RE : Re: [pronut-hiv] Girl Guides Anemia Prevention Badge Project (3)

["Joséphine kayumba" <joskay20@yahoo.fr>]

Dear Alice,

  Nutritionists or nurse or experts in related subject can train the Girl Guides. I'm a nutritionist working in Rwanda, I have trained girl guides here in Rwanda using this manual.  The document is well developped, its explain causes of anemia and how to prevent it in the community in simple ways.
   
  The trainers need to be familiar with the training manual and to have a girl guide facilitator to help in composing songs, poems, slogans about preventing anemia.
  
The best thing is that after the training of trainers; participants has to prepare an action plan in order to implement what they have learned.
  
Regards
   
  Josephine Kayumba
  Nutrition&HIV/AIDS Officer
  TRAC
Kigali/Rwanda
   
   
  
-----Alice Ojwang-Ndong wrote:
  
This a very good project.My question is this, who will train the Girl Guides? 

Alice Ojwang-Ndong
MNutr (Stellenbosch), Nutrition and Dietetic Consultant
Center for Nutrition, Education and Research
P.O.Box 8105 - 00200 Nairobi
Kenya
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-----ProNut-HIV wrote:


FANTA and the Regional Center for Quality of Health Care (RCQHC), in
partnership with the African Regional Office of the World Association of
Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), designed the Girl Guides Anemia
Prevention Badge Project, a program to reach adolescent girls in East
and Southern Africa with information and activities on anemia prevention
and control. Under the program, Girl Guides (ages 7-18) can earn a badge
in anemia prevention through educational programs and community
involvement in anemia control. FANTA and RCQHC developed an Anemia
Prevention Badge Handbook and Workbook for the Girl Guides as well as a
training manual for Girl Guide leaders. 

Anemia and iron deficiency remain at epidemic levels among women and
children in many nations. Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is associated
with 22% of maternal deaths and 24% of perinatal deaths, according to a
recent meta-analysis. Correcting anemia of any severity reduces the risk
of death, the analysis also showed. These estimates of the maternal and
perinatal deaths associated with IDA underscore the importance of
implementing a package of interventions, such as the Girl Guides badge
project, to address the multiple causes of anemia. 

Download Anemia Prevention Badge Handbook, Workbook and Guiders'
Training Manual
at:http://www.fantaproject.org/publications/girlguides.shtml