Recap of our day at the Kitimbwa Child Survival Program

Here's a video summary of our day yesterday in Kitimbwa. This is a community of about 40,000 people. Typical houses are constructed of dirt floors, mud or adobe walls, and corrugated iron roofs. People here eat things like maize, beans, bananas, and fish. Common health problems include malarial and respiratory illness. Half of the adults in this town are unempoyed but some work as subsistence farmers and earn around $11 a month. This community needs employment opportunities, proper sanitation, funds for recreation facilities, and literacy programs. Compassion sponsorship allows the program staff to provide pregnant mothers and mothers with infants with adequate nutrition, meetings to develop good parenting skills, adult literacy training, and training for entrepreneurial skills. The mothers are also taught how to prevent transmission of HIV to their children and HIV/AIDS care.