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