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The Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) of the Ukwega Ward in central Tanzania measures its success by the growth and development of the children in the program. Read about 36 girls and boys who reached their first, second, third, and fourth birthdays in good health and on target to reach all their development milestones in […]
In this series, families in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program in Tanzania explain how their participation improves their lives. Global Volunteers’ RCP Program engages short-term volunteers to help parents deliver essential services improving health, eradicating hunger, and enhancing cognition – with the goal of eliminating child stunting in the Ukwega Ward and throughout […]
Global Volunteers promotes the well-being of children around the world in many different ways so they can realize their full potential. This fourth post in a series describes how the Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) provides rural Tanzanian parents and their children needed dental information and care to improve their health. The RCP Program in […]
What’s more fun than BABIES? In this series, we focus on the newest members of the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program in Tanzania — newborns. In this post, we welcome twelve babies born in May 2021. Their moms joined the program to provide them a healthy start at life, and the nutrition and care […]
Every month, Global Volunteers’ caregivers in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania meet with families who wish to participate in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program. The goal of RCP is to eliminate childhood stunting in all five of the villages served: Ipalamwa, Makalanga, Lulindi, Ukwega, and Makungu. Specifically, families obtain the nutrition, health care, knowledge, technology, […]
Unlike new diseases such as COVID-19, intestinal infections caused by parasitic worms have a known and readily available cure. Still, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), intestinal worms affect over 1.5 billion of the world’s poorest and most marginalized people. How is this possible? Read on about Global Volunteers’ effort to prevent infections and […]
The Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) of the Ukwega Ward in central Tanzania measures its success by the growth and development of the children in the program. Read about 23 girls and boys who reached their first, second, third, and fourth birthdays in good health and on target to reach all their development milestones in […]
In this series, families in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program in Tanzania explain how their participation improves their lives. Global Volunteers’ RCP Program engages short-term volunteers to help parents deliver essential services improving health, eradicating hunger, and enhancing cognition – with the goal of eliminating child stunting in the Ukwega Ward and throughout […]
It is said in Tanzania that “A mother is a great army.” We interpret that to refer to the strength and resolve needed to raise children in challenging circumstances – not unlike raising an army in any developing country. Our experience with pregnant women and mothers in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania informs us of […]
Along the dusty, bumpy East African roads outside Iringa in the central highlands of Tanzania are traditional villages where life is lived in startling simplicity. Arriving in Ipalamwa in the Ukwega Ward, two teams of physical therapy students from Regis University Global Health Pathways group found a way of life vastly different from their own, […]