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Dr. Julian Brown with part of his medical staff from United Kingdom give a week training.
Health Amplifier is also involved in the construction of classrooms in the local Chini school. Overcrowded classrooms are a real problem in the school, which affect the educational developments of the pupils.
Our nutrition program helps to fund school lunches at Chini School. The goal is to feed all the students from the school during lunch time every day. The menu includes beans and maize.
A drop of 55.5% in recurrence of cavities in definitive teeth, 79.78% in primary teeth and a drop in 57.4% in the need for new fillings.
We are very excited to announce the completion of our Mother and Child Centre and Diabetes Specialist Unit.
We are excited to let you know is that our Mother and Child Center and Diabetes specialist is near to completion. We are very thankful to all of those who have been financially supporting this project.
Our dental school program has been a success. 564 children from Chini School in Kikavu, were screened, and 222 tooth cavities have been treated.
We fully implemented out toothbrushing programme in Kikavu primary school this year. Sofia trained all the teachers on the importance of dental hygiene as well as technique in July 2017.
Throughout the year we have provided each student with a piece of fruit each month, as an incentive for healthy eating. August to December we complimented the fruit programme with the provision of over 20,000 school lunches.
We have introduced a Community Care Plan led by Dr August Temu, the Kikavu Village Officers and ten local volunteers.
We are at the planning stage of constructing a new centre within the grounds of the dispensary in order to provide increased specialist care to mothers and children and transform the concerning problem of maternal deaths and infant mortality.
We want to take the opportunity to explain why there is a need to build our new healthcare centre, the complications the community currently suffer with and how you can help.
We have just finished training some fantastic volunteers from the community, who are going to support our Community Care Plan and help implement positive and sustainable behavioural changes. Our project manager explains.
Toothbrushing is something that is a part of every day life in Western culture, however here and Tanzania there is very little education on why it's important. We have introduced this concept in the local primary school, here we explain how.