HEALTH CARE

Turning Interest Into Action

Health is a big concern in the Village Heights Community.

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A lot of people do not know much about the importance of their health. They suffer from injuries and illnesses for years, but they do not know how they can help themselves or each other. They do not have the necessary training skills or financial resources to consult a doctor. They suffer from illnesses they did not even know existed.

This has a huge negative impact on the children. Not knowing how to help themselves, the parents cannot look after the health of their children. A lot of them are undernourished and underdeveloped.

The majority of the children have cavities and have never seen a toothbrush. With the donations we buy toothbrushes and toothpaste, so that every morning the children can gather around the water station to brush their teeth with us.  

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The Seawinds clinic is located only a few minutes away, and we will try to make arrangements with the nurses and doctors there, so that people are at least provided with the most basic resources and can ask questions concerning their health.

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Furthermore, we want to start a first aid course composed of different lessons around various topics like bandaging to CPR. This will allow people to know how to help themselves and others in emergency situations.

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Our ´Food 4 Life´ project gives courses on nutrition for children and adults. Not knowing what is good for their body and what is not, we want to show them how simple it is to eat healthy and in our soup kitchen, we show them that it also tastes good!

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Our overall aim is to increase the general health level in Village Heights.