OUR HEALTH WORKS
Healthy spirit, a healthy mind, a healthy body matters in childhood.
NCDP has actively ensured that infants and young children have improved age-appropriate development and early learning outcomes and are protected at home and in their communities.
Maternal and Child Health
Every year, there is a cases of maternal deaths which can be preventable with timely management by a skilled health professional working in a supportive environment. its our concern to ensure ending preventable maternal death and also expand efforts reducing maternal injury and disability to promote health and wellbeing.
We implement program that Address inequalities that affect health outcomes, especially sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender, it is fundamental to ensuring all women have access to respectful and high-quality maternity care.
Nutrition
Nawiri programming works to fight against malnutrition, because the right nutrition at the right time builds the capacity to dream, it fuels the power to achieve, and it lays the foundation upon which to build a better world for our children. Nawiri train and mobilize community health workers to provide nutrition services to caregivers.
Sexual and Reproductive Health
inadequate sexual reproduction health remain critical issue in Marsabit, Isiolo and Samburu county. which result to higher rate of early pregnancy, unsafe abortion, spread for sexually transmitted disease, this has been due to challenges such as cultural barriers, gender inequality and insufficient health care infrastructure.
In collaboration with our partners, leaders and advocacy groups, and engaging community health workers to promote SRH awareness and address cultural and social barriers, we work to foster community support and increase the uptake of SRH services and practices.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Clean water is fundamental to child’s health, poor sanitation and unsafe drinking water is major contributor of stunt growth and malnutrition of children, it will also lead to spread of water born disease such as typhoid, cholera.
Women and girls most often bear the responsibility of collecting water and managing fuel sources needed to boil water and ensure it is clean enough to drink. Improved WASH facilities reduce the time and physical burden associated with these tasks, enhance educational opportunities for girls and improve overall gender equity.
Nawiri child development program work with local partner to enhance improving access to water and sanitation facilities, supporting local water and sanitation committees to manage and maintain water sources, and educating children and families on the importance of safe water and healthy practices.
sexual abuse and gender-based violence Education
Every Year children are subjected to sexual abuse and gender-based violence which has been as result of food shortage which made child vulnerable in society, harmful cultural practices such as early marriages and girl child Circumcision. Nawiri child development programme works toward ending children violence.