Child Nutrition in the Brick Kilns area

Summary

The information from this project will be used to develop healthcare education messages such as importance of vaccination, healthy eating during pregnancy, benefits of breast feeding. The quantitative data will be used to lever local funds for the development of a nutrition support clinic for mothers and infants in this community.

This project covers the following Abaseen Foundation supported locations: Noor Model School

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Noor Model School serves the community that live and work on the Brick Kiln, making bricks from the earth and baking them in kilns that run 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, burning rubber tyres and coal to fuel the kilns.

The homes are very basic with no running water. Water is obtained mainly from tube wells. Our pilot investigations, based on mid upper arm circumference and weight for age, suggest that 16% of the children are moderately malnourished, 69.4% severely malnourished and only 14 % are healthy. Anaemia and worm infestations are also prevalent. Access to health care is patchy at best, and reliant on private clinics which are expensive, or travelling to the teaching hospital in Peshawar.

How will this project solve this problem?

The aims of this project are twofold:

  • To collect baseline data regarding nutritional status (basic anthrompometric measurements) to determine the extent of malnutrition in women and children in this community.
  • To gather opinions from members of the community, through focus group discussions with men and women, regarding their health care priorities.

Objectives:

  1. Conduct a house to house survey in a sample of the population (300 households). Information will be collected including:-
    • Anthropometry
    • Demographics and socio economic status
    • Housing and sanitation facilities
    • Reproductive history
    • Food intake History
  2. Conduct focus group sessions with community members to gain views on current health care provision, maternal, infant feeding and weaning practises.

Expected outcomes

The information gathered will be used to develop healthcare education messages that will be disseminated to this community. Examples might include the importance of vaccination, healthy eating during pregnancy, benefits of breast feeding.

The quantitative data regarding the prevalence of malnutrition will be used to lever local funds for the development of a nutrition support clinic for mothers and infants in this community.

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Where is this project located?

Health, Noor Model School, Research