Education
To ensure children can access and benefit from quality education, World Vision will assist the community to:
- Helping parents understand the importance of education for their children's future, and the future of the community as a whole.
- Establish early education centres in the communities, so children can get the stimuli and instruction they need to thrive.
- Train teachers and guide mothers to operate the centres.
- Start tutoring programs in primary school subjects to help students who are struggling academically.
- Establish and equip play and learn corners in schools to better engage and motivate children.
- Train children and youth in leadership, rights, and responsibilities, and help them to participate in community decision-making.
Health Care
With the partnership of Canadian sponsors and the community, World Vision will work to:
- Select and train guide mothers in nutrition, hygiene, and other preventive care practices.
- Work alongside guide mothers to help them pass on their knowledge to other mothers.
- Help families establish family gardens and raise small animals so children can have a healthy diet.
- Support pregnant mothers to get pre- and postnatal care, as well as improve their diet.
- Help mothers see the importance of protecting children's health by breastfeeding, getting children immunized and dewormed, and taking micronutrient supplements.
- Train health volunteers and mothers in the management of respiratory and diarrheal illnesses.
Economic Development
To ensure parents in San Bartolo can provide for their families, World Vision will partner with the community to:
- Train families to manage their productive units.
- Help improve families access to seed funding to start small businesses or improve existing production.
- Provide training and technical assistance to small business owners.
- Provide support and training to diversify production based on market needs, commercialize production, find new markets, and improve distribution networks.
- Improve irrigation systems to increase agricultural production.
- Organize and train community-based organizations to diagnose problems, formulate, implement, and monitor projects, as well as manage resources to improve the lives of children and families.
- Train and empower community members and leaders to advocate for support for their community from the government, and participate in decision-making opportunities.