One Picture One Story Week #102

Greetings to all members of this prestigious community and to you who is taking time to read my post. You are welcome to my blog. Today, I want to participate in one of the amazing contest called One picture one story.

I have miss this contest for some time now, Seeing it today gladdened my heart, this is one of the amazing contest that helps steemians to showcase their creativity by using a picture and build a memorable story.

This week,I want to share with you how I participate in one of the community health programme.
The programme was giving of Vitamins A, deworming tablet for children under five years and also distribution UP supplement for pregnant women. It was huge and lovely campaign.

Vitamin A supplement campaign was not house to house like national immunisation plus Days (NIPDS) we only go to school, churches and fixed post (town hall etc) to provide this service to children from 6 Months to 59 months.

When we arrive a place in our daily implementation plan (DIP) we greet, introduce ourselves, and sort for eligible children. We carry out health education which helps in creating awareness about the programme and it health benefits.

We all know that all fingers are not the same, in rural areas some people are dying because of ignorance and inability to access good health care, campaign like this helps lots of them.

On every health talk we help mother to know that vitamin A supplement is essential nutrients that helps in improving children eyesight especially when in low light. It is helpful in strengthening children immunity which helps in fighting unnecessary infection.

This supplement also protect our children's skins and lining of the gut and lung. Vitamin A supplement is important to your child life because it helps to reduce the severity of disease like measles, diarrhoea, respiratory infections, night blindness and other child illness and even death. Last it support children's proper growth and development.

Nutritionally, We also have food that contains Vitamin A, such as carrot, sweet potatoes, pumpkin,Red palm oil,egg,Liver, milk and dark green leafy vegetables like spinach and Ugu.

At the end of every health talk, mother, teacher and caregivers are given opportunity to questions and share their concern about the programme, this helps us to know if we impacted knowledge or not.

We show mother the two types of vitamins A supplement that is available, the first one is the Blue Which is for children from 6 months of age to 11 month old while the red capsules is for 12 months to 59 months old.

The programme was for five days, it was stressful to me because of my little daughter, from the picture you can see that I use carrier for her while working. Although it was stressful to her and me, we were still happy to save a lives.

My passion for health comes from the joy of saving lives. Helping to save the lives of children and mothers contributes to reducing illness and death in our country.

We also sincerely appreciate Helen Keller for giving out this supplement for free, because there are many who will not have money to afford it.

Am extremely excited to share my immunisation campaign pictures with you all. I would like to invite @lirvic @max-pro, @suboohi and @chant to share their one picture and tell us a story behind.