Sierra Leone

 School children 2009
STACC/SL is a Sierra Leonean NGO registered with the government and is running a widely appreciated and successful School Helminth Control Programme (SHCP). The helminths are intestinal worms (hookworm, roundworm and whipworm) that cause chronic sickness, reduce growth rates and impair educational progress in infected children. Children often feel too unwell to go to school. Between 2004 and 2009 the SHCP delivered about 450,000 free deworming treatments to primary school children in parts of the country away from Freetown. This programme has been incorporated into the government's national deworming programme to which STACC/SL contributes medicines and training. STACC/SL continues to hold clinics for under fives with their mothers.
A new motorbike for STACC/SL

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