This video discusses the life-saving power of Care Groups. A Care Group is a group of 10-15 volunteer, community-based health promoters who regularly meet together with NGO project staff for training and supervision. Each of these volunteers then go out at least monthly to do health promotion with a small cohort of mothers of young children. They are different from typical mothers groups in that each volunteer is responsible for regularly visiting 10-15 of her neighbors, sharing what she has learned and facilitating behavior change at the household level. Care Groups create a multiplying effect to equitably reach every beneficiary household with interpersonal behavior change communication. Data from 13 projects in 8 countries show that Care Groups can cut the child death rate on average 30%, more than double that of other child survival projects.
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Care , Child Deaths , CORE Group , Developing Countries , Food for the hungry , Groups , USAID
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tdavismph
Science & Technology
3 months ago
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