Health
04/08/2020
Many people lack access to basic healthcare. ACROSS addresses issues such as immunizations, chronic illness, and preventive education.
Posts related to Health:
Saving Sight and Lives: ACROSS Empowers Health Workers for Vitamin A and Deworming Campaign. Each year, an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 children worldwide suffer blindness due to vitamin A deficiency, with approximately half of these children succumbing to death within a year of losing their sight. In response to this pressing health issue, the World Health Organization… 
Breaking the Stigma: Empowering Women in Kajo Keji Through Dignity Kits In collaboration with Divine Seeds of Dignity (DSD), a community and self-help women's organization in Kajo Keji, ACROSS recently trained 33 women and teenage mothers in the production of dignity kits. This initiative aimed to address critical challenges faced by… 
Restoration and improvement of livelihood for peaceful co-existence in Lakes State. The Peace Economy Project-Phase-III ACROSS and Bread for the World (BfTW) have collaborated on livelihood programs in Rumbek Center and Wulu Counties since 2006. These initiatives have included building water yards, planting crops to produce food, and supplying ox plows.… 
Ebola Prevention and Preparation Program ACROSS has launched an emergency media campaign in partnership with the Ministry of Health and funded by Tearfund to help engage local communities on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) prevention and preparation. This project - like many ACROSS programs - uses… 
Refugee Care While many South Sudanese have been internally displaced from their traditional homes, others in surrounding countries have some to South Sudan to seek refuge. The need for refugee care in South Sudan is a tragic outcome of instability and unrest…
