to continue this kind of check regularly. We'll take some paper to hang on the wall so they can check the growth of the children from time-to-time. Something ALL children like to do is see for themselves how much they're growing.
Mim has identified 3 projects which we'll talk about in the coming posts - these are very different in scale from Watoto and unfortunately don't as yet benefit from the same level of resources. We're very glad to be serving these wonderful projects who do so much with so little.
To give to this effort (or to provide for other children in the VIVA project networks) please consider this channel HERE.
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