ICROSS extends primary health care programmes.
For 30 years, the emphasis of ICROSS primary care has been improving immunisation, creating support mechanisms for public health and community medicine and establishing innovations in disease control, reproductive health and nutrition. In 1981 the founder Dr Michael Meegan launched his first disease control programme. This focused on disease supplements that would benefit children under five and women in the post natal stage.
Immunisation programmes have since the beginning of our programmes reached 14 districts and in all of our operational clinical services, we are immunising 90% of children between 9 months and 4 years old.
Every ICROSS clinic and programme is based upon community responsibility and ownership in managing their primary healthcare/public health programme. ICROSS has greatly expanded the concept of primary health care. It includes social equity, reproductive health responsibility and safe sex. The rights of women to choose comprehensive child survival and focused safe motherhood.
The centre of our primary health care programme‘s measurable impact in maternal and child health.
When Prof David Morley began working with ICROSS in 1981, he introduced the fundamental concept of children teaching children basic health promotion. A critical component of the success was the fact that the communities owned the decision making and the health prioritisation. Today (20th April 2011), we are extending the work created by Prof David Morley and building new diarrhoea control, neonatal tetanus and neonatal control. The success of reproductive health interventions have resulted in a dramatic decrease in maternal morbidity, mortality and suffering. We remain committed to the long term reduction in neonatal tetanus, malaria, trachoma, sexually transmitted infection, tropical dermatitis, water borne diseases and all preventable diseases cause by injustice, poverty and hunger.
Dr Michael Meegan met today with Ministry of Health nurses working in ICROSS programmes to discuss strategies for improvements in ICROSS long term disease prevention and public health activities. In partnership with the govt of Kenya and working within the UN, UNICEF, and WHO frameworks, ICROSS is building long term strategic policies for and with communities that will determine the long term focus of our maternal child health care for the next decade
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Internationally renowned tribal rights leader joins ICROSS team.
For more on this update please check our site at http://icrossinternational.org/news.aspx?id=102
Peter Saitaga, one of Kenya's most famous Maasai leaders has joined ICROSS. P Ole Saitaga who represents Maasai tribal communities across the vast savannah has been an ambassador of the Maasai around the World. Together with the Zulu, the Maasai are the two tribes that are known by everyone. Of the 6,000 tribes in Africa, few are as respected or known as the Maasai. P Ole Saitaga has worked with communities served by ICROSS for over 25 years. He is now the ICROSS community representative and spokesperson for ICROSS rural development projects. ICROSS works across a vast terrain spanning over 26,400 square Kms of Africas great Rift Valley.
Together with other elders and Maasai leaders the community spokesman said " We have worked closely since 1983 with Dr Mike Meegan and ICROSS, ICROSS is Maasai, Maasai is ICROSS. the great success of our projects is that we the communities own the work. Many people are jealous of the great success of our work. Many see the Maasai projects created through ICROSS as a wonderful way of rethinking AID and development. ICROSS is about us , about the people, in our ways , in our language, through our cultures. Some have challenged this, others tried to steal money raised by Dr Meegan, others have tried to steal even our work. Because we own the projects, ICROSS can not be stolen, it is ours. The day will come when all development will be driven by the African communities. We the Maasai believe in determining our own ideas of change. We will not accept ideas imposed without us. Dr Michael Meegan has lived among us, learnt our culture, our language we encourage others to do the same. " Speaking among the Maasai today, the Maasai leader, now ICROSS ambassador at large said " We welcome those who respect our culture, our traditions and our ways. We want people to learn from us, experience our civilisation and our way of life, you are welcome to see our work and the special approach of ICROSS which belongs to the way of life of our people"
Dr Michael Meegan added " Saitaga has worked with us gor many years and is deeply loved and respected across the Maasai communities and clans in all districts, he knows our programmes for decades and is a dynamic witness to how the ICROSS model has worked over generations"
ICROSS, which stands for "the International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation" is a Kenyan-based non-governmental organization founded by Michael Meegan, Joseph Barnes and Thomas O'Riordan which specialises in long term primary health, community health care and public health programmes. The organisation's headquarters are based in Ngong, Rift Valley, Kenya. ICROSS www.icrossinternational.org . ICROSS has a long established research programme with a number of different patrners and research collaborators.
[edit] Activities
ICROSS www.icrosskenya.org works as a Kenyan-based development NGO, with a focus in the field of health,[1][2] with key international lectures [3] including the RedR Future shocks lecture,.[4] ICROSS is responsible for a large terminal care programme and a series of public health programmes. One of ICROSS's key research streams has been investigating means of solar disinfection (SODIS) of contaminated drinking water, and has helped conduct a number of control trials of SODIS.[5] Engaged in multi country collaborative programmes www.rcsi.ie/hwts09 ICROSS stresses traditional tribal values, building development programmes through the exisyting decision systems and creating locally driven agendas.
International profile ICROSS campaigns have included Africa awakes which tries to change the stereotypes and negative perceptions of Africa www.africa-awakes.com These exhibitions have received wide media coverage in Italy and France. ICROSS public health work has been cited Internationally , medical work has appeared in key scienticif journals since 1981. Meegan who received many international awards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Elmore-Meegan was featured in BBC's Hardtalk current affair's programme for his work for ICROSS[6] while in 2006 the organisation was the subject of an award winning documentary by Irish Television.[7] ICROSS and its Founders have received widespread recognition for their work, especially in long term public health and creating lasting community development programmes. ICROSS spcialises in long term pastoralist health programmes, the most recent example of which was opened in December 2010 at Ilkilorit, Maasai land in Kenya. They have been covered extensively in the media, most recently for SODIS and for Africa awakes campaigns fighting racism, prejudice and stereotypes. In 2003 the founder received International person of the year in Ireland and in 2006 was the second person ever to receive a D Med Honoris Causa for his work in International health.www.nui.ie/college/docs/citations/2006/meegan.pdf
ICROSS work is widely cited ( see google scholar ) and the administration is entirely Africanied since August 2000.
Media news items include research http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/fol060732/proj634131 http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/letter-2003-10-16.html The International NGO which has multi lateral and bi lateral donors. Since 2003 the expansion of ICROSS International has seen the creation of an International Advisory board in 2009 chaired by Dr Davida de La Harpe. In October 2009 ICROSS launched www.icrossinternational.org and www.icrosskenya.org
Michael Meegan has also written numerous books on his work with ICROSS including 'All Will Be Well'(the successor to 'All Shall Be Well'), 'Surprised by Joy' and 'Changing the World 2008 A new series of books is being published by eye books www.eye-books.con
In January 2010 ICROSS Kenya extended its Rural health programmes. In March ICROSS Kenya began legal action in Ireland to try and establlish where funds raised for Kenyan projects had gone. The co founder of ICROSS Dr Joe Barnes installed a new Board of Directors in ICROSS Ireland july 2010 and funding to ICROSS Kenya programmes resumed. This funding was raised by the Founders
Peter Saitaga, one of Kenya's most famous Maasai leaders has joined ICROSS. P Ole Saitaga who represents Maasai tribal communities across the vast savannah has been an ambassador of the Maasai around the World. Together with the Zulu, the Maasai are the two tribes that are known by everyone. Of the 6,000 tribes in Africa, few are as respected or known as the Maasai. P Ole Saitaga has worked with communities served by ICROSS for over 25 years. He is now the ICROSS community representative and spokesperson for ICROSS rural development projects. ICROSS works across a vast terrain spanning over 26,400 square Kms of Africas great Rift Valley.
Together with other elders and Maasai leaders the community spokesman said " We have worked closely since 1983 with Dr Mike Meegan and ICROSS, ICROSS is Maasai, Maasai is ICROSS. the great success of our projects is that we the communities own the work. Many people are jealous of the great success of our work. Many see the Maasai projects created through ICROSS as a wonderful way of rethinking AID and development. ICROSS is about us , about the people, in our ways , in our language, through our cultures. Some have challenged this, others tried to steal money raised by Dr Meegan, others have tried to steal even our work. Because we own the projects, ICROSS can not be stolen, it is ours. The day will come when all development will be driven by the African communities. We the Maasai believe in determining our own ideas of change. We will not accept ideas imposed without us. Dr Michael Meegan has lived among us, learnt our culture, our language we encourage others to do the same. " Speaking among the Maasai today, the Maasai leader, now ICROSS ambassador at large said " We welcome those who respect our culture, our traditions and our ways. We want people to learn from us, experience our civilisation and our way of life, you are welcome to see our work and the special approach of ICROSS which belongs to the way of life of our people"
Dr Michael Meegan added " Saitaga has worked with us gor many years and is deeply loved and respected across the Maasai communities and clans in all districts, he knows our programmes for decades and is a dynamic witness to how the ICROSS model has worked over generations"
ICROSS, which stands for "the International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation" is a Kenyan-based non-governmental organization founded by Michael Meegan, Joseph Barnes and Thomas O'Riordan which specialises in long term primary health, community health care and public health programmes. The organisation's headquarters are based in Ngong, Rift Valley, Kenya. ICROSS www.icrossinternational.org . ICROSS has a long established research programme with a number of different patrners and research collaborators.
[edit] Activities
ICROSS www.icrosskenya.org works as a Kenyan-based development NGO, with a focus in the field of health,[1][2] with key international lectures [3] including the RedR Future shocks lecture,.[4] ICROSS is responsible for a large terminal care programme and a series of public health programmes. One of ICROSS's key research streams has been investigating means of solar disinfection (SODIS) of contaminated drinking water, and has helped conduct a number of control trials of SODIS.[5] Engaged in multi country collaborative programmes www.rcsi.ie/hwts09 ICROSS stresses traditional tribal values, building development programmes through the exisyting decision systems and creating locally driven agendas.
International profile ICROSS campaigns have included Africa awakes which tries to change the stereotypes and negative perceptions of Africa www.africa-awakes.com These exhibitions have received wide media coverage in Italy and France. ICROSS public health work has been cited Internationally , medical work has appeared in key scienticif journals since 1981. Meegan who received many international awards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Elmore-Meegan was featured in BBC's Hardtalk current affair's programme for his work for ICROSS[6] while in 2006 the organisation was the subject of an award winning documentary by Irish Television.[7] ICROSS and its Founders have received widespread recognition for their work, especially in long term public health and creating lasting community development programmes. ICROSS spcialises in long term pastoralist health programmes, the most recent example of which was opened in December 2010 at Ilkilorit, Maasai land in Kenya. They have been covered extensively in the media, most recently for SODIS and for Africa awakes campaigns fighting racism, prejudice and stereotypes. In 2003 the founder received International person of the year in Ireland and in 2006 was the second person ever to receive a D Med Honoris Causa for his work in International health.www.nui.ie/college/docs/citations/2006/meegan.pdf
ICROSS work is widely cited ( see google scholar ) and the administration is entirely Africanied since August 2000.
Media news items include research http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/fol060732/proj634131 http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/letter-2003-10-16.html The International NGO which has multi lateral and bi lateral donors. Since 2003 the expansion of ICROSS International has seen the creation of an International Advisory board in 2009 chaired by Dr Davida de La Harpe. In October 2009 ICROSS launched www.icrossinternational.org and www.icrosskenya.org
Michael Meegan has also written numerous books on his work with ICROSS including 'All Will Be Well'(the successor to 'All Shall Be Well'), 'Surprised by Joy' and 'Changing the World 2008 A new series of books is being published by eye books www.eye-books.con
In January 2010 ICROSS Kenya extended its Rural health programmes. In March ICROSS Kenya began legal action in Ireland to try and establlish where funds raised for Kenyan projects had gone. The co founder of ICROSS Dr Joe Barnes installed a new Board of Directors in ICROSS Ireland july 2010 and funding to ICROSS Kenya programmes resumed. This funding was raised by the Founders
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Keeping in touch with ICROSS Programmes
As we extend our rural health programmes and activities we are also improving ways of sharing our work with friends and donors.
Our International web site is www.icrossinternational.org
We are replacing www.icrosskenya.org with a new site www.icross-africa.net
We are on facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67269670621 and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Icross/214121631935136
and will shortly launch a new discussion forum and help line in Kenya. you can follow us on twitter at IcrossAfrica
For more about ICROSS and our work in Africa please check out our sites and follow our work
ICROSS, which stands for "the International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation" is a Kenyan-based non-governmental organization founded by Michael Meegan, Joseph Barnes and Thomas O'Riordan which specialises in long term primary health, community health care and public health programmes. The organisation's headquarters are based in Ngong, Rift Valley, Kenya. ICROSS www.icrossinternational.org . ICROSS has a long established research programme with a number of different patrners and research collaborators.
[edit] Activities
ICROSS www.icrosskenya.org works as a Kenyan-based development NGO, with a focus in the field of health,[1][2] with key international lectures [3] including the RedR Future shocks lecture,.[4] ICROSS is responsible for a large terminal care programme and a series of public health programmes. One of ICROSS's key research streams has been investigating means of solar disinfection (SODIS) of contaminated drinking water, and has helped conduct a number of control trials of SODIS.[5] Engaged in multi country collaborative programmes www.rcsi.ie/hwts09 ICROSS stresses traditional tribal values, building development programmes through the exisyting decision systems and creating locally driven agendas.
International profile ICROSS campaigns have included Africa awakes which tries to change the stereotypes and negative perceptions of Africa www.africa-awakes.com These exhibitions have received wide media coverage in Italy and France. ICROSS public health work has been cited Internationally , medical work has appeared in key scienticif journals since 1981. Meegan who received many international awards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Elmore-Meegan was featured in BBC's Hardtalk current affair's programme for his work for ICROSS[6] while in 2006 the organisation was the subject of an award winning documentary by Irish Television.[7] ICROSS and its Founders have received widespread recognition for their work, especially in long term public health and creating lasting community development programmes. ICROSS spcialises in long term pastoralist health programmes, the most recent example of which was opened in December 2010 at Ilkilorit, Maasai land in Kenya. They have been covered extensively in the media, most recently for SODIS and for Africa awakes campaigns fighting racism, prejudice and stereotypes. In 2003 the founder received International person of the year in Ireland and in 2006 was the second person ever to receive a D Med Honoris Causa for his work in International health.www.nui.ie/college/docs/citations/2006/meegan.pdf
ICROSS work is widely cited ( see google scholar ) and the administration is entirely Africanied since August 2000.
Media news items include research http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/fol060732/proj634131 http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/letter-2003-10-16.html The International NGO which has multi lateral and bi lateral donors. Since 2003 the expansion of ICROSS International has seen the creation of an International Advisory board in 2009 chaired by Dr Davida de La Harpe. In October 2009 ICROSS launched www.icrossinternational.org and www.icrosskenya.org
Michael Meegan has also written numerous books on his work with ICROSS including 'All Will Be Well'(the successor to 'All Shall Be Well'), 'Surprised by Joy' and 'Changing the World 2008 A new series of books is being published by eye books www.eye-books.con
In January 2010 ICROSS Kenya extended its Rural health programmes. In March ICROSS Kenya began legal action in Ireland to try and establlish where funds raised for Kenyan projects had gone. The co founder of ICROSS Dr Joe Barnes installed a new Board of Directors in ICROSS Ireland july 2010 and funding to ICROSS Kenya programmes resumed. This funding was raised by the Founders
ICROSS comprehensive primary health Kenya
ICROSS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE AFRICA
ICROSS extends primary health care programmes. For 30 years, the emphasis of ICROSS primary care has been improving immunisation, creating support mechanisms for public health and community medicine and establishing innovations in disease control, reproductive health and nutrition. In 1981 the founder Dr Michael Meegan launched his first disease control programme. This focused on disease supplements that would benefit children under five and women in the post natal stage.
Immunisation programmes have since the beginning of our programmes reached 14 districts and in all of our operational clinical services, we are immunising 90% of children between 9 months and 4 years old. Every ICROSS clinic and programme is based upon community responsibility and ownership in managing their primary healthcare/public health programme. ICROSS has greatly expanded the concept of primary health care. It includes social equity, reproductive health responsibility and safe sex. The rights of women to choose comprehensive child survival and focused safe motherhood. The centre of our primary health care programme‘s measurable impact in maternal and child health.
When Prof David Morley began working with ICROSS in 1981, he introduced the fundamental concept of children teaching children basic health promotion. A critical component of the success was the fact that the communities owned the decision making and the health prioritisation. Today (20th April 2011), we are extending the work created by Prof David Morley and building new diarrhoea control, neonatal tetanus and neonatal control. The success of reproductive health interventions have resulted in a dramatic decrease in maternal morbidity, mortality and suffering. We remain committed to the long term reduction in neonatal tetanus, malaria, trachoma, sexually transmitted infection, tropical dermatitis, water borne diseases and all preventable diseases cause by injustice, poverty and hunger.
Dr Michael Meegan met today with Ministry of Health nurses working in ICROSS programmes to discuss strategies for improvements in ICROSS long term disease prevention and public health activities. In partnership with the govt of Kenya and working within the UN, UNICEF, and WHO frameworks, ICROSS is building long term strategic policies for and with communities that will determine the long term focus of our maternal child health care for the next decade
ICROSS extends primary health care programmes. For 30 years, the emphasis of ICROSS primary care has been improving immunisation, creating support mechanisms for public health and community medicine and establishing innovations in disease control, reproductive health and nutrition. In 1981 the founder Dr Michael Meegan launched his first disease control programme. This focused on disease supplements that would benefit children under five and women in the post natal stage.
Immunisation programmes have since the beginning of our programmes reached 14 districts and in all of our operational clinical services, we are immunising 90% of children between 9 months and 4 years old. Every ICROSS clinic and programme is based upon community responsibility and ownership in managing their primary healthcare/public health programme. ICROSS has greatly expanded the concept of primary health care. It includes social equity, reproductive health responsibility and safe sex. The rights of women to choose comprehensive child survival and focused safe motherhood. The centre of our primary health care programme‘s measurable impact in maternal and child health.
When Prof David Morley began working with ICROSS in 1981, he introduced the fundamental concept of children teaching children basic health promotion. A critical component of the success was the fact that the communities owned the decision making and the health prioritisation. Today (20th April 2011), we are extending the work created by Prof David Morley and building new diarrhoea control, neonatal tetanus and neonatal control. The success of reproductive health interventions have resulted in a dramatic decrease in maternal morbidity, mortality and suffering. We remain committed to the long term reduction in neonatal tetanus, malaria, trachoma, sexually transmitted infection, tropical dermatitis, water borne diseases and all preventable diseases cause by injustice, poverty and hunger.
Dr Michael Meegan met today with Ministry of Health nurses working in ICROSS programmes to discuss strategies for improvements in ICROSS long term disease prevention and public health activities. In partnership with the govt of Kenya and working within the UN, UNICEF, and WHO frameworks, ICROSS is building long term strategic policies for and with communities that will determine the long term focus of our maternal child health care for the next decade
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Michael Meegan lectures on poverty and suffering
The Founder of ICROSS Dr Michael Meegan gave a series of talks recently on global health and the changes in World poverty. Here are some extracts from a lecture on “ the rise of poverty in a rich world “
“We are divided just think about this for a moment the 200 richest people in the World own more than the 400 million poorest and 48 poorest countries account for less than 0.4% of global exports. Worse still According to the World bank the 500 richest people in the world own more than 50% of humanity.
50,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the conscience of the world. Being powerless and vulnerable in life makes these dying people even more invisible in death. That is about 210,000 children each week, or almost 11,000,000 children under age 5, each year. “
“ Its easy to get lost in the numbers the figures are overwhelming. 1.3 billion have no access to clean water; 3 billion have no access to sanitation; over a third of the planet have no access to electricity.”
“Think about our priorities here , 12% of the world's population uses 85% of its water. These 12% do not live in the Third World.”
This is why ICROSS and our partners remain committed to fighting poverty and the engines that drive the causes of poverty and suffering . unless we understand the forces and realities behind the numbers we simply observe the inevitable cycles and patterns that generate inequality. Unless the numbers become real people in our hearts we will watch them die. “
We will be sharing more extracts from lectures by Dr Michael Meegan throughout 2011.
“We are divided just think about this for a moment the 200 richest people in the World own more than the 400 million poorest and 48 poorest countries account for less than 0.4% of global exports. Worse still According to the World bank the 500 richest people in the world own more than 50% of humanity.
50,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the conscience of the world. Being powerless and vulnerable in life makes these dying people even more invisible in death. That is about 210,000 children each week, or almost 11,000,000 children under age 5, each year. “
“ Its easy to get lost in the numbers the figures are overwhelming. 1.3 billion have no access to clean water; 3 billion have no access to sanitation; over a third of the planet have no access to electricity.”
“Think about our priorities here , 12% of the world's population uses 85% of its water. These 12% do not live in the Third World.”
This is why ICROSS and our partners remain committed to fighting poverty and the engines that drive the causes of poverty and suffering . unless we understand the forces and realities behind the numbers we simply observe the inevitable cycles and patterns that generate inequality. Unless the numbers become real people in our hearts we will watch them die. “
We will be sharing more extracts from lectures by Dr Michael Meegan throughout 2011.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Compassion as an ICROSS Value,
" Be kind, always be kind, everyone we meet needs a little more kindness, a little more compassion. You can lighten their load, touch their hearts , bring just a little more joy into their journey. Be kind , always , always be kind"
Michael Meegan ALL WILL BE WELL
International Director ICROSS
http://www.michaelmeegan.net/
www.michaelmeegan.com
Michael Meegan ALL WILL BE WELL
International Director ICROSS
http://www.michaelmeegan.net/
www.michaelmeegan.com
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Michael Meegan Founder ICROSS Kenya
Michael Elmore-Meegan, also known as Michael Meegan,[1] (born 26 March 1959) is the co-founder of the International Community for Relief Of Starvation and Suffering (ICROSS),[2] an aid agency operating in East Africa that describes itself as "a small international organisation working to fight poverty and disease in the poorest parts of the world."[3] Meegan also co-founded an Irish branch of the charity known as Icross Ltd, which broke with Meegan in 2010.[4] ICROSS Kenya's website currently lists "Dr. Michael Elmore Meegan - Founder and International Director ICROSS."[5]
At age twenty, he went to Kenya where he began to work among the Masai people to address village devastated by diseases such as malaria, tuberculous, and, eventually AIDS.[10] This work led him to found ICROSS and begin advocating for the poor villagers with whom he worked.[11] Under Meegan's leadership, ICROSS worked with a number of other organization on Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland led project to develop a Solar water disinfection system that could be used by village households.[12]
In the 2000s, Meegan became a prominent figure in Ireland whose fundraising activities for ICROSS attracted the public support of former Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald and entertainment celebrities such as Elton John, Chris de Burgh, Caroline Corr, and Andrea Corr.[13] His writing and charitable activity brought him Ireland's well-regarded 2003 International Person of the Year Award presented in a nationally televised ceremony by the Irish charity Rehab.[14]
In May 2005, Ireland's state owned RTE televised a documentary about Meegan entitled When You Say 4000 Goodbyes.[15] After the broadcast, Meegan's charity ICROSS received 400,000 euros in donations.[16] On 19 November 2005, When You Say 4000 Goodbyes. was shown at Harvard University's prestigious Magners Irish Film Festival.[17] On 5 May 2006, the documentary won the Radharc Award 2006 for the "documentary programme of outstanding quality which addresses a national or international topic of social justice, morality or faith."[18]
On 7 April 2006, he was honored with an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland in a ceremony at the ornate Royal Hospital Kilmainham where other honorees included actor Martin Sheen, Philip Treacy (millner to celebrities including Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall), and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Louise Arbour.[19] On 5 December 2007, Meegan spoke at RedR UK's conference entitled Future Shocks: disasters and relief in a changing world on the same platform as the charity's British president
Publications
• Conroy, Ronán M.; & Michael Elmore Meegan. Dwindling Donor Aid for Health Programmes in Developing Countries, The Lancet, 14 May 1994.[32]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore-Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water and Diarrhoea in Maasai Children: A Controlled Field Trial, The Lancet, 21 December 1996.[33]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water Protects Against Cholera in Children Under 6 Years of Age, Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 2001.[34]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Water Reduces Diarrhoeal Disease: An Update, Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 1999.[35]
• Elmore-Meegan, Michael; Ronán M. Conroy & C. Bernard Agala. Sex Workers In Kenya, Numbers Of Clients and Associated Risks: An Exploratory Survey, Reproductive Health Matters, May 2004.[36]
• Joyce, Tina M.; Kevin G. McGuigan, Michael Elmore-Meegan, & Ronán M. Conroy. Inactivation of Fecal Bacteria in Drinking Water by Solar Heating, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 1996.[37]
• Konings, E.; , R.M. Anderson, Donald Morley, T. O'Riordan, Michael Meegan. Rates of Sexual Partner Change Among Two Pastoralist Southern Nilotic Groups in East Africa, AIDS, Londond, England, April 1989.[38]
• Mccormick, James; & Michael Elmore-Meegan. Maasai Diet, The Lancet, 24 October 1992.[39]
• McGuigan, Kevin G.; Tina M. Joyce, Ronán M. Conroy, J.B. Gillespie, & Michael Elmore-Meegan. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water Contained in Transparent Plastic Bottles: Characterizing the Bacterial Inactivation Process, Journal of Applied Microbiology, June 1998.[40]
• Meegan, Michael; & Manuel Scrima (Photographer). 100 Ways to Change the World, London: Eye Books, 1 March 2011 (anticipated)[41]
• Meegan, Michael. All Shall Be Well: On Compassion and Love, London: Fount, 13 Oct 1986.[42]
• Meegan, Michael. All Will Be Well, London: Eye Books, 15 May 2004[43]
• Meegan, Michael. Changing the World from the Inside Out: Connecting Your Intellegences, London: Eye Books, 30 November 2007[44]
• Meegan, Michael; Donald C. Morley, & R. Brown. Child Weighing by the Unschooled: A Report of a Controlled Study of Growth Monitoring Over 12 Months of Maasai Children Using Direct Recording Scales, Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, November–December 1994.[45]
• Meegan, Michael Elmore; Ronán M. Conroy, Sarune Ole Lengeny, Kate Renhaul, & J Nyangole. Effect On Neonatal Tetanus Mortality After A Culturally-Based Health Promotion Programme, The Lancet, 25 August 2001.[46]
• Meegan, Michael; & David Morley. Growth Monitoring: Family Participation: Effective Community Development, Tropical Doctor, January 1999.[47]
• Meegan, Michael; & James, McCormick. Prevention of Disease in the Poor World, The Lancet, 16 July 1988.[48]
• Meegan, Michael. The Reality of Starvation and Disease, The Lancet, 17 January 1981.[49]
• Meegan, Michael. Rethinking Famine Relief, The Lancet, 21 November 1992.[50]
• Meegan, Michael. Starvation and Suffering, The Lancet, 31 December 1983.[51]
• Meegan, Michael. Surprised by Joy: Out of the Darkness - Light, a Story of Hope in the Midst of Tragedy, Dunboyne, Ireland: Maverick House, 2 May 2006[52]
Meegan, Michael; & Sharon At age twenty, he went to Kenya where he began to work among the Masai people to address village devastated by diseases such as malaria, tuberculous, and, eventually AIDS.[10] This work led him to found ICROSS and begin advocating for the poor villagers with whom he worked.[11] Under Meegan's leadership, ICROSS worked with a number of other organization on Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland led project to develop a Solar water disinfection system that could be used by village households.[12]
In the 2000s, Meegan became a prominent figure in Ireland whose fundraising activities for ICROSS attracted the public support of former Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald and entertainment celebrities such as Elton John, Chris de Burgh, Caroline Corr, and Andrea Corr.[13] His writing and charitable activity brought him Ireland's well-regarded 2003 International Person of the Year Award presented in a nationally televised ceremony by the Irish charity Rehab.[14]
In May 2005, Ireland's state owned RTE televised a documentary about Meegan entitled When You Say 4000 Goodbyes.[15] After the broadcast, Meegan's charity ICROSS received 400,000 euros in donations.[16] On 19 November 2005, When You Say 4000 Goodbyes. was shown at Harvard University's prestigious Magners Irish Film Festival.[17] On 5 May 2006, the documentary won the Radharc Award 2006 for the "documentary programme of outstanding quality which addresses a national or international topic of social justice, morality or faith."[18]
On 7 April 2006, he was honored with an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland in a ceremony at the ornate Royal Hospital Kilmainham where other honorees included actor Martin Sheen, Philip Treacy (millner to celebrities including Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall), and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Louise Arbour.[19] On 5 December 2007, Meegan spoke at RedR UK's conference entitled Future Shocks: disasters and relief in a changing world on the same platform as the charity's British president HRH The Princess Royal.[20]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; & Michael Elmore Meegan. Dwindling Donor Aid for Health Programmes in Developing Countries, The Lancet, 14 May 1994.[32]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore-Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water and Diarrhoea in Maasai Children: A Controlled Field Trial, The Lancet, 21 December 1996.[33]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water Protects Against Cholera in Children Under 6 Years of Age, Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 2001.[34]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Water Reduces Diarrhoeal Disease: An Update, Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 1999.[35]
• Elmore-Meegan, Michael; Ronán M. Conroy & C. Bernard Agala. Sex Workers In Kenya, Numbers Of Clients and Associated Risks: An Exploratory Survey, Reproductive Health Matters, May 2004.[36]
• Joyce, Tina M.; Kevin G. McGuigan, Michael Elmore-Meegan, & Ronán M. Conroy. Inactivation of Fecal Bacteria in Drinking Water by Solar Heating, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 1996.[37]
• Konings, E.; , R.M. Anderson, Donald Morley, T. O'Riordan, Michael Meegan. Rates of Sexual Partner Change Among Two Pastoralist Southern Nilotic Groups in East Africa, AIDS, Londond, England, April 1989.[38]
• Mccormick, James; & Michael Elmore-Meegan. Maasai Diet, The Lancet, 24 October 1992.[39]
• McGuigan, Kevin G.; Tina M. Joyce, Ronán M. Conroy, J.B. Gillespie, & Michael Elmore-Meegan. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water Contained in Transparent Plastic Bottles: Characterizing the Bacterial Inactivation Process, Journal of Applied Microbiology, June 1998.[40]
• Meegan, Michael; & Manuel Scrima (Photographer). 100 Ways to Change the World, London: Eye Books, 1 March 2011 (anticipated)[41]
• Meegan, Michael. All Shall Be Well: On Compassion and Love, London: Fount, 13 Oct 1986.[42]
• Meegan, Michael. All Will Be Well, London: Eye Books, 15 May 2004[43]
• Meegan, Michael. Changing the World from the Inside Out: Connecting Your Intellegences, London: Eye Books, 30 November 2007[44]
• Meegan, Michael; Donald C. Morley, & R. Brown. Child Weighing by the Unschooled: A Report of a Controlled Study of Growth Monitoring Over 12 Months of Maasai Children Using Direct Recording Scales, Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, November–December 1994.[45]
• Meegan, Michael Elmore; Ronán M. Conroy, Sarune Ole Lengeny, Kate Renhaul, & J Nyangole. Effect On Neonatal Tetanus Mortality After A Culturally-Based Health Promotion Programme, The Lancet, 25 August 2001.[46]
• Meegan, Michael; & David Morley. Growth Monitoring: Family Participation: Effective Community Development, Tropical Doctor, January 1999.[47]
• Meegan, Michael; & James, McCormick. Prevention of Disease in the Poor World, The Lancet, 16 July 1988.[48]
• Meegan, Michael. The Reality of Starvation and Disease, The Lancet, 17 January 1981.[49]
• Meegan, Michael. Rethinking Famine Relief, The Lancet, 21 November 1992.[50]
• Meegan, Michael. Starvation and Suffering, The Lancet, 31 December 1983.[51]
• Meegan, Michael. Surprised by Joy: Out of the Darkness - Light, a Story of Hope in the Midst of Tragedy, Dunboyne, Ireland: Maverick House, 2 May 2006[52]
• Meegan, Michael; & Sharon Wilinson. Take My Hand 2008.[53]
• Meegan, Michael; & Colin Meagle. Tribe of One: A Guide to Personal Happiness, London: Eye Books, 11 July 2011 (anticipated)[54]
• Meegan, Mike; David Morley, & Desmond Chavasse. Fly Traps, The Lancet, 22 March 1997.[55]
• Wilinson. Take My Hand 2008.[53]
• Meegan, Michael; & Colin Meagle. Tribe of One: A Guide to Personal Happiness, London: Eye Books, 11 July 2011 (anticipated)[54]
• Meegan, Mike; David Morley, & Desmond Chavasse. Fly Traps, The Lancet, 22 March 1997.[55]
ICROSS, which stands for "the International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation" is a Kenyan-based non-governmental organization founded by Michael Meegan, Joseph Barnes
which specialises in long term primary health, community health care and public health programmes. The organisation's headquarters are based in Ngong, Rift Valley, Kenya. ICROSS www.icrossinternational.org . ICROSS has a long established research programme with a number of different patners and research collaborators.
ICROSS www.icrosskenya.org works as a Kenyan-based development NGO, with a focus in the field of health,[1][2] with key international lectures [3] including the RedR Future shocks lecture,.[4] ICROSS is responsible for a large terminal care programme and a series of public health programmes. One of ICROSS's key research streams has been investigating means of solar disinfection (SODIS) of contaminated drinking water, and has helped conduct a number of control trials of SODIS.[5] Engaged in multi country collaborative programmes www.rcsi.ie/hwts09 ICROSS stresses traditional tribal values, building development programmes through the exisyting decision systems and creating locally driven agendas.
International profile ICROSS campaigns have included Africa awakes which tries to change the stereotypes and negative perceptions of Africa www.africa-awakes.com These exhibitions have received wide media coverage in Italy and France. ICROSS public health work has been cited Internationally , medical work has appeared in key scienticif journals since 1981. Meegan who received many international awards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Elmore-Meegan was featured in BBC's Hardtalk current affair's programme for his work for ICROSS[6] while in 2006 the organisation was the subject of an award winning documentary by Irish Television.[7] ICROSS and its Founders have received widespread recognition for their work, especially in long term public health and creating lasting community development programmes. ICROSS spcialises in long term pastoralist health programmes, the most recent example of which was opened in December 2010 at Ilkilorit, Maasai land in Kenya. They have been covered extensively in the media, most recently for SODIS and for Africa awakes campaigns fighting racism, prejudice and stereotypes. In 2003 the founder received International person of the year in Ireland and in 2006 was the second person ever to receive a D Med Honoris Causa for his work in International health.www.nui.ie/college/docs/citations/2006/meegan.pdf
ICROSS work is widely cited ( see google scholar ) and the administration is entirely Africanied since August 2000.
Media news items include research http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/fol060732/proj634131 http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/letter-2003-10-16.html The International NGO which has multi lateral and bi lateral donors. Since 2003 the expansion of ICROSS International has seen the creation of an International Advisory board in 2009 chaired by Dr Davida de La Harpe. In October 2009 ICROSS launched www.icrossinternational.org and www.icrosskenya.org
Michael Meegan has also written numerous books on his work with ICROSS including 'All Will Be Well'(the successor to 'All Shall Be Well'), 'Surprised by Joy' and 'Changing the World 2008 A new series of books is being published by eye books www.eye-books.con
In January 2010 ICROSS Kenya extended its Rural health programmes. In March ICROSS Kenya began legal action in Ireland to try and establlish where funds raised for Kenyan projects had gone. The co founder of ICROSS Dr Joe Barnes installed a new Board of Directors in ICROSS Ireland july 2010 and funding to ICROSS Kenya programmes resumed. This funding was raised by the Founders
[edit] Research
Published research conducted by ICROSS includes:
1 Elmore-Meegan M, Conroy RM, Agala CB. Sex workers in Kenya, numbers of clients and associated risks: an exploratory survey. Reprod Health Matters 2004;12(23):50-7.
2 Meegan ME, Conroy RM, Lengeny SO, Renhault K, Nyangole J. Effect on neonatal tetanus mortality after a culturally-based health promotion programme. Lancet 2001;358(9282):640-1.
3 Conroy RM, Meegan ME, Joyce T, McGuigan K, Barnes J. Solar disinfection of drinking water protects against cholera in children under 6 years of age. Arch Dis Child 2001;85(4):293-5.
4 Meegan M, Morley DC. Growth monitoring: family participation: effective community development. Trop Doct 1999;29(1):23-7.
5 Conroy RM, Meegan ME, Joyce T, McGuigan K, Barnes J. Solar disinfection of water reduces diarrhoeal disease: an update. Arch Dis Child 1999;81(4):337-8.
6 Meegan M, Morley D, Chavasse D. Fly traps. Lancet 1997;349(9055):886.
7 Meegan M, Morley DC, Brown R. Child weighing by the unschooled: a report of a controlled study of growth monitoring over 12 months of Maasai children using direct recording scales. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1994;88(6):635-7.
8 Conroy RM, Meegan ME. Dwindling donor aid for health programmes in developing countries. Lancet 1994;343(8907):1228-9.
9 Meegan MK. Rethinking famine relief. Lancet 1992;340(8830):1293-4.
10 Konings E, Anderson RM, Morley D, O'Riordan T, Meegan M. Rates of sexual partner change among two pastoralist southern Nilotic groups in east Africa. Aids 1989;3(4):245-7.
11 Meegan M, McCormick J. Prevention of disease in the poor world. Lancet 1988;2(8603):152-3.
12 Meegan M. Starvation and suffering. Lancet 1983;2(8365-66):1506.
13 Meegan M. The reality of starvation and disease. Lancet 1981;1 (8212):146.
At age twenty, he went to Kenya where he began to work among the Masai people to address village devastated by diseases such as malaria, tuberculous, and, eventually AIDS.[10] This work led him to found ICROSS and begin advocating for the poor villagers with whom he worked.[11] Under Meegan's leadership, ICROSS worked with a number of other organization on Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland led project to develop a Solar water disinfection system that could be used by village households.[12]
In the 2000s, Meegan became a prominent figure in Ireland whose fundraising activities for ICROSS attracted the public support of former Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald and entertainment celebrities such as Elton John, Chris de Burgh, Caroline Corr, and Andrea Corr.[13] His writing and charitable activity brought him Ireland's well-regarded 2003 International Person of the Year Award presented in a nationally televised ceremony by the Irish charity Rehab.[14]
In May 2005, Ireland's state owned RTE televised a documentary about Meegan entitled When You Say 4000 Goodbyes.[15] After the broadcast, Meegan's charity ICROSS received 400,000 euros in donations.[16] On 19 November 2005, When You Say 4000 Goodbyes. was shown at Harvard University's prestigious Magners Irish Film Festival.[17] On 5 May 2006, the documentary won the Radharc Award 2006 for the "documentary programme of outstanding quality which addresses a national or international topic of social justice, morality or faith."[18]
On 7 April 2006, he was honored with an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland in a ceremony at the ornate Royal Hospital Kilmainham where other honorees included actor Martin Sheen, Philip Treacy (millner to celebrities including Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall), and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Louise Arbour.[19] On 5 December 2007, Meegan spoke at RedR UK's conference entitled Future Shocks: disasters and relief in a changing world on the same platform as the charity's British president
Publications
• Conroy, Ronán M.; & Michael Elmore Meegan. Dwindling Donor Aid for Health Programmes in Developing Countries, The Lancet, 14 May 1994.[32]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore-Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water and Diarrhoea in Maasai Children: A Controlled Field Trial, The Lancet, 21 December 1996.[33]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water Protects Against Cholera in Children Under 6 Years of Age, Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 2001.[34]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Water Reduces Diarrhoeal Disease: An Update, Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 1999.[35]
• Elmore-Meegan, Michael; Ronán M. Conroy & C. Bernard Agala. Sex Workers In Kenya, Numbers Of Clients and Associated Risks: An Exploratory Survey, Reproductive Health Matters, May 2004.[36]
• Joyce, Tina M.; Kevin G. McGuigan, Michael Elmore-Meegan, & Ronán M. Conroy. Inactivation of Fecal Bacteria in Drinking Water by Solar Heating, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 1996.[37]
• Konings, E.; , R.M. Anderson, Donald Morley, T. O'Riordan, Michael Meegan. Rates of Sexual Partner Change Among Two Pastoralist Southern Nilotic Groups in East Africa, AIDS, Londond, England, April 1989.[38]
• Mccormick, James; & Michael Elmore-Meegan. Maasai Diet, The Lancet, 24 October 1992.[39]
• McGuigan, Kevin G.; Tina M. Joyce, Ronán M. Conroy, J.B. Gillespie, & Michael Elmore-Meegan. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water Contained in Transparent Plastic Bottles: Characterizing the Bacterial Inactivation Process, Journal of Applied Microbiology, June 1998.[40]
• Meegan, Michael; & Manuel Scrima (Photographer). 100 Ways to Change the World, London: Eye Books, 1 March 2011 (anticipated)[41]
• Meegan, Michael. All Shall Be Well: On Compassion and Love, London: Fount, 13 Oct 1986.[42]
• Meegan, Michael. All Will Be Well, London: Eye Books, 15 May 2004[43]
• Meegan, Michael. Changing the World from the Inside Out: Connecting Your Intellegences, London: Eye Books, 30 November 2007[44]
• Meegan, Michael; Donald C. Morley, & R. Brown. Child Weighing by the Unschooled: A Report of a Controlled Study of Growth Monitoring Over 12 Months of Maasai Children Using Direct Recording Scales, Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, November–December 1994.[45]
• Meegan, Michael Elmore; Ronán M. Conroy, Sarune Ole Lengeny, Kate Renhaul, & J Nyangole. Effect On Neonatal Tetanus Mortality After A Culturally-Based Health Promotion Programme, The Lancet, 25 August 2001.[46]
• Meegan, Michael; & David Morley. Growth Monitoring: Family Participation: Effective Community Development, Tropical Doctor, January 1999.[47]
• Meegan, Michael; & James, McCormick. Prevention of Disease in the Poor World, The Lancet, 16 July 1988.[48]
• Meegan, Michael. The Reality of Starvation and Disease, The Lancet, 17 January 1981.[49]
• Meegan, Michael. Rethinking Famine Relief, The Lancet, 21 November 1992.[50]
• Meegan, Michael. Starvation and Suffering, The Lancet, 31 December 1983.[51]
• Meegan, Michael. Surprised by Joy: Out of the Darkness - Light, a Story of Hope in the Midst of Tragedy, Dunboyne, Ireland: Maverick House, 2 May 2006[52]
Meegan, Michael; & Sharon At age twenty, he went to Kenya where he began to work among the Masai people to address village devastated by diseases such as malaria, tuberculous, and, eventually AIDS.[10] This work led him to found ICROSS and begin advocating for the poor villagers with whom he worked.[11] Under Meegan's leadership, ICROSS worked with a number of other organization on Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland led project to develop a Solar water disinfection system that could be used by village households.[12]
In the 2000s, Meegan became a prominent figure in Ireland whose fundraising activities for ICROSS attracted the public support of former Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald and entertainment celebrities such as Elton John, Chris de Burgh, Caroline Corr, and Andrea Corr.[13] His writing and charitable activity brought him Ireland's well-regarded 2003 International Person of the Year Award presented in a nationally televised ceremony by the Irish charity Rehab.[14]
In May 2005, Ireland's state owned RTE televised a documentary about Meegan entitled When You Say 4000 Goodbyes.[15] After the broadcast, Meegan's charity ICROSS received 400,000 euros in donations.[16] On 19 November 2005, When You Say 4000 Goodbyes. was shown at Harvard University's prestigious Magners Irish Film Festival.[17] On 5 May 2006, the documentary won the Radharc Award 2006 for the "documentary programme of outstanding quality which addresses a national or international topic of social justice, morality or faith."[18]
On 7 April 2006, he was honored with an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland in a ceremony at the ornate Royal Hospital Kilmainham where other honorees included actor Martin Sheen, Philip Treacy (millner to celebrities including Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall), and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Louise Arbour.[19] On 5 December 2007, Meegan spoke at RedR UK's conference entitled Future Shocks: disasters and relief in a changing world on the same platform as the charity's British president HRH The Princess Royal.[20]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; & Michael Elmore Meegan. Dwindling Donor Aid for Health Programmes in Developing Countries, The Lancet, 14 May 1994.[32]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore-Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water and Diarrhoea in Maasai Children: A Controlled Field Trial, The Lancet, 21 December 1996.[33]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water Protects Against Cholera in Children Under 6 Years of Age, Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 2001.[34]
• Conroy, Ronán M.; Michael Elmore Meegan, Tina M. Joyce, Kevin G. McGuigan & Joseph Barnes. Solar Disinfection of Water Reduces Diarrhoeal Disease: An Update, Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 1999.[35]
• Elmore-Meegan, Michael; Ronán M. Conroy & C. Bernard Agala. Sex Workers In Kenya, Numbers Of Clients and Associated Risks: An Exploratory Survey, Reproductive Health Matters, May 2004.[36]
• Joyce, Tina M.; Kevin G. McGuigan, Michael Elmore-Meegan, & Ronán M. Conroy. Inactivation of Fecal Bacteria in Drinking Water by Solar Heating, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 1996.[37]
• Konings, E.; , R.M. Anderson, Donald Morley, T. O'Riordan, Michael Meegan. Rates of Sexual Partner Change Among Two Pastoralist Southern Nilotic Groups in East Africa, AIDS, Londond, England, April 1989.[38]
• Mccormick, James; & Michael Elmore-Meegan. Maasai Diet, The Lancet, 24 October 1992.[39]
• McGuigan, Kevin G.; Tina M. Joyce, Ronán M. Conroy, J.B. Gillespie, & Michael Elmore-Meegan. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water Contained in Transparent Plastic Bottles: Characterizing the Bacterial Inactivation Process, Journal of Applied Microbiology, June 1998.[40]
• Meegan, Michael; & Manuel Scrima (Photographer). 100 Ways to Change the World, London: Eye Books, 1 March 2011 (anticipated)[41]
• Meegan, Michael. All Shall Be Well: On Compassion and Love, London: Fount, 13 Oct 1986.[42]
• Meegan, Michael. All Will Be Well, London: Eye Books, 15 May 2004[43]
• Meegan, Michael. Changing the World from the Inside Out: Connecting Your Intellegences, London: Eye Books, 30 November 2007[44]
• Meegan, Michael; Donald C. Morley, & R. Brown. Child Weighing by the Unschooled: A Report of a Controlled Study of Growth Monitoring Over 12 Months of Maasai Children Using Direct Recording Scales, Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, November–December 1994.[45]
• Meegan, Michael Elmore; Ronán M. Conroy, Sarune Ole Lengeny, Kate Renhaul, & J Nyangole. Effect On Neonatal Tetanus Mortality After A Culturally-Based Health Promotion Programme, The Lancet, 25 August 2001.[46]
• Meegan, Michael; & David Morley. Growth Monitoring: Family Participation: Effective Community Development, Tropical Doctor, January 1999.[47]
• Meegan, Michael; & James, McCormick. Prevention of Disease in the Poor World, The Lancet, 16 July 1988.[48]
• Meegan, Michael. The Reality of Starvation and Disease, The Lancet, 17 January 1981.[49]
• Meegan, Michael. Rethinking Famine Relief, The Lancet, 21 November 1992.[50]
• Meegan, Michael. Starvation and Suffering, The Lancet, 31 December 1983.[51]
• Meegan, Michael. Surprised by Joy: Out of the Darkness - Light, a Story of Hope in the Midst of Tragedy, Dunboyne, Ireland: Maverick House, 2 May 2006[52]
• Meegan, Michael; & Sharon Wilinson. Take My Hand 2008.[53]
• Meegan, Michael; & Colin Meagle. Tribe of One: A Guide to Personal Happiness, London: Eye Books, 11 July 2011 (anticipated)[54]
• Meegan, Mike; David Morley, & Desmond Chavasse. Fly Traps, The Lancet, 22 March 1997.[55]
• Wilinson. Take My Hand 2008.[53]
• Meegan, Michael; & Colin Meagle. Tribe of One: A Guide to Personal Happiness, London: Eye Books, 11 July 2011 (anticipated)[54]
• Meegan, Mike; David Morley, & Desmond Chavasse. Fly Traps, The Lancet, 22 March 1997.[55]
ICROSS, which stands for "the International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation" is a Kenyan-based non-governmental organization founded by Michael Meegan, Joseph Barnes
which specialises in long term primary health, community health care and public health programmes. The organisation's headquarters are based in Ngong, Rift Valley, Kenya. ICROSS www.icrossinternational.org . ICROSS has a long established research programme with a number of different patners and research collaborators.
ICROSS www.icrosskenya.org works as a Kenyan-based development NGO, with a focus in the field of health,[1][2] with key international lectures [3] including the RedR Future shocks lecture,.[4] ICROSS is responsible for a large terminal care programme and a series of public health programmes. One of ICROSS's key research streams has been investigating means of solar disinfection (SODIS) of contaminated drinking water, and has helped conduct a number of control trials of SODIS.[5] Engaged in multi country collaborative programmes www.rcsi.ie/hwts09 ICROSS stresses traditional tribal values, building development programmes through the exisyting decision systems and creating locally driven agendas.
International profile ICROSS campaigns have included Africa awakes which tries to change the stereotypes and negative perceptions of Africa www.africa-awakes.com These exhibitions have received wide media coverage in Italy and France. ICROSS public health work has been cited Internationally , medical work has appeared in key scienticif journals since 1981. Meegan who received many international awards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Elmore-Meegan was featured in BBC's Hardtalk current affair's programme for his work for ICROSS[6] while in 2006 the organisation was the subject of an award winning documentary by Irish Television.[7] ICROSS and its Founders have received widespread recognition for their work, especially in long term public health and creating lasting community development programmes. ICROSS spcialises in long term pastoralist health programmes, the most recent example of which was opened in December 2010 at Ilkilorit, Maasai land in Kenya. They have been covered extensively in the media, most recently for SODIS and for Africa awakes campaigns fighting racism, prejudice and stereotypes. In 2003 the founder received International person of the year in Ireland and in 2006 was the second person ever to receive a D Med Honoris Causa for his work in International health.www.nui.ie/college/docs/citations/2006/meegan.pdf
ICROSS work is widely cited ( see google scholar ) and the administration is entirely Africanied since August 2000.
Media news items include research http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/fol060732/proj634131 http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/letter-2003-10-16.html The International NGO which has multi lateral and bi lateral donors. Since 2003 the expansion of ICROSS International has seen the creation of an International Advisory board in 2009 chaired by Dr Davida de La Harpe. In October 2009 ICROSS launched www.icrossinternational.org and www.icrosskenya.org
Michael Meegan has also written numerous books on his work with ICROSS including 'All Will Be Well'(the successor to 'All Shall Be Well'), 'Surprised by Joy' and 'Changing the World 2008 A new series of books is being published by eye books www.eye-books.con
In January 2010 ICROSS Kenya extended its Rural health programmes. In March ICROSS Kenya began legal action in Ireland to try and establlish where funds raised for Kenyan projects had gone. The co founder of ICROSS Dr Joe Barnes installed a new Board of Directors in ICROSS Ireland july 2010 and funding to ICROSS Kenya programmes resumed. This funding was raised by the Founders
[edit] Research
Published research conducted by ICROSS includes:
1 Elmore-Meegan M, Conroy RM, Agala CB. Sex workers in Kenya, numbers of clients and associated risks: an exploratory survey. Reprod Health Matters 2004;12(23):50-7.
2 Meegan ME, Conroy RM, Lengeny SO, Renhault K, Nyangole J. Effect on neonatal tetanus mortality after a culturally-based health promotion programme. Lancet 2001;358(9282):640-1.
3 Conroy RM, Meegan ME, Joyce T, McGuigan K, Barnes J. Solar disinfection of drinking water protects against cholera in children under 6 years of age. Arch Dis Child 2001;85(4):293-5.
4 Meegan M, Morley DC. Growth monitoring: family participation: effective community development. Trop Doct 1999;29(1):23-7.
5 Conroy RM, Meegan ME, Joyce T, McGuigan K, Barnes J. Solar disinfection of water reduces diarrhoeal disease: an update. Arch Dis Child 1999;81(4):337-8.
6 Meegan M, Morley D, Chavasse D. Fly traps. Lancet 1997;349(9055):886.
7 Meegan M, Morley DC, Brown R. Child weighing by the unschooled: a report of a controlled study of growth monitoring over 12 months of Maasai children using direct recording scales. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1994;88(6):635-7.
8 Conroy RM, Meegan ME. Dwindling donor aid for health programmes in developing countries. Lancet 1994;343(8907):1228-9.
9 Meegan MK. Rethinking famine relief. Lancet 1992;340(8830):1293-4.
10 Konings E, Anderson RM, Morley D, O'Riordan T, Meegan M. Rates of sexual partner change among two pastoralist southern Nilotic groups in east Africa. Aids 1989;3(4):245-7.
11 Meegan M, McCormick J. Prevention of disease in the poor world. Lancet 1988;2(8603):152-3.
12 Meegan M. Starvation and suffering. Lancet 1983;2(8365-66):1506.
13 Meegan M. The reality of starvation and disease. Lancet 1981;1 (8212):146.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
ICROSS safe motherhood and child survival programmes 2011
ICROSS safe motherhood and child survival projects 2011
For 30 years ICROSS has promoted community based primary health care.
Key elements to effective public health are safe motherhood and child survival.
Safe motherhood
means ensuring that all mothers get the care they need to be safe and healthy throughout pregnancy and childbirth and in the following years.
Newborn Health and Survival
Each year, approximately 4 million newborn infants die during the first month of life, and an additional 4 million are stillborn- most of these deaths are due to infection, asphyxia and birth injuries, and complications of premature birth. Low birth weight contributes to newborn death in about 40-80% of cases. Nearly all of these newborn deaths occur in developing countries. ICROSS works in areas with high maternal death rates and high maternal mortality. Psrt of our safe motherhood includes ;
* All women have access to contraception to avoid unintended pregnancies
* All pregnant women have access to skilled care at the time of birth
* All those with complications have timely access to quality emergency obstetric care
Child Survival
Child survival is a program that reduced child deaths. ICROSS Child survival interventions fight diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and neonatal illnesses. Of the portion of children under the age of 5 alone, an estimated 9.2 million children die each year mostly from these causes.
ICROSS child survival includes
immunizing mothers against tetanus,
ensuring clean delivery practices in a hygienic birthing space
proper nutrition of babies
care of new-borns
continued breastfeeding,
immunization, and treatment of infections with antibiotics –
These interventions could save the lives of 3 million newborns annually in developing countries.
Improved sanitation and access to clean drinking water can reduce childhood infections and diarrhea.
Over 40 percent of the world's population does not have access to basic sanitation, and more than one billion people use unsafe sources of drinking water. This is why ICROSS has focused on these projects since 1980.
Michael Elmore-Meegan MSc Community Health TCD
D Med HC NUI FRAMI
Founder International Director
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
www.michaelmeegan.com
http://www.michaelmeegan.net/
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
For 30 years ICROSS has promoted community based primary health care.
Key elements to effective public health are safe motherhood and child survival.
Safe motherhood
means ensuring that all mothers get the care they need to be safe and healthy throughout pregnancy and childbirth and in the following years.
Newborn Health and Survival
Each year, approximately 4 million newborn infants die during the first month of life, and an additional 4 million are stillborn- most of these deaths are due to infection, asphyxia and birth injuries, and complications of premature birth. Low birth weight contributes to newborn death in about 40-80% of cases. Nearly all of these newborn deaths occur in developing countries. ICROSS works in areas with high maternal death rates and high maternal mortality. Psrt of our safe motherhood includes ;
* All women have access to contraception to avoid unintended pregnancies
* All pregnant women have access to skilled care at the time of birth
* All those with complications have timely access to quality emergency obstetric care
Child Survival
Child survival is a program that reduced child deaths. ICROSS Child survival interventions fight diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and neonatal illnesses. Of the portion of children under the age of 5 alone, an estimated 9.2 million children die each year mostly from these causes.
ICROSS child survival includes
immunizing mothers against tetanus,
ensuring clean delivery practices in a hygienic birthing space
proper nutrition of babies
care of new-borns
continued breastfeeding,
immunization, and treatment of infections with antibiotics –
These interventions could save the lives of 3 million newborns annually in developing countries.
Improved sanitation and access to clean drinking water can reduce childhood infections and diarrhea.
Over 40 percent of the world's population does not have access to basic sanitation, and more than one billion people use unsafe sources of drinking water. This is why ICROSS has focused on these projects since 1980.
Michael Elmore-Meegan MSc Community Health TCD
D Med HC NUI FRAMI
Founder International Director
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
www.michaelmeegan.com
http://www.michaelmeegan.net/
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
I held him in my arms and wept
I Held Him in My Arms and Wept
THis article first appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/284/2/152.extract
THe full story of Atria appears in "ALL WILL BE WELL" www.michaelmeegan.net
Michael K. Elmore-Meegan
A year before his death, 17 year-old Atria weighs 7 stone (98 pounds). He has left his village. He is afraid and he is ashamed. He is embarrassed to be here. He is sweating, he fights. His hands tremble. His pulse is rapid. He tries to smile. His problems aren't only the rashes and the intestinal worms. These are easily cleared up. But you can't "clear up" anger and fear, or sleepless nights and panic attacks, or how long a few minutes can seem...or the sense of powerlessness watching your own body fall away, the humiliation of disintegration.
Some infections are harder to deal with: a mouth filled with ulcers, an inflamed penis. As the disease progresses so do the nausea, the backpain, the headaches. Muscle cramps always hurt, especially when one has very little muscle. Atria has severe diarrhea and the dull aches in his stomach become sharp pains. Despite our best efforts he becomes anemic. His sight fades, as well as his concentration. Atria has stinging burning pain from urinary tract infections, as his urinary tract is blood red and raw.
Moving his bowels has become a feared ordeal, as his anus has lost its muscular contractility and often gets infected. He has no buttocks, not really, just skin stretched over bone, sore to lie on. His joints are hypersensitive. Above all, Atria finds it difficult to breathe. His dreadful wheezing-gurgling prevents sleep and he moans a lot because the painkillers are useless.
Over the coming months Atria finds some support and friendship, some dignity and encouragement. He was a beautiful young man with stunning eyes. A proud, energetic guy, very popular and ambitious with a deadly sense of fun. Now, most of all he hates that he leaks and drips, smells bad, and often cannot control his bowel movements or urination. He gets angry at himself. He is weak and dizzy and has constant headaches. He cannot eat easily and his ability to digest is deteriorating, as his enzymes are breaking down. The slightest knock causes a painful bruise. Atria is now 6 stone (84 pounds). After another few weeks, the boy is drained; his mouth full of thrush, a thick, white fungus over his tongue and gums - and ulcers - he has difficulty swallowing. Breathing is increasingly labored. By now, pneumonia is taking over.
All movement is acutely painful and distressing. Intestinal worms are back again. Atria's limbs are stiffening and his back is covered with ulcers that leak and bleed but do not heal, impossible to manage in a small hut. His issues are controlling pain, managing extreme distress, reducing humiliation, creating dignity, reducing multiple infections, reducing cross-infection to others. But the worst thing is loneliness. To die of AIDS in Africa is an intensely humiliating ordeal, slow . . . obscene. Atria is now in his last days of life. His tear ducts have dried up, his hair has fallen out, his bones are brittle. He has no muscle or fat and his heart is 70% weaker than pre-HIV. He has been eaten alive and he has no resistance. All of Atria's senses are shutting down.
His fingernails and toenails have fallen out. His skin is blistered and scaly, and scabs cannot form. The bedsores and ulcers have spread, sources of multiple deep infections. Breathing is almost impossible and the slightest movement is slow and full of dreadful anxiety. I give him water drop by drop through a straw. I hold his frail, stiffened hand. He is cold, he has no tears. I look into his eyes. I whisper to him, and kiss him. He slowly inhales, half closes his eyes. He breathes out, very slowly.
Atria's face relaxes, his tormented body sags. He is gone.
I held him in my arms and wept.
I cannot describe the fear and emptiness watching such disintegration. As I write this, the images that flash across my mind are not the data, the plan, the project, but the faces, the faces of those who have had no one else to love them . . . nowhere else to go - dumped, neglected, unwanted. I feel so inadequate, so useless and unworthy, flawed and pathetic, so utterly overwhelmed. I want to be somewhere else. I am not able for all of this. The horror of the holocaust revolts me. I have sights so unspeakable in my mind. What has humanity done? Why do we allow people to die this way? What manner of beast are we?
In my aloneness, in my fear, in my pathetic inadequacy, in my own humanity, despite myself, I fall before the feet of God and cry: Why? Yet in the end, I find the only thing that matters is to do the best I can.
I leap into the darkness and find myself in a sweltering, disease-ridden place, full of flies and gross smells - and a child is crying. I reach out to gently grasp his small, withered hand, too weak to tremble. I am here. I am here.
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www.icrosskenya.org
www.michaelmeegan.com
http://www.michaelmeegan.net/
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THis article first appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/284/2/152.extract
THe full story of Atria appears in "ALL WILL BE WELL" www.michaelmeegan.net
Michael K. Elmore-Meegan
A year before his death, 17 year-old Atria weighs 7 stone (98 pounds). He has left his village. He is afraid and he is ashamed. He is embarrassed to be here. He is sweating, he fights. His hands tremble. His pulse is rapid. He tries to smile. His problems aren't only the rashes and the intestinal worms. These are easily cleared up. But you can't "clear up" anger and fear, or sleepless nights and panic attacks, or how long a few minutes can seem...or the sense of powerlessness watching your own body fall away, the humiliation of disintegration.
Some infections are harder to deal with: a mouth filled with ulcers, an inflamed penis. As the disease progresses so do the nausea, the backpain, the headaches. Muscle cramps always hurt, especially when one has very little muscle. Atria has severe diarrhea and the dull aches in his stomach become sharp pains. Despite our best efforts he becomes anemic. His sight fades, as well as his concentration. Atria has stinging burning pain from urinary tract infections, as his urinary tract is blood red and raw.
Moving his bowels has become a feared ordeal, as his anus has lost its muscular contractility and often gets infected. He has no buttocks, not really, just skin stretched over bone, sore to lie on. His joints are hypersensitive. Above all, Atria finds it difficult to breathe. His dreadful wheezing-gurgling prevents sleep and he moans a lot because the painkillers are useless.
Over the coming months Atria finds some support and friendship, some dignity and encouragement. He was a beautiful young man with stunning eyes. A proud, energetic guy, very popular and ambitious with a deadly sense of fun. Now, most of all he hates that he leaks and drips, smells bad, and often cannot control his bowel movements or urination. He gets angry at himself. He is weak and dizzy and has constant headaches. He cannot eat easily and his ability to digest is deteriorating, as his enzymes are breaking down. The slightest knock causes a painful bruise. Atria is now 6 stone (84 pounds). After another few weeks, the boy is drained; his mouth full of thrush, a thick, white fungus over his tongue and gums - and ulcers - he has difficulty swallowing. Breathing is increasingly labored. By now, pneumonia is taking over.
All movement is acutely painful and distressing. Intestinal worms are back again. Atria's limbs are stiffening and his back is covered with ulcers that leak and bleed but do not heal, impossible to manage in a small hut. His issues are controlling pain, managing extreme distress, reducing humiliation, creating dignity, reducing multiple infections, reducing cross-infection to others. But the worst thing is loneliness. To die of AIDS in Africa is an intensely humiliating ordeal, slow . . . obscene. Atria is now in his last days of life. His tear ducts have dried up, his hair has fallen out, his bones are brittle. He has no muscle or fat and his heart is 70% weaker than pre-HIV. He has been eaten alive and he has no resistance. All of Atria's senses are shutting down.
His fingernails and toenails have fallen out. His skin is blistered and scaly, and scabs cannot form. The bedsores and ulcers have spread, sources of multiple deep infections. Breathing is almost impossible and the slightest movement is slow and full of dreadful anxiety. I give him water drop by drop through a straw. I hold his frail, stiffened hand. He is cold, he has no tears. I look into his eyes. I whisper to him, and kiss him. He slowly inhales, half closes his eyes. He breathes out, very slowly.
Atria's face relaxes, his tormented body sags. He is gone.
I held him in my arms and wept.
I cannot describe the fear and emptiness watching such disintegration. As I write this, the images that flash across my mind are not the data, the plan, the project, but the faces, the faces of those who have had no one else to love them . . . nowhere else to go - dumped, neglected, unwanted. I feel so inadequate, so useless and unworthy, flawed and pathetic, so utterly overwhelmed. I want to be somewhere else. I am not able for all of this. The horror of the holocaust revolts me. I have sights so unspeakable in my mind. What has humanity done? Why do we allow people to die this way? What manner of beast are we?
In my aloneness, in my fear, in my pathetic inadequacy, in my own humanity, despite myself, I fall before the feet of God and cry: Why? Yet in the end, I find the only thing that matters is to do the best I can.
I leap into the darkness and find myself in a sweltering, disease-ridden place, full of flies and gross smells - and a child is crying. I reach out to gently grasp his small, withered hand, too weak to tremble. I am here. I am here.
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
www.michaelmeegan.com
http://www.michaelmeegan.net/
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
ICROSS PROJECTS 2011-2012 Making a difference in Africa
ICROSS PROJECTS 2011-2012 Making a difference in Africa
more on
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
The United Nations, has set a series of targets to end world poverty and hunger. The gap between the rich and poor causes over 50,000 children to die from preventable diseases cause by poverty everyday.
These millennium goals are the gold standard we are all aiming for. for more facts about Global Poverty and the reasons why ICROSS focuses on these areas, please see here.
1.WOMEN
92% of the women who die in pregnancy and childbirth, live in the poor world. The life expectancy of rural women in sub-Saharan Africa is 40% less than in Western Europe. The challenges are enormous. ICROSS has a number of long-range programs to improve the health and well being of women.
a) Maternal Health Care;
We have been developing long-term maternal health programmes since 1980. Together with institutions around the world, we have developed training programmes for mothers in their local language through their traditional belief systems. As part of strengthening women’s health, we have developed over 200 women’s groups and set up training systems within local communities led by the mothers, grandmothers and traditional birth attendants
b) Maternity Units
Through our network of clinics and health facilities, supporting pastoralist communities, we are going to build maternity units across the rift valley. This will allow us to protect women. For more information, please click here.
c) Safe Motherhood
d) Reproductive Health/Family Planning
With over a billion people living in the Sub-Sahara, many living in extreme poverty, family planning is critical to break the poverty trap. ICROSS provides choice, contraception, family planning alternatives and culturally appropriate reproductive health care.
e) Nutrition
In 2011, over 40% of young Maasai mothers are anemic. ICROSS health programmes are working with hundreds of villages ensuring that young mothers receive proper nutrition monitoring and home support [LINK]
2. CHILDREN
The poorest children on earth live in rural Sub-Sahara. Over 80% of starvation and ¾ of preventable deaths occur in this region. In many areas, 1 in 5 children die before their 5th birthday. The suffering facing these children can be stopped. The gap between a child born in rural Africa and Western Europe has never been bigger. ICROSS has been developing effective ways of improving child health for over three decades [ICROSS research page]
a) Primary Health Care
All ICROSS clinics provide comprehensive primary care to children in the homes and schools. This includes immunizing against the main six killer diseases; Tuberculosis, diphtheria, Whooping cough, polio, meningitis and tetanus, monitoring the growth of infants, nutritional support to malnourished children. For 16 years, ICROSS has pioneered innovations, finding new ways to improve drinking water for children and reduce diarrhea infections [LINK to RCSI SODIS research]. We are developing new ways to prevent blindness from Trachoma. Our child survival programme has reached over 200,000 children since it began in 1984.
3. HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA
Most of the worlds HIV victims live in Africa. The vast majority of all AIDS death occurs in the Sub-Sahara. Over 14 million children have been orphaned by AIDS; 2 million in Kenya alone. The AIDS crisis in Africa continues to be devastating [LINK]. Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, ICROSS has been proactive in developing culturally sensitive interventions and awareness programmes. Since our early work identifying the local needs [LINK], we have been developing long-range solutions to complex issues of sexual behavior.
a) Prevention and Health Promotion encouraging Safe Sex. Over 20 years, ICROSS has implemented care of HIV/AIDS patients in their own homes across many districts in Kenya (each of these districts is larger than a European country) [LINK]. We have provided home-based care to over 4000 victims of AIDS. [LINK]
b) AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children
For two decades, ICROSS has worked with local communities. We help children remain in their own tribal communities keeping them in their own social structure. We believe that orphaned children need to be part of the community and not institutionalized. We have developed culturally sensitive approaches to responding to individual needs where the children are people and not statistics. We provide practical help, education and support local community initiatives.
c) TB
ICROSS has been working with the ministry of health in many districts, strengthening the local resources and ability to respond to the increasing threat of drug resistant tuberculosis.
d) Malaria
ICROSS has a dynamic Malaria prevention project
download our latest report.
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/malaria/features/2287-10-facts-on-malaria-in-africa.html
more on
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
The United Nations, has set a series of targets to end world poverty and hunger. The gap between the rich and poor causes over 50,000 children to die from preventable diseases cause by poverty everyday.
These millennium goals are the gold standard we are all aiming for. for more facts about Global Poverty and the reasons why ICROSS focuses on these areas, please see here.
1.WOMEN
92% of the women who die in pregnancy and childbirth, live in the poor world. The life expectancy of rural women in sub-Saharan Africa is 40% less than in Western Europe. The challenges are enormous. ICROSS has a number of long-range programs to improve the health and well being of women.
a) Maternal Health Care;
We have been developing long-term maternal health programmes since 1980. Together with institutions around the world, we have developed training programmes for mothers in their local language through their traditional belief systems. As part of strengthening women’s health, we have developed over 200 women’s groups and set up training systems within local communities led by the mothers, grandmothers and traditional birth attendants
b) Maternity Units
Through our network of clinics and health facilities, supporting pastoralist communities, we are going to build maternity units across the rift valley. This will allow us to protect women. For more information, please click here.
c) Safe Motherhood
d) Reproductive Health/Family Planning
With over a billion people living in the Sub-Sahara, many living in extreme poverty, family planning is critical to break the poverty trap. ICROSS provides choice, contraception, family planning alternatives and culturally appropriate reproductive health care.
e) Nutrition
In 2011, over 40% of young Maasai mothers are anemic. ICROSS health programmes are working with hundreds of villages ensuring that young mothers receive proper nutrition monitoring and home support [LINK]
2. CHILDREN
The poorest children on earth live in rural Sub-Sahara. Over 80% of starvation and ¾ of preventable deaths occur in this region. In many areas, 1 in 5 children die before their 5th birthday. The suffering facing these children can be stopped. The gap between a child born in rural Africa and Western Europe has never been bigger. ICROSS has been developing effective ways of improving child health for over three decades [ICROSS research page]
a) Primary Health Care
All ICROSS clinics provide comprehensive primary care to children in the homes and schools. This includes immunizing against the main six killer diseases; Tuberculosis, diphtheria, Whooping cough, polio, meningitis and tetanus, monitoring the growth of infants, nutritional support to malnourished children. For 16 years, ICROSS has pioneered innovations, finding new ways to improve drinking water for children and reduce diarrhea infections [LINK to RCSI SODIS research]. We are developing new ways to prevent blindness from Trachoma. Our child survival programme has reached over 200,000 children since it began in 1984.
3. HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA
Most of the worlds HIV victims live in Africa. The vast majority of all AIDS death occurs in the Sub-Sahara. Over 14 million children have been orphaned by AIDS; 2 million in Kenya alone. The AIDS crisis in Africa continues to be devastating [LINK]. Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, ICROSS has been proactive in developing culturally sensitive interventions and awareness programmes. Since our early work identifying the local needs [LINK], we have been developing long-range solutions to complex issues of sexual behavior.
a) Prevention and Health Promotion encouraging Safe Sex. Over 20 years, ICROSS has implemented care of HIV/AIDS patients in their own homes across many districts in Kenya (each of these districts is larger than a European country) [LINK]. We have provided home-based care to over 4000 victims of AIDS. [LINK]
b) AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children
For two decades, ICROSS has worked with local communities. We help children remain in their own tribal communities keeping them in their own social structure. We believe that orphaned children need to be part of the community and not institutionalized. We have developed culturally sensitive approaches to responding to individual needs where the children are people and not statistics. We provide practical help, education and support local community initiatives.
c) TB
ICROSS has been working with the ministry of health in many districts, strengthening the local resources and ability to respond to the increasing threat of drug resistant tuberculosis.
d) Malaria
ICROSS has a dynamic Malaria prevention project
download our latest report.
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/malaria/features/2287-10-facts-on-malaria-in-africa.html
Children living in poverty
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In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
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Every year 15 million children die of hunger
*
For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
*
Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
*
The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
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One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture
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The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy
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Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF
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3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
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In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.
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In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
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The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.
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One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.
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Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
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In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.
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Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
*
About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age
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To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
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The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.
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Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
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It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
*
Every year 15 million children die of hunger
*
For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
*
Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
*
The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
*
One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture
*
The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy
*
Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF
*
3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
*
In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.
*
In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
*
The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.
*
One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.
*
Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
*
In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.
*
Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
*
About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age
*
To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
*
The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.
*
Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
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It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
poverty in Africa
Facts on Poverty in Africa www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
* 325 million people – one in two of people in Sub Saharan Africa survive on less than one dollar per day
* 184 million people – 33% of the African population – suffer from malnutrition
* During the 1990s the average income per capita decreased in 20 African countries
* Less than 50% of Africa’s population has access to hospitals or doctors
* In 2000, 300 million Africans did not have access to safe water
* The average life expectancy in Africa is 41 years
* Only 57% of African children are enrolled in primary education, and only one of three children complete school
* One in six children die before the age of 5. This number is 25 times higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in the OECD countries
* Children account for half of all civilian casualties in wars in Africa
* The African continent lost more than 5,3 million hectares of forest during the decade of the 1990s
* Less than one person out of five has electricity. Out of 1.000 inhabitants 15 have a telephone line, and 7,8 out of 1.000 people surf on Internet.
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Africa is the second largest continent on earth, occupying 20% of the Earth's land area. Africa measures about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from north to south and about 4,600 miles from east to west.
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Africa’s population is slightly less than 14% of the total world population.
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Only about 6% of Africa is arable; nearly 25% is forested or wooded.
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Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Nigeria are the major petroleum and natural gas producing countries in Africa. Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Africa together produce 50% of the world's diamonds. Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe together produce nearly 50% of the world’s gold.
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Africa's major languages include Arabic (North), Berber (Morocco and Algeria), Bantu group of languages (central and southern Africa), Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), Akan (Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire), Saharan and Maba (Chad basin), Koma (the Blue Nile basin), and Songhai (upper-middle Niger River region).
www.icrosskenya.org
* 325 million people – one in two of people in Sub Saharan Africa survive on less than one dollar per day
* 184 million people – 33% of the African population – suffer from malnutrition
* During the 1990s the average income per capita decreased in 20 African countries
* Less than 50% of Africa’s population has access to hospitals or doctors
* In 2000, 300 million Africans did not have access to safe water
* The average life expectancy in Africa is 41 years
* Only 57% of African children are enrolled in primary education, and only one of three children complete school
* One in six children die before the age of 5. This number is 25 times higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in the OECD countries
* Children account for half of all civilian casualties in wars in Africa
* The African continent lost more than 5,3 million hectares of forest during the decade of the 1990s
* Less than one person out of five has electricity. Out of 1.000 inhabitants 15 have a telephone line, and 7,8 out of 1.000 people surf on Internet.
#
Africa is the second largest continent on earth, occupying 20% of the Earth's land area. Africa measures about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from north to south and about 4,600 miles from east to west.
#
Africa’s population is slightly less than 14% of the total world population.
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Only about 6% of Africa is arable; nearly 25% is forested or wooded.
#
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Nigeria are the major petroleum and natural gas producing countries in Africa. Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Africa together produce 50% of the world's diamonds. Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe together produce nearly 50% of the world’s gold.
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Africa's major languages include Arabic (North), Berber (Morocco and Algeria), Bantu group of languages (central and southern Africa), Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), Akan (Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire), Saharan and Maba (Chad basin), Koma (the Blue Nile basin), and Songhai (upper-middle Niger River region).
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Reflections Founder ICROSS
"Everything changes when you wake up in the morning and decide to own today. It will not be taken from you by anyone else, it will be yours "
Michael Meegan, Changing the World
www.michaelmeegan.net
www.eye-books.com
" When we feel overwhelmed by all the suffering in the world, or just drained by the stress of the day, do this. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and know that the very breath you are taking is the same miracle of life that pervades all creation. He who gives you this breath, despite your anxieties , fears and pain, knows you. He knows you better than you will ever understand yourself. Breathe in, breathe out. You are experiencing the miracle. The most amazing miracle of all. The gift of life. All things will find harmony in this knowing, in this , is the whisper of not only all creation, but of the Creator" Michael Meegan
"Your energy is powered by your thoughts, negative thoughts drain you, loving thoughts fill you with love"
Michael Meegan, The Tribe of one
www.eye-books.com
" when we really know ourselves, we forgive always"
Michael Meegan
ALL WILL BE WELL
www.eye-books.com
"If you really want to know who your friends are, see you stands by you in a storm"
Mike Meegan
" Remind yourself of your vision, keep your hopes close yo your heart, be passionate about them and always ,always always be true to them"
Michael Meegan
Changing the World
" The most important language of personal joy is the often complex linguistics of silence"
Michael Meegan
ALL WILL BE WELL
Michael Meegan, Changing the World
www.michaelmeegan.net
www.eye-books.com
" When we feel overwhelmed by all the suffering in the world, or just drained by the stress of the day, do this. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and know that the very breath you are taking is the same miracle of life that pervades all creation. He who gives you this breath, despite your anxieties , fears and pain, knows you. He knows you better than you will ever understand yourself. Breathe in, breathe out. You are experiencing the miracle. The most amazing miracle of all. The gift of life. All things will find harmony in this knowing, in this , is the whisper of not only all creation, but of the Creator" Michael Meegan
"Your energy is powered by your thoughts, negative thoughts drain you, loving thoughts fill you with love"
Michael Meegan, The Tribe of one
www.eye-books.com
" when we really know ourselves, we forgive always"
Michael Meegan
ALL WILL BE WELL
www.eye-books.com
"If you really want to know who your friends are, see you stands by you in a storm"
Mike Meegan
" Remind yourself of your vision, keep your hopes close yo your heart, be passionate about them and always ,always always be true to them"
Michael Meegan
Changing the World
" The most important language of personal joy is the often complex linguistics of silence"
Michael Meegan
ALL WILL BE WELL
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