ICROSS PROJECTS 2011-2012 Making a difference in Africa

ICROSS PROJECTS 2011-2012 Making a difference in Africa
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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
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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
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" 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
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" when we really know ourselves, we forgive always"
Michael Meegan
ALL WILL BE WELL
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"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

livng and giving

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller


joy is in giving without telling anyone that you did it
Michael Meegan

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

before you sleep tonight ... think what kindness,what goodness you have brought into
the World this day.
Michael Meegan

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

des moyens novateurs de s'impliquer dans la lutte contre la pauvreté ICROSS Kenya

des moyens novateurs de s'impliquer dans la lutte contre la pauvreté
Communautés Maasai workng avec ICROSS sont des façons novatrices de créer des changements à long terme. Ensemble avec des amis une des partenaires en Europe et en Amérique du Nord ICROSS est la création de projets culturels emmersion avec une différence. ICROSS est encourageant stagiaires désireux de travailler avec les communautés à devenir plus intégrés dans la voie de la vie Massaï. Il est à espérer que cette expérience approfondie sera une expérience plus profonde plus éclairante pour ceux seekng d'apprendre, de grandir et lsten d'une exposition profonde à d'autres cultures.

P et P Ole Ole Sironka Lasoi de ICROSS sont developng e programme avec d'autres aînés Maasa et les dirigeants. L'initiative de la vise également à partager la sagesse et la connaissance du peuple Massaï avec les autres partout dans le monde.

ICROSS Informaton bureau Ngong Kenya 24ème lun. janvier 2011
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