Health

We’re working to provide healthy foods for children and mothers, educate communities, and safeguard the most vulnerable people from common illnesses.

At TRHI, our health programs are mainly focused on young children, newborns, youth, and women. We base our programming methods on context-specific and evidence-based research. Learn more about our implementation approach.

No child should die of a preventable disease. Yet, according to UNICEF, one in 34 children under the age of five in Nigeria die before their first birthday, many from preventable causes such as diarrhea, pneumonia, birth complications, and malaria.

Why? Because many women and children lack access to the fundamental healthcare they desperately need. Untreated diseases exacerbate the impacts of diseases like malnutrition, malaria and HIV, stifle education and economic progress, and perpetuate the poverty cycle.

The solution? Invest in women’s and children’s health.

At The Rising Hope Initiative, we understand that investing in the health, and quality of life of women and children yields significant and long-term benefits. Women’s health promotion increases the quality of life for both women and children. Unfortunately, women in Nigeria, have a very dismal quality of life.

To this end, we at TRHI continue to focus our health strategy on women and children, using a continuum of care and a life cycle approach to improve health and nutrition practises and prevent major causes of diseases.

In our health programming for the well-being of children and the treatment of childhood illnesses, we promote the WHO and UNICEF integrated approach, which include access to immunizations, and the promotion of bed nets for use against malaria.

This strategy is consistent with our goal of supporting the United Nations in reaching the health-related Millennium Development Goals of reducing child mortality under the age of five, reducing maternal mortality, and combating HIV and AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea, and other infectious diseases.

Our approach focuses on improving the availability and accessibility of affordable health services and interventions for women and children.

Our interventions include:

• Providing basic medications and supplies used to prevent and treat diseases at the community level.
• Collaborating with local health workers, and in-country partners to expand our reach.
• Providing resources, training, supervision, and financial assistance.
• Addressing malnutrition, which accounts for 50 percent of all fatalities among children under the age of five.

Our progress:

• 2,000 ready-to-use therapeutic food packages containing healthy and nutritious foods delivered to families.
• 1,239 persons took part in training, counselling, or activities that promote healthy eating and feeding habits.
• 2,449 children were immunized against childhood illnesses at the proper age.
• 2,736 children got appropriate and timely care for severe childhood diseases.
• Personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves, and hand sanitizers were distributed to 1,149 persons to prevent infections such as COVID-19.
• 3,500 children received deworming treatments to support their health and development.
• 4,699 people participated in reproductive, maternal, infant, child, and adolescent health training, counselling, or activities.