I received an email back from Wings of Hope, the orphanage in PAP that had two children recently die. The cause was cholera, and they've been able to stop the cholera and all are back to normal health now. Thanks for your prayers!!
My friend Charles forwarded this new website to me, just released by the World Health Organization. It's on Nutrition issues.
What's encouraging to me to see is that their initial focus is on some of the areas that we're engaged in for Pestel:
Vitamin A
Iron deficiency anemia
I was pleased to read this in particular:
In settings where the prevalence of anaemia in preschool or school-age children is 20% or higher, the WHO recommends the intermittent use of iron supplements as a public health intervention to prevent anaemia and improve the iron status among these children.
Pestel's anemia prevalence is 50%. As part of our Anemia Campaign in Pestel we are trying the intermittent (weekly) dosing of iron in some Sections and comparing it to daily dosing of iron in other Sections.
So the WHO site is good validation that we're on the right track!
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