Big little things!

Miracles in a tube!  Josephine, the HealthEd Connect supervisor in the Democratic Republic of Congo shared pictures of two village people they were recently able to help.

The three-year-old child was burned with hot water and the health workers are treating her daily to get the wound healed.  Unfortunately, burns from hot water and cooking fires are common occurrences in the villages where open fires and precariously perched pots are part of the daily living experience.

The picture of the mother's finger looks pretty minor, right?  A little triple antibiotic and a band-aid should do the job.  The issue, however, is lack of even these basic treatments.  This mother cut her hand on sharp grass which later became infected.  Thanks to the health workers and the Neosporin provided by HealthEd Connect supporters, "we cured the wound [and it] is finish" according to Josephine.

No Child Brides here!

GAP graduates at Chhipulukusu, Zambia

Zambia has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world according to Girls Not Brides.  We're working to change that one-girl-at-a-time by providing scholarships, mentoring, and support systems for girls in the HealthEd Connect schools.  We can -- and must-- change this statistic!  Girls who marry young have children who are more likely to be sickly, fewer job opportunities, less family income and the inability to live up to their potential.

The Girls Achievement Programs (GAP) is one of the most popular extracurricular activities in our schools.  Each time we make a site visit, we look forward to visiting with the self-assured, poised, and energetic graduates of the GAP program who are now attending high school with the assistance of HealthEd Connect scholarships.  YOU GO GIRLS!

Innovative baby seats

Baby bundle

Ingenious Sinkhani!  The health workers in Malawi became concerned about the possible contamination of babies that were weighed in the same little cloth baby seat that had just been used for other babies.  They cleverly decided to tie a baby seat out of the cloth wrapper that every mother uses to carry her baby on her back.  Now every baby has the comfort of its own mother's cloth and no baby is exposed to a seat used by another baby!



To make the cloths work properly, however, you have to hold your tongue in the right position!

Cricket Tacos!

Cricket Tacos anyone??

It's all about eating bugs!  The world population is projected to grow 35% in the next 30 years placing huge strains on our capacity to increase food production.  Africa just may have the answer!  Long connoisseurs of termites and wooly worms, Africans may lead us into a sustainable tomorrow.  Take a look at these comparisons:

    Cows - consume 10 pounds of feed, require 200 square feet of pasture, 1,000 gallons of water and are only 40% edible.

    Crickets -  consume 1.7 pounds of feed, require 2 cubic feet of living space, 1 gallon of water and are 80% edible.

Anyone for a cricket?

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Got My Hopes Up!!!

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