Four Key Club Ambassadors to UNICEF are visiting projects in Swaziland and blogging about their experience. Below is their fifth post.
Today we observed a mobile health team giving health services to the children who attend the neighborhood care point (NCP). An NCP is a Swazi innovation created by communites where volunteers provide food, basic education, and health services to children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Because of neighborhood care points, our staff member told us, children living with grandparents, or on thier own, now become visibile and have a better chance for suvivial into adulthood.
The children got Vitamin A and other supplements, were weighed, and were given other health services.All the information was recorded in a log. If a child is determined that they need more assistance, the nurses either provide medicine right there or they take the child to a clinic or hospital. We met with nurses who visit as many as 7 NCPs a day. This photo shows a child being weighed and one getting registered.
- Amanda
