Child Health Nutrition Program

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Summary

Improving the nutritional status of children by improving the feeding, caring, hygiene and health seeking practices of caregivers using Hearth and the Positive Deviance approach.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

28% of Filipino children under the age of 5 are moderately or severely underweight. The overarching cause of malnutrition is lack of knowledge in using locally available affordable foods, as well as poor feeding, caring, hygiene, and health seeking practices of caregivers. Existing interventions are heavily focused on supplemental feeding, which are unsustainable. About 1000 children aged 6 to 24 months and their caregivers in five poorest rural communities will benefit from this project.

Activities

Children under 2 are weighed. High protein and calorie recipes from local sources are given to malnourished (hearth) children. Families are educated about feeding and caring hygiene.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

About 1000 children participate; 65% will gain 200 grams. About 500 caregivers will gain skills in feeding, caring, hygiene and health seeking practices which they can continuously share with other caregivers.

Project Message

As long as I feed my child, I felt good; but, my child is not gaining weight and is sick. Hearth sessions taught me how to prepare nutritious foods using available foods in my community.
- Nenita Cuervo, 35 years old, Housewife, with 2 children

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Nancy F. Obias,
International Program Director
28-A Eugenio Lopez St
South Triangle
Quezon City, 1103
Philippines
63-2- 9255956
Email:

Project Sponsor

Pearl S. Buck International

Organization

Pearl S. Buck International
520 Dublin Road
Perkasie, PA 18944
Philippines
(800) 220-2825
http://www.pearlsbuck.org

Learn more about Pearl S. Buck International and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Philippines and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Philippines, read the Human Development Report on Philippines or the Wikipedia entry for Philippines.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 01, 2005.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 17, 2005.

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