The project ENVOLVE-TE aims to promote maternal and child health, empowering women from Sao Tome and Principe to implement gestures that save lives. One gesture, one person, one step at a time, help us to make the change!
The project of social entrepreneurship ENVOLVE-TE was created by the Changemakers Catarina Neves and Márcia Monteiro under the Training program Spirit'16, promoted by a non-governmental organization WACT - We are Changing Together.
In Sao Tome and Principe over 70% of children live in poverty, then more susceptible to health problems. Currently, 48% of children continue to die from preventable diseases, including waterborne diseases and lack of hygiene and sanitation. Moreover, preventable diseases contribute to high morbidity rates associated with malnutrition and deficits in cognitive development as well as more prone to other diseases.
According to the culture of Sao Tome, women play a central role in daily activities with greater impact on individual, family and community health. For this reason we consider them to be the most effective way to convey our key message - small gestures of prevention are available to everyone.
Thus, we developed a practical training course directed to more isolated communities, targeted especially for women and children in order to raise awareness and provide easily transposable alternatives to their daily routines.
On the other hand, children will be involved in the development of a radio program aiming the perpetuation and amplification of our project’s message to the entire population.
The project will be in the field for 6 weeks in order to reach, directly, about 120 people, and is intending to also form key individuals to maintain the training, sustaining the project.
