Dear Friends
Many of you already know our work but for those who dont we are all about empowering young adolescents to be health ambassadors in their families and communities.
To help educators of all kinds, and parents too, we co-create posters and storybooks and guides on many different health topics...we do this with experts, teachers and children and in a slow and highly consultative way. Many people from this HIFA \ CHIFA network have helped.
This September we are launching our 'Boxes for Health' campaign - trying to get hard copies of our A3 size, two-sided laminated sets of posters in boxes to schools. Two sets per school = 30 posters. We need around £200 GBP for the two sets per school and all the costs associated with getting that box to the school. We have a bit of funding to start us off and then we will be looking for more. Ideally we will find funding from local business inside a country e.g. we have contact with a phone company inside Zambia who may be able to help arrange the printing and distribution and fund boxes for health for some schools in Zambia etc.
We are at the very start of this and looking for contacts in Liberia where we have a really great contact wanting to help schools in Konobo District. Also we have links with the Ministry of Education in Central Turkana in Kenya and have 103 schools there wanting a box each! Then we have closely allied schools in Eswatini and Zambia too.
If you have any ideas of ways to improve our campaign or local contacts do let us know. I know that UNICEF sometimes gets involved with sending material to schools. This might be a good way to get more of our posters and storybooks out to schools who want them but we need an introduction. What do you think?
More information is here eg on the campaign, how to register a beneficiary school or a donor school - our topics and how we have created the posters.
https://www.childrenforhealth.org/boxes-for-health/
Thanks a lot. Looking forward to hearing your opinions.
Best wishes
Clare Hanbury
HIFA profile: Clare Hanbury is director of Children for Health. She qualified as a teacher in the UK and then worked in schools in Kenya and Hong Kong. After an MA in Education in Developing Countries and for many years, Clare worked for The Child-to-Child Trust based at the University of London's Institute of Education where, alongside Hugh Hawes and Professor David Morley she worked to help embed the Child-to-Child ideas of children's participation in health – into government and non-government cchild health and education programmes in numerous countries. Clare has worked with these ideas alongside vulnerable groups of children such as refugees and street children. Since her MSc in International Maternal and Child Health, Clare focused on helping government and non-government programmes to design and deliver child-centered health and education programmes where children are active participants. Clare has worked in many countries in East and Southern Africa and in Pakistan, Cambodia and the Yemen. In July 2013, Clare founded the NGO, Children for Health and develops health education materials and and works on health education programmes alongside partners all over the world. https://www.hifa.org/support/members/clare clare AT childrenforhealth.org