Health is an area that One Child's Village needs your help with. Many of the Mercy Centre children's caretakers can't afford medical attention let alone regular checkups. This is of particular concern for the orphans at the school who are HIV positive. We also recently learned that some of the children are infected with ringworm, jiggers and fungal infection of the scalp. Some of these health concerns are preventable and we want to take proactive measures to decrease these occurrences. Our goals are:

• Provide checkups to the children twice a year. We have secured a local well-trained physician who is willing to do checkups at the school for all 220 children.
  Cost: $300 for the day
  
  
• Provide shoes for the children to prevent jiggers. Learn more about jiggers...
  Cost: $5 per pair per child; $100 will help 20 children
  
  
• Provide a health and first aid kit for the school for basic intervention and sanitation (e.g., disinfectants, latex gloves, tweezers to remove jiggers, bandaids, soap, sanitizers, etc.).
  Cost: $200 per kit
  
  
• Provide better nutrition by improving continuity and diversity of food sources (e.g., beans, maize, rice, milk, eggs, sukumawiki). We know that better nutririon benefits the children's physical health, but it is also a crucial buffer for the various health problems they are susceptible to.
  Cost: $7 feeds 1 child for a month; $20 feeds 3 children; $100 feeds 15 children
  

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