Our Approach
OUR APPROACH
Our Approach
At Smile Mums Foundation, our approach revolves around placing communities at the core of our initiatives:
Village Mobile Clinic (MVC)
Every Monday and Friday we conduct a mobile village which enables mothers and children to receive quality healthcare services within the community. The services ranging antenatal care, child health, malarial test care, treatment and support, provision of family planning, and health education.
Birth Outcome Survey
It’s a health facility-based survey that targets every mother within 72 hours of giving birth, the survey aims to assess the health conditions of the mother and the child. The survey involves assessing the weight, Height, MUAC, mode of birth, place of birth, and time of delivery.
Bwalo La Uchembere
Community-led MNeCH discussion sessions are conducted 2 every month in each village or epic center. The discussion focuses on maternal health, positive parenting group education, nutrition, family planning, and sanitation facilitated by Nurses, each session lasts 60 minutes.
Community antenatal care (C-ANC)
The interventions identify and register new pregnant mothers and provide antenatal care – ANC within the community. It targets mothers and girls in their reproductive ages. The approach volunteers distributed HCG pregnant test kits and disposable tumblers to all women who messed up their last month's menstrual period with support from volunteers women collect their urine samples for test. This enables women to start their antennal care ANC within the first trimester -15 weeks.
Community led acute malnutrition management CAMM
The intervention aims at feeding malnourished children for 12 days and providing nutrition health education among parents, caregivers, and volunteers. The Intervention also does nutrition mass screening in the community by assessing child: body weight, height, and MUAC among under-five children.
Maternal Social behavior Change Communication (MNeCH-SBCC)
Communication approach which aims at disseminating information and advocating for best practices in health care services and uptake. The communication mode targets couples and community members with much focus on promoting information about the health care services/interventions distributed in the public health center. MNeCH –SBCC uses various modes of communication thus distributing IEC Materials.
