Help impoverished children with medical conditions stay healthy at home.

Why we care: Poor, sick children are at a higher risk to end up back in the hospital, because when they are released, they return to an impoverished home.

How we’re solving this: This project will pay for medicine, milk, and food for 620 children with medical conditions and their mothers for a month.

Associação Saúde Criança (ASC) has developed The Family Action Plan (FAP) a multidimensional action plan that addresses all the components necessary to achieve sustainable good health for an entire family, normally a single-parent household with a woman and 3 or 4 kids. The children that this project helps have a variety of illnesses such as leukemia, cancer and stomach diseases.

FAP is a two-year blueprint that helps these families improve in five major areas: health, housing, income generation, education*, and citizenship. By lifting women and their children out of poverty, ASC’s method represents true recovery for those who suffer.

ASC will work with 250 families and provide food, milk, medicine, equipment (nebulizers, wheelchairs, etc.) and technical support from professionals such as nutritionists and psychologists to ensure the children’s chronic or acute illnesses are well managed.

*More information regarding the education component can be found here.