About the Program
Healthcare is essential for the survival and
development of the women, children and their entire families. And good health does contribute massively to the development and the ability to escape poverty for the poor communities.
The volunteer program will promote and deliver healthcare to the poor women and families living in isolated and hard to reach areas. The health volunteers will work as health coach, advisors, educators, liaison, promoters, outreach workers and counselors.
The volunteer program will help the women and families to learn about maternal health, childcare, nutrition, preventable illness, diabetes, high blood pressure, malaria and diseases that affect life and their prevention. The volunteer will in addition learn about how to build “Tippy Taps” near their toilets so that
hand washing after toilet use is easy. With Tippy Taps build near the toilets,
families’ health improves and saves lives of the women, children and household
members.
You will be working in rural setting and in the communities with poor healthcare services and with no medical facility present. In the community where you will be working, the people here walk over 15 kilometres to access a medical facility.
You Role as a Volunteer
The volunteer working on this volunteer program will be required to carry some health materials about the different health issues affecting women such as maternal health, nutrition, childcare, malaria, typhoid, HIV/AIDS among others. Materials such as charts illustrating the process to better hygiene, gloves, water purifiers such as water guard and organize information prior setting off to the volunteer trip. You are also encouraged to carry along any materials that you think can support you as you carry out your role of Hygiene and Sanitation Educator.
While in Uganda, you will be working with village health workers, local leaders, teachers in school and the staff to make the program more effective.
Tasks for volunteers:
Information sharing health: This will involves
meeting with women groups, visiting families
to communicate, share and sensitize communities and teach/train about maternal health, nutrition, childcare, hygiene and sanitation. Information on waste
management, boiling water for drinking, hand wash after toilet use and before
eating food.
Build Tippy Taps: this
focuses on ensuring that each family has a Tippy tap in their homes. Therefore,
the volunteer will be responsible for helping families learn how to build Tippy
taps near their toilets and make sure that each family sets up a small garden
under the Tippy tap that they will use to grow vegetables.
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