Hetv.org Health education for mothers and children in poor villages.
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Focus on Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, Diarrhoea, Breastfeeding, Dehydration and Oral Rehydration - Health Education to Villages
Description
Health Education To Villages (HETV) was launched by Rehydration Project in April, 2004, to address the challenge of improving health education in underdeveloped countries. HETV is a private, non-profit development group that works within the existing health framework of developing countries to establish and promote health educational programs that will provide rapid and long-term capacity-building to improve health and quality of life, and will give mothers and communities more control over their health status. Partnered with national and state governments, we work to assist in educating mothers and children, teachers and students, doctors and village health workers, and a variety of community leaders, in the targeted areas of health, water, hygiene, and sanitation. We employ all the media available to us - education satellites, computer-based training, television, radio, cinema screens, posters, and more - to better inform and educate communities, so that good health practices spread as quickly as possible.
HETV is currently working with the state of Maharashtra in India - a state of 100 million people - as the pilot state for many of our programs, with the hope of developing education networks that will expand to the rest of India, and eventually to nations all over the world. We are developing and executing targeted programs designed to reach a wide variety of audiences. The programs include computer-based training of health workers (in local languages), educating villagers about safe water disinfection, health educational television and radio programs, and providing mothers with simple learning materials about health, hygiene, and disease management, with a primary focus on diarrhoeal diseases and Oral Rehydration Therapy.
In developing countries some 1.1 billion people - one sixth of the world's population - do not have access to clean water, and almost 2.5 billion lack knowledge of basic hygiene. Without safe and sufficient food and water, disease spreads far too easily. According to the World Health Organization, 250 million people suffer yearly from diseases caused by dirty water, and 6,000 of these people die every day. These water-related diseases are the leading cause of death around the world, far ahead of war, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction combined. When such great numbers of people are malnourished, dehydrated, and underfed, they lack the immune systems to fight disease. When disease does spread, they lack the health education and resources to use simple solutions and manage disease before it reaches a crisis. Health crises quickly escalate, and the effects are socially and economically devastating. As such, the cycle of poverty, malnutrition, and disease perpetuates.
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- Health Education To Villages
- P. O. Box No. 1
- Cavelossim, Goa, 403731
- India
- Phone: +91 99 7053 0004
- Fax : +1 913 273-8778
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