Rescue Children Suffering From Severe Malnutrition

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Rescue Children Suffering From Severe Malnutrition

Summary

Provide food and medical care to starving Nepali children. Educate mothers on nutrition and hygiene, enabling them to take this information back to the villages where they can teach other families. read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $20,000 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Nutritional Rehabilitation Homes (NRH) for severely malnourished children. About half the children in Nepal under age five are malnourished. This is a leading cause of death in this age group. Children come with their mothers to one of our six Homes. They are so malnourished that they are close to death. In just six weeks, we restore the child to health and educate the mother in nutrition, and proper childcare. Field workers visit the village to be sure that the weight gain is being maintained.

Activities

NYOF provides proper nutrition and care to starving children while educating the mothers on how to feed their children with nutritious, locally grown food, and provide hygienic care. The mothers can return to the villages and instruct other families.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $20,000

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $20,000. The original project funding goal was $20,000.

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

Prevent children from dying of malnutrition, and from growing up with disabilities and mental disorders as a result of their lack of proper nutrition and care. Educate the mothers so they realize the importance of proper care and nutrition.

Project Message

NYOF’s NRH works miracles! Children are so weak they are barely able to breathe; they have no strength and are almost dead from starvation. In about six weeks they are transformed into healthy babies.
- Olga Murray, NYOF Board President and Founder

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Janis Olson,
Executive Director
Executive Director
3030 Bridgeway, Suite 123
Sausalito, CA 94965
United States
415.331.8585
Email:

Project Sponsor

Marketplace 2005

Organization

Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF)
3030 Bridgeway, Suite 123
Sausalito, California 94965
United States
(415) 331-8585
http://www.nyof.org

Learn more about Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF) and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

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

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 17, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 07, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

"Growing" Healthy Kids at the NRH

By Olga Murray - President and Founder, December 17, 2007 06:34 PM

Our Nutritional Rehabilitation Homes for severely malnourished children continue to restore hundreds of infants and toddlers to good health each year and to educate their mothers about nutrition and good child care practices. We now have six of these facilities scattered throughout the country. The main one in Kathmandu, which serves as a training and support center for all the others, is funded largely by the generosity of the dZi Foundation in Colorado. The capable and devoted staff has perfected the art of training illiterate young mothers in good child care practices.

This year, we will add three new facilities in remote parts of Nepal, some of which were inaccessible during the years of the Maoist insurgency. This is to serve the large number of mothers who cannot come to Kathmandu with their starving children. We are also starting a pilot program of nutrition camps in isolated areas. This will involve sending teams of medical personnel and nutritionists to examine the local children, show the mothers and other relatives of the children how to prepare nourishing supplements made of locally available foodstuffs, and refer very malnourished children to the nearest NRH for rehabilitation. Then we will conduct two follow-up camps to assess the effectiveness of our approach. Such a program is much needed, since half the children younger than five years of age are malnourished, and this is a leading cause of death among this age group.

Nepal is a country of strong traditions, and these include traditions about child rearing. We have found that mothers we have trained in good child care methods at the NRH are sometimes unable to practice them when they return to their villages because the matriarch of the house – the mother-in-law – insists that traditional (and sometimes harmful) customs be followed. For this reason, our camps will also focus on educating the mother-in-laws who have such a powerful influence over the rearing of children.

Because this letter would not be complete without a few pictures of the thousands of children the NRH has restored to health, please see the links below.

To restore a malnourished child to blooming good health costs about $250, which includes an average of five weeks of hospitalization and training the mother in good child care practices to be sure that the problem does not recur.

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