Develop Hygiene Policies for Your Preschool Ministry
https://www.lifeway.com/en/articles/developing-hygiene-policies-for-preschool-ministry
GFA introduces health and hygiene initiative for slum dwellers
GFA’s ministry in Asia
India (MNN) -- Picture this: you're one of the 500 million people living on
less than $2 USD a day in South Asia. More specifically, you're one of
India's 360 million people living below the poverty line -- 28.65 rupees/56
cents USD in cities, 22.42 rupees/44 cents USD in villages.
One day, your child gets sick.
You don't know what's wrong and even if you did, you're too poor to buy any
medicine. The nearest medical facility is days away.
What do you do?
This scenario is why Gospel for Asia is adding a health and hygiene
component to their ministry. Teaching basic hygiene and first-aid as a
community outreach will now be a vital part of GFA's Women's Fellowship
ministry.
In a recent trip to one of South Asia's largest slums, GFA workers realized
the importance of this addition. Read their account here.
They met with 80 women who coordinate 10,000 GFA Women's Fellowships across
the region for first-aid training. In addition, common myths and
misunderstandings were shared and corrected.
Several leaders told the worker that "if even a fraction of those first-aid
trainings make it back to the mothers of India, many children's lives will
be saved."
According to GFA, about 80% of diseases in Asia are curable, even
preventable. One World Bank report shows that open defecation--a common and
widespread practice in India--accounts for much of the country's excessive
child stunting. Open defecation is also a major source of childhood
disease.
Another World Bank report details the importance of sanitation training.
Six-year-olds exposed to basic sanitary practices during their first year
of life were more likely to recognize letters and basic numbers.
Pray for the successful implementation of this new health and hygiene
program. Pray that GFA workers will have opportunities to share the Gospel
as they care for basic needs.
Hesperian Health Guides
Beginning with the development of the classic Where There Is No Doctor in the mountains of Mexico in the early 1970s, Hesperian Health Guides has developed and distributed health materials now available in over 80 languages. We work with hundreds of partners who help us update and field test materials to ensure they are accurate and easy-to-use. We take all this work to scale with a paid staff of under 25 and an ever-increasing number of volunteers, currently at over 200. Hesperian is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and is supported by the generous gifts of individual and institutional donors. Other important revenue streams come from the sale of books, resources, and digital tools.
In the Heart of South Asian Slums
GFA’s ministry in Asia
http://www.gfa.org/news/articles/in-the-heart-of-south-asian-slums/?c=1&cm_mmc=GFA-_-Email-_-2903832-_-131029%20Digest%20186%20WB3A-G500%20%283%29
http://www.gfa.org
A couple on staff had the opportunity to travel to the mission field and visit one of the largest slums in Asia. Through their time spent in this slum, they saw just how real the importance of basic health and hygiene is to those living in poor conditions. This is Amber’s reflection of her time in the slums of South Asia.
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http://www.water.cc/no-water-no-hope
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http://www.samaritanspurse.org/what-we-do/water
http://www.samaritanspurse.org
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