See other videos about our work in
Mali and
Kenya
International Development Week is February 7-13 and highlights what Canada and Canadians are doing to make a better world.
In countries such as Mali and Kenya, the Canadian Red Cross has worked to support local Red Cross and Ministries of Health to provide life-saving medication and health education messages, through community health workers and Red Cross volunteers, to improve basic health services to people living in hard-to-access rural communities.
The Canadian Red Cross has recently completed development projects in Africa, namely the Mali and Kenya
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) projects. See some photos of these achievements here:
The Red Cross and community health workers weigh pregnant women
Men learning about health programs from the Red Cross in Kenya.
A woman and her baby meet with a Red Cross worker to check on the baby's progress.
Women filling watering cans at a well to water their fields.
Men and women learn about health programs.
Red Cross workers look at vaccination list with local community health worker
See other photos about our work in
Mali and
Kenya
In Mali, the MNCH project is run by the Malian and Canadian Red Cross in collaboration with Mali’s Ministry for Health and Public Hygiene. The project supports Community Health Workers (CHWs) who are placed in 224 Malian villages which had little or no access to health care and excessively high mortality rates. The CHWs provide immediate treatment for malaria, diarrhoea, malnutrition, and pneumonia – the diseases responsible for 75% of premature deaths amongst children under 5.
In Kenya,
MNCH projects also had the same goals of reducing maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality, strengthening links between communities and Ministry of Health, and increasing communities’ capacity to mitigate risks and diversify their livelihoods, with a focus on ensuring gender equity throughout the project.
Help us continue to save lives globally by providing financial
support to MNCH programs.