Ambassadors of Health – IMSA-Iran
Name of the activity: Ambassadors of Health
Country/NMO: IMSA-Iran
Program: Ethics and Human Rights in Health
Contact information: contact [email protected] to get in touch with the Activity Coordinator
Type of the activity: First-time Activity
Category: Third-party Activity
Focus area: Peace, peacebuilding and health
Sustainable Development Goals addressed: SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities)
Problem statement:
ILO has estimated that there are 250 million child laborers (5-14 years old) worldwide.These children lose opportunity to education.They may have unsafe water supplies and inadequate nutritious food. All of these violate children’s rights and exposes them to increased health risks.
Now according to one of the most important goals of SCORP ,supporting child laborers,we decided to provide a situation for upgrading the physical and mental health of working children.
Target groups:
- Medical students
- Healthcare Students
- Children
- working children
Beneficiaries:
- Medical students
- Healthcare Students
- Children
- Working children
Objectives:
1.our main focus was children who were treated in abusive way by their family and had to work for their basic needs.
Indicators of Success:
1.Increasing awareness of 25 working children at the age of 0 to 12 under the auspices of Gorgan Besat Working Children Care Center about various health issues in the form of a show on January 20,2022
2.Preparing and distributing hygienic packs (including toothbrush, toothpaste, comb) and mirrors,towels and nail clippers for our target group
3.Vision screening for members of target group performed by an optometrist and referring the children with ocular weakness to ophthalmologist,on January 20,2022
- Improving mental health of members of target group by playing group games and providing an environment for children to draw their wishes on January 20,2022
5.Height and weight and screening for members of target group and hair hygiene examination on January 20,2022
- Providing packs of vitamin D supplement and iron supplement tablets and donating them to Gorgan Besat Working Children Care Center to distribute them among the families of our target group on January 20,2022
Methodology:
broadcasting a call in form of a poster to collect financial donations and posting it on Children Are Angels Charity’s page and Goumsa’s page and various virtual pages from December 21, 2021 to January 4, 2022
preparing packs and origami paper SCORP symbol on January 10,2022
On January 20,2022 , at 11 o’clock , Charity team and 6 members of our association will go to Gorgan Besat Working Children Care Center and implement different phases of the project:
training phase
distributing the packs
improving the mental health of children by playing games and the children will be given crayons and papers and will be asked to paint their wishes
While drawing, each person takes responsibility for several children and makes sure that they have learned every thing properly and explains the right answer for them if they give the wrong answer.
screening phase : children will be divided into 2 groups for vision screening and for height and weight screening,then the groups will be replaced
Plans for evaluation:
Quantitative
pre-test
post-test
External collaborations:
none
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