The Answer: Local Health Care Promoters

The qualified organizations that the Watson Children’s Foundation sends children’s medicines to, have health care promoters in the communities and villages.  These health care promoters live in the communities and villages.  This way the poor needy children in these remote places have someone available to help them at all times.  One of the health care promoters told us that before they started their long term outreach program, they used to suffer waiting for the government to put a clinic or a doctor in their community but now they have come to a different vision of what their community can be.  They see that they can work together, that they don’t have to wait for something to happen.  They have already made great progress, teaching the poor needy people to practice good hygiene and to wash their dishes with soap, wash their hands, keep animals out of their house.  Now the needy children are not getting sick and dying of diarrhea like they used to.  The Watson Foundation would like short term mission teams to think about starting these types of programs so that the poor needy people and sick children will have help in their villages and communities on a day to day basis.  The short term missions can continue to go when they can and assist and update the training of the promoters.  There would be less sick children if some type of long term outreach program could be placed in all villages and communites and urban slums within the developing countries.