Health & Nutrition

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application/pdf Case Study of Fatuma Mussa Afar Region, Ethiopia June 2013Fatuma Mussa is living on the side of the highway connecting Djibouti to Semera town in Afar region lives with her husband and her son Mohammed Issey in their dome-shaped hut. The village where Fatuma lives is severely affected by shortage of water which has forced them to entirely depend on water trucking that is provided by government and non-government organizations like Save the Children.21/02/2014175KB
application/pdfCase Study of Hassen Ibrahim Afar Region, Ethiopia June 2013Hassen Ibrahim is a clinical nurse by profession working in the under five clinic in the Elidaar health centre in Afar region. He has been recently trained by Save the Children on Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) and SC treatment protocol.21/02/2014176KB
application/pdfCase Study of Hawi Ali Afar Region, Ethiopia June 2013Hawi is Ahmed’s aunt who has brought him to the Asayita hospital for treatment for severe acute malnutrition. They live in a small rural village called Mamule in Afar region. Ahmed, two years and four months old has been in the SC centre for the past eight days.21/02/2014176KB
application/pdfCase Study of Muru Mohammed Afar Region, Ethiopia June 2013Muru Mohammed is currently seven months pregnant and has a two year old son Andahey Ahmed. Her husband lives in Asayita Woreda which is 170 kms away from Elidaar where she currently lives with her son.27/02/2014174KB
application/pdfCase Study of Rabia Ahmed Afar Region, Ethiopia June 2013Rabia Ahmed, 24 has been working for Save the Children as OTP officer for the last two months in Elidaar District, in Afar Region. She mainly provides technical support to health posts and health centres to properly treat children and mothers with moderately acute malnutrition.27/02/2014174KB
application/pdfENGINE’s nutrition support change rural mother's life Beseatu and her family is one the beneficiaries of ENGINE’s project poultry and homestead gardening interventions aimed to improve maternal and child nutrition within the first 1,000 days of life. To improve her children’s diet diversity, Beseatu received 10 hens and 2 cockerels of improved breed and was trained on poultry management. She learned to prepare homemade feed by mixing nutritious ingredients.01/06/2015327KB
application/pdfAIDS Widower Now Able to Feed and Educate her 8 ChildrenA case study of Shewawork Neji who is a widow with eight children. Shewawork is one of the beneficiaries of ENGINE's project. The project provided her 12 vaccinated chickens of an improved breed and assisted her in planting a homestead vegetable garden. Shewawork learned to mix ingredients to make a homemade chicken feed and other management techniques to support her chickens when egg-laying production is low. 01/06/2015341KB
application/pdfCase study of Malika Ali, Afar Region, Ethiopia, May 2015Malika, has three children (Taisa Kaloita, female, 8, Fatima Kaloita, female, 5, and Mohamed kaloita, male, 2,). They live in a very remote rural village called Eligalla, in the Afar Region, Ethiopia. In Afar Region, access to basic health service is extremely difficult. 15/07/2015258KB
application/pdfCase study of Hawa Momin, Afar, Ethiopia, March 2015Hawa Momin is a mother of two children who lives in a very remote rural area in the Afar Regional State of Ethiopia. There is no access to basic health care near the area where she lives. As a result, she had to walk for more than three hours to reach to Ewa health centre to get treatment for her sick child.15/07/2015242KB
application/pdfCase study of Elsa Desalegn, SNNPR, Ethiopia, May 2015Elsa Desalegn, 21, is a health extension worker at Moroncho Goriche health post, Goriche district of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State, Ethiopia. She serves 8,238 people in her locality. As a health extension worker she provides services such as, immunization for under five years children, growth monitoring of young children, family planning, Anti Natal Care (ANC), Postnatal Care (PNC), treatment of children with common childhood illness, regular home visit and nutrition counseling. 15/07/2015282KB
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