Education
Education is a life-long process that begins at birth and takes place in the family and community as much as in school. It's about helping children to acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes that will be useful throughout their lives. Education also unlocks children's potential and contributes to the development of societies generally. But millions of children around the world are missing out on even the most basic education.
ICAN will ensure that all children get access to good quality education by tackling poverty, helping communities run schools, training teachers, developing education policies and curricula, supporting flexible learning schemes, developing educational opportunities for very young children, and providing education for children caught up in emergencies
Infectious Disease Control
ICAN will work to reduce some of the impacts of the worst killers in Africa; diarrheal illness and waterborne diseases. Successful diarrhea control has been replicated around the world by our partnering organizations who have produced the only three clinical control trials of solar disinfection to reduce diarrhea. These infectious disease programmes cover a wide range of diseases such as cholera typhoid and diarrhea, as well as trachoma infections and sexually transmitted infections.
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 an 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 works in 42 small projects educating and training mothers and elder children to protect the health of small children.
Child health initiatives will include child to child health promotion, immunization and follow up, child nutrition, educational support for non-school going children and working through women's groups, targeting other vulnerable children. Child development and assessment of nutritional progress is the cornerstone of child health programmes in desert areas.