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Healthy Child Uganda (HCU) is a community-based partnership that works with local citizens to identify and solve the problems that most impact their children’s health. Known locally as Omwaana N’amagara Marungi, HCU helps develop training programs and provide support services for children. HCU is committed to three guiding principles: participatory development, health promotion and sustainability. We help communities help themselves. We emphasize healthy practices such as immunization, good nutrition and preventing disease. We train volunteers to recognize and treat sick children within their communities. Most importantly, we are a partnership. Communities who choose to participate in HCU are actively involved in planning, training, and developing community initiatives.
The Good News
Communities really want to keep their children healthy. Children themselves are very resilient. Parents are resourceful. Communities are motivated for change. Healthy Child Uganda’s more than 350 volunteers work with 15,000 young children and their families. Over 80 Ugandan health workers trained by HCU care for sick children at local health centres. Volunteer Canadian pediatricians have helped since 1999. In HCU villages, volunteers register and regularly visit all children under five years. They give health talks, advice and refer sick children. They encourage families to participate in immunization clinics and other child health activities. Volunteers advocate for orphaned and disabled children and support “at risk” children. Twice a year, HCU volunteers support Child Health Days where children are weighed and receive immunizations and deworming medicine. Skits, puppetry and songs are used for health teaching.