Education

Education is the basis of all we do here at HHF. Yes, we provide many services from food to pre and post natal checks to newborn assessments to immunizations to a center for children with kwashiorkor to a laying-in center for high risk OB's to the services of health agents in move than 100 villages served by HHF. But the main leg on which all of it rests is "EDUCATION."

Visitors from the states often give inservices to staff - from the latest techniques in newborn resusitation to the proper technique in doing certain tests, to the latest in diabetis care. Staff hold weekly inservices for other staff in reviewing such things as emergency evacuation of a high risk mother to proper injection sites for immunizations. And, every day, the mothers who come to the Center for evaluation and consultation are first, as a group, given education in the many aspects of pregnancy and newborn care. The women at the laying in center have classes 5 days a week as do the parents of the children with kwash. The future for the people we serve is not just what WE do for them now, but what we have taught them to do for themselves.
Till next time. God bless
Mary Ann