Healthcare

Kinder Feeding Program

The leading cause of death in children from developing countries is protein-energy malnutrition. Protein-energy malnutrition occurs when children are unable to receive the proper amount of protein and calories that are needed daily. When a child is severely undernourished their body can not properly deal with growth, disease and/or infection.

Kinder Feeding Program is designed to help provide high protein drinks with school lunches, coinciding with clean, drinkable water, children’s multivitamins and deworming medication with goals of promoting healthy, confident children that can better learn, grow and thrive daily.

With the help of DOERS Mission, a kinder located in the small, poor community of El Chilar will now receive dry milk mixed with a high protein powder daily. Our hope is with adding extra calories and protein to the 20-25 small children that attend the kinder we will be able to see a difference in weight and productivity. The protein drinks will be made with clean water during lunch everyday. We hope to see this project continue sustainably and productively so we can later expand to other schools.
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Donation of Vitamins and Anti-Parasitics for Rural Schools

Thanks to Vitamin Angels, we have received more than 30,000 vitamins and anti-parasitic medicine. We are now able to distribute vitamins to several schools in Copan villages and vastly improve the health of more than 400 children.

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Hygiene Workshops and Visiting Doctor

Hygiene workshops have been set up in nine schools and a visiting doctor program has been initiated with six schools participating so far. The doctor has recently visited El Chilar School and began distributing anti-parasitics to children in rural schools around the Copan Ruinas area. Pictured below, babies are being weighed to ensure their weight is healthy and children are being taught the importance of washing their hands often.

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Dental Hygiene Workshops

We have a very difficult time here getting toothbrushes and toothpaste for children. By the time they are 6, most kids have rotted teeth, and many adults in the rural villages have lost most of theirs. Because we don’t have potable water in the villages, most people substitute coke or soft drinks, and even put them in baby bottles to keep the children hydrated.

Ellen is working with Red Cross, World Vision and a couple other local agencies (also independently) to set up dental hygiene programs for the children. The parents earn about $2.50 per day so clearly they cannot afford toothbrushes and toothpaste.

Ellen has had over 700 toothbrushes and 200 tubes of toothpaste donated and has organized dental hygiene workshops in rural aldeas where children are taught why and how to brush their teeth and what to do if their families don’t have toothpaste.