In most of Africa people are so poor they have no health services. The establishment of ICAN is to provide essential medical and health programmes in many remote areas. We can ensure that vital medical care is accessible by people living in absolute poverty, by supplying existing dispensaries and training community health workers.
Thousands of women die unnecessarily through pregnancy and childbirth. Many more suffer from malnutrition and serious illness. ICAN hopes to implement women's health and safe motherhood programmes throughout the villages in Kenya. With your help mothers could have the right to choose through appropriate reproductive health care, have safe pregnancies with proper nutrition, and have qualified home delivery through trained birth attendants.
Child Health
The most vulnerable population in Africa is children. The vast majority dying needlessly are children who are often too weak from hunger to fight disease. With over 140 million hungry children in sub Sahara Africa, more children live in absolute poverty than ever before.
The average child in Africa has 30 times more illness and disease each year than a European child. The average child in Africa has less than US$ 10 a year expenditure on health and less than US$ 50 a year to food. ICAN projects will involve educating and training mothers and older children to protect the health of small children.
Water-related diseases are a growing human tragedy, killing more than 5 million people each year About 2.3 billion people suffer from diseases linked to dirty water. Some 60% of all infant mortality worldwide is linked to infectious and parasitic diseases, most of them water-related.
Water-borne diseases include cholera, typhoid, bacillary dysentery, polio, meningitis, hepatitis A and E and diarrhea, among others. These are diseases caused by dirty water, and most can be prevented by treating water before use. Every day, diarrheal diseases cause some 6,000 deaths, mostly among children under five.
Over 70% of rural Africa has no access to safe and clean water. Millions of children die every year because they drink dirty water. The most cost effective health care is to prevent disease before it happens. Over the last 12 months our alliances have disinfected over 150 water sources that serves over 30,000 nomads.