Kenya


Family group

STACC is collaborating with the Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) in a project to provide basic health care for Maasai women and children living in the countryside around Lake Magadi in Kenya. The project is known as BION, or Biotisho-o-ntomonok-o-nkerra, which means "Health for women and children".






Workshop group
The project has started with workshops for mothers to learn about malaria, diarrhoeal disease and
childhood illnesses. The workshops are coordinated by Ms Sharon Looremeta and a team of health promoters from ITDG. Most emphasis is being placed on the problem of malaria, which claims the lives of very many young children in sub-Saharan Africa.




Mothers with bednets

 
Mothers have been given bednets treated with safe insecticide for their children to sleep under. Bednet use does not eliminate malaria, but fewer episodes of the disease occur and children's lives are saved.



Learning to treat bednets


The mothers also learn how to carry out the insecticide treatment process.




 









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