the road to health: children of armenia fund
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The Road to Health: Children of Armenia Fund. Overview. Common health conditions in villages Intervention, Prevention, & Treatment Hopes for the future Miscellaneous. What is COAF?. COAF is a nonprofit organization - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Road to Health:Children of Armenia
Fund
OverviewCommon health conditions in villages
Intervention, Prevention, & Treatment
Hopes for the future
Miscellaneous
What is COAF?COAF is a nonprofit organization
Works with community members to lower poverty in villages, with a focus on children
Founded 2000: focus on education, health, social, and economic growth
Work in the Armavir Marz (region) specifically in Baghramyan Region consisting of 15 rural communities with roughly 20,000 people
My Experience with COAF
Worked in 5 COAF villages: Karakert, Dalarik, Lernagog, Miasnikyan, and Shenik
Helped with the English camps and designated COAF-Summer Camps for ages 6-17
Created activities and presented to the children about dental/personal hygiene, nutrition, exercise, and anti-smoking
Common Health Conditions
Dental Decay
Malnutrition
Water/Sanitation
Soil-transmitted helminths
Lice
Anemia
Risky Behaviors (i.e. smoking, alcohol)
Today we’re going to focus on 3 main conditions
MalnutritionWhat is malnutrition?
Adolescents have unhealthy habits that can be difficult to break
Availability of healthy foods in schools
“Culture” of food
Parental Influence
Dental DecayCommon for all children, especially 6-9 year olds
Dental clinics (2 for 15 villages)
Sugar content of food
Access to water
Taboos of brushing teeth/Parental Influence
Sanitation/WaterRun down schools, homes, stores
Running and functional toilets/sinks
Many of the villages do not have clean drinking water at home or in the schools
Water only certain times of the day to take showers, wash up or do laundry
No culture of bringing water from home to school-sometimes don’t drink all day at school
COAF’s main goal is to find effective mechanisms to ensure sustainability of their health programs
Accessibility and affordability of health care
Work with many other organizations to help with the health care, home and work conditions, and much more
Intervention, Prevention, &
Treatment
Hopes for the FutureFor the villages to be able to use these
interventions and education that COAF and their supporting organizations have carried out to sustain their villages
Have the children use all their potential to do well for themselves, and give back to their homes and help it thrive