Health Education Among the Ultra-poor
Summary
To improve health among the school children in the Surmang catchment by advancing health education
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
There are over 500 children in this region who attend primary school. Their families are nomads and farmers who make less that US14ยข/day. The schools are unheated and have broken windows and mud floors; no soccer pitches, no basketball courts. Are attended by children who have no soap, toothbrushes, one set of clothing.
Activities
Provide stoves, repair windows, install floors; install soccer and basketball courts; blackboards, desks chairs, pencils, notebooks, winter clothing, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap. Comm. Health Workers teach health ed., visits by Surmang's docs
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $12,786
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $32,714
Total Funding Goal: $45,500
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This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Decrease in chronic upper GI problems; Decrease of tooth loss due to infection, lack of early detection. Decrease in iodine-deficiency through regular examination. Decrease in flu-type virus due to lack of clothing and heat
Project Message
"We can have a big impact on the health of these very poor people by teaching them when they are young, when the teachers are their own people. We can influence public health education by example."
- Phuntsok Dongdrup, Clinic Director, Surmang Foundation
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Lee Weingrad
Founder
13536 Gold Hill Rd
Boulder, CO 80302
United States
+86 10 6456 0929
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Surmang Foundation
13536 Gold Hill Rd.
Boulder,
CO
80302
United States
+8610 6456 0929
http://www.surmang.org
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
China
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about China, read the Human Development Report on China or the Wikipedia entry for China.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 25, 2008
Latest Update from the Field
Public School Health Education
By Lee Weingrad - CEO, May 19, 2009 11:20 AM
We also decided to create a football pitch and with the help of Nike, will provide them with soccer balls, shoes and uniforms.
It seems that we have to raise the whole sea to move this little boat. When we've done that, in July we can begin to train the Community Health Workers to teach health education. This whole project has definite parameters --unlike our other clinic projects-- and we should be able to see results this year.
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