The MAMA Project
A healthy child is a healthy community and a healthy community is a healthy strong and productive nation
Every person has a right to lead a healthy productive life. We all have a right to a nutritious meal to promote our well being.
The Microjustice Kenya MAMA Project is one of the nutrition and child survival project that takes care of the mother /child and women of reproductive age in order to minimise maternal and infant mortality as well as to eradicate malnutrition as we promote healthy living and healthy life styles.
Activities
Deworming
and
Supplementation
We provide dewormers to the through community(age 6 months and above) through events and medical brigades in partnership with the ministry of health to ensure a worm free community.
To curb malnutrition , we provide families with formulas with micro nutrients power and ready to eat therapeutic food to help them regain the missing nutrients in their everyday meals.
Egg supplementation with iodized salt and oil helps improve the nutritious status of the beneficiary.
School
Health
Clubs
We are what we eat. To avoid future lifestyle sickness for our future leaders we create awareness on nutrition and healthy lifestyle in the schools to encourage the little ones adapt a healthy lifestyle that promotes healthy eating and physical exercises from the start, which will curb future lifestyle illness.
We encourage these children to be nutrition ambassadors in their families and amongst their peers.
WASH
Water
Sanitation &
Hygiene
Water is life yet it is not accessible by all. We appreciate that the vulnerable people do not have clean and safe water and therefore work together to provide filtration and chlorination water bucket systems.
Reproductive
Health
In a new age, girls in both primary and secondary school are becoming more sexually active as they discover their sexuality and as they brace being young adults. Because of this young girl between the ages of 11 and 18 need care and advice as they form a crucial vulnerable group.
Maternal
and
child care
Child bearing age women, pregnant women & lactating mothers
In a marginalised community or as a vulnerable person, pregnancy and motherhood come with many challenges that include difficult access to pre-natal and post-natal clinics and poor nutrition which may lead to infant or maternal mortality.
We therefore reach out to this group of women and offer child survival training using the care groups model. Neighbor women groups and support groups are formed to create a wider outreach, create ownership of the program and to offer moral support and sharing to each other.
Single under-age mothers
In todays era, teenagers are sexually active early in life and the number of vulnerable underage pregnancies are on the rise.
Fearful, traumatized and ashamed, these group of girls find it difficult to go for clinics. We reach out to encourage and walk this journey with them, discouraging abortion which may lead to deaths while encouraging self love, self acceptance and restoring their dignity.
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
To achieve our goal of a healthy community we continuously access and monitor the nutritional status and progress of the community (height, weight, M.U.A.C) especially expectant mothers and children under 19 years old while giving them the nutritious messages and advice on their diet according to their resources.
By taking the weight, height and mid circumference, this determines the community nutritional status. Using the collected data, we can follow up the development of the children.
