Education
To ensure children can access and benefit from quality education, World Vision will assist the community to:
- Establish community education centres where, from the time they are born to age six, children can get developmental stimulation and preschool training.
- Train guide mothers and equip them to run education centres.
- Create toy libraries and play areas to aid in the development of children's skills, especially reading comprehension and mathematical reasoning.
- Provide children with leadership training and mentoring.
- Teach parents good care practices, including early developmental stimulation, health, nutrition, and parenting with love.
Health
With the partnership of Canadian sponsors and the community, World Vision will work to:
- Train guide mothers in preventive health care, such as how to manage respiratory and diarrheal illnesses, and when to seek treatment.
- Provide water filters to families and train parents in how to use and maintain them.
- Support guide mothers to pass on their knowledge to other parents, including hand washing, water treatment, proper handling and storage of food, and confining animals to prevent contamination.
- Train guide mothers to promote immunization, micronutrient supplements, deworming, and disease management.
- Train mothers in nutrition, and help monitor malnourished children until they recover.
- Help families start backyard gardens and raise small animals to diversify their diet and improve income.
- Establish and equip local boards to work to improve health, nutrition, and food security.
- Train and monitor pregnant women and provide supplements and food, as well as promote pre- and post-natal care through health centres to ensure babies are born with a healthy weight.
Economic Development
To ensure parents in San Pedro can provide for their families, World Vision will partner with the community to:
- Train families in production techniques, including crop diversification. Help families access micro loans.
- Establish demonstration plots and provide agricultural supplies, so farmers can see new methods and the benefits of change, as well as access resources with which to apply their new knowledge.
- Provide vocational workshops to help families develop new skills that will help them generate income.
- Train families in entrepreneurship.
- Work with families to establish new production initiatives.
