Treat 10,000 Fluoride-Poisoned Children
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Summary
Provide safe drinking water to 10,000 children in 70 schools. Also, provide a nutritious mid-day meal to these children that is rich in calcium, iron, vitamin C, vitamin E, and other antioxidants.
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Received $2,022 from 15 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In India, 6 million children below the age of 14 are diseased from drinking fluoride-poisoned water. Communities in rural India depend on groundwater, drawn through tube wells, hand pumps and open wells that are contaminated with fluoride.
Activities
Counter the effects of fluoride poisoning by providing a nutritious meal for school-aged children. Remove fluoride from water by installing filitration systems for preschool and elementary school children.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $2,022
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $715,978
Total Funding Goal: $718,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Schoolchildren will not be threatened by fluoride in their water and children affected by poisoning will gain the nutrients necessary to recover.
Project Message
“The reason why I am so intensely involved in the Fluorosis Control program in India is for the simple reason that millions in India suffer from fluorosis by just drinking poisoned water."
- Prof. (Dr.) A.K. Susheela, Executive Director
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on September 10, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 29, 2004.
Latest Update from the Field
Work plan for antenatal care in hospital
By Prof. A.K. Susheela - Project leader, September 10, 2007 04:44 PM
Our protocol for the work is as follows and all the donors should know about it. Fluoride literally does all the damage to the growing embryo / babies born.
(1) The hospital chosen = “Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital”. Mainly women of the lower socioeconomic strata visit this hospital
(2) After the Gynecologist & Obstetrician checks the pregnant women- those with pregnancy less than 20 wks, and having no other serious health problems are directed to our staff of the Foundation, occupying a room in the hospital next to the Antenatal Clinic
(3) We check the hemoglobin using a digital equipment and we show the data to the women, and if it is less than 11 gm/dl (i.e. anaemic)– is chosen to our study group (sample group)
(4) We collect the urine of the women for testing for fluoride in the Foundation.
(5) A member of our team (Medical Social worker, would visit the home of the women who have less than 11 gm/dl hemoglobin, the very next day to collect a sample of the drinking water which the family uses for cooking and drinking.
(6) The urine and drinking water samples are tested for fluoride in our Foundation. If fluoride is more than normal permissible limits (urine fluoride 0.1 – 1.0 mg/L; water 1.1 mg/L and above) we would provide counseling and shift them to safer drinking water source.
(7) In counseling focus is to eliminate all fluoride sources (water, food, toothpaste etc) and promote nutritive diet to have adequate Calcium, Iron, Folic acid, Vitamin C, E and Antioxidants, through dairy products, vegetables and fruits.
(8) We explain to them simple recipes, such as vegetable soups, salads, sauces (chutneys), vegetable sandwiches, how to make and how to enjoy good food. It is not necessary to buy expensive food; inexpensive vegetables & fruits which have high nutritive value is what we promote.
(9) We provide to every women a little booklet in local language – how to practise diet improvements.
(10) These women will be retested for (1) hemoglobin (2) urinary fluoride at least 4 more times before she delivers and every time we ensure by counseling that her diet is good. Testing for Hb and urine fluoride is repeated.
(i) 10 – 20 wks pregnancy
(ii) 24 – 28 wks pregnancy
(iii) 32 – 36 wks pregnancy
(iv) 36 – and above wks pregnancy
(11) It is our observations, that every women like to have a healthy baby – born with good intelligence and no deformities.
(12) The women whom we recruit now if under 20 wks pregnancy, would begin to deliver by January 2008 (we shall certainly share our data of the babies born with Ashoka /Donors)
(13) The baby weight will be recorded from the hospital labour room records.
(14) For all our women, on the case history sheet, we stick a big red sticker, that is made clear to everyone and through the sticker we identify our women, when they deliver.
(15) There is a control group, where we do not intervene. They are also women with less than (1) 11 gm/dl hemoglobin and (2) high urinary fluoride, but we do not intervene with our counseling. We keep checking and monitoring them at the same 4 intervals for Hb and urinary fluoride and when delivered, the baby weight is also recorded.
(16) If everything goes well – our Sample group women should deliver babies of 2.5 kg wt and above. This is achieved through withdrawal of fluoride and promotion of nutritive food. The Control group – may deliver babies of less than 2 kg body weight or even less. Some may be an abortion / still birth.
We are attaching a few pictures of the (1) Hospital, (2) Discussion with the hospital authorities and (3) waiting room of the pregnant women.
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