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What's new in 2011

Traditional Healer Refresher Course 2, April, 2011. Report and photos (PDF 335 KB)

May. Traditional healers attended a refresher course last month.

January. Health promotion event, December 2009, Bhandakharkha, Nepal

More: http://www.greentaratrust.com/

Green Tara Trust (GTT)

Donations in memory of Jim Meyers funded the three events on this page

Health promotion event

On January 5, 2011, BODHI's local partner Green Tara Trust held a mass health promotional event in the isolated Tamang community of Bhandarkharkha, Nepal. This was funded in the memory of our friend Jim Meyers by his loved ones.

Artists performed a drama, songs and dances with messages about the importance of washing hands, of post-natal care for infants and of using Clean Delivery Kits. The play dramatised a drunken husband quarreling with his wife and beating her; discussed the dangers of smoking during pregnancy; and showed how husbands can care for pregnant women.

Report (PDF 422 KB)

Traditional healer refresher/training courses

In December 2009, Green Tara Trust held a refresher/training course for traditionalhealersin a remote part of the Kathmandu Valley. Another course will be held in March, 2011. The objectives of the project are:
• To develop coordination and cooperation between traditional medicine practitioners (Traditional Healers) and modern medicine system such as Sub health post (SHP), Hospital as well as Health workers
• To enhance the Traditional Healers (THs) as a health promoter and communicator
• To improve referral system through THs
• To promote maternal, neonatal and child health through THs

Refresher Course 1, December 2009. Report and photos (PDF 411 KB)

Green Tara Trust (GTT)

Dr Jane Stephens started (GTT) in Nepal to bring about change through a community-led, participatory approach to health promotion. She says that working in this way optimises community participation in all levels of planning, recruitment of local staff, fundraising and decision-making.

2 aims & activities

* To train nurse-midwives as health promoters to provide extra support and expertise, working alongside the local government health system in project areas to deliver the programme, and
* To reduce the incidence of diarrhoeal disease & acute respiratory illness in under 5s, the main killers in this group.

Green Tara Trust (pdf 293KB)