Awareness Raising
UGF/CDN plays a large part in raising awareness about important social and health issues that may affect the people who live in the local villages here, who otherwise may not have access to information about these issues. There are 19 people at UGF/CDN who help with and run the awareness raising sessions.
UGF/CDN focuses its awareness raising around two National Programmes. The first is The National Programme for the Development of Healthcare and the second is Le Programme Chant de Femme.
National Programme for the Development of Healthcare.
These sessions happen in one of the Healthcare Promotion Centres. There are 25 of these centres, each covering between 5 and 10 villages.
The sessions are aimed at everyone in the village, but it is often just the women who participate in the sessions, as such, many of the topics covered focus on issues which women will face, although more general topics are also covered.
The sessions are done in the form of relaxed question and answer based discussions, to ensure that those who attend are free to ask their own questions and have them answered by the session leaders.
Some examples of topics covered in these sessions are:
Programme Chant de Femme
This programme is specifically just for women and takes place over the course of 5 days in a village.
90 women are chosen from each village, by the village chief, to attend the sessions that the team at UGF/CDN runs in collaboration with the Programme Chant de Femme, which funds the sessions. Unlike the sessions based upon the National Programme for the Development of Healthcare, these sessions are more like lessons, which is why the places are limited.
The topics covered in these sessions relate mainly just to women as it is only women who attend the sessions. Some examples of the themes covered are as follows:
UGF/CDN focuses its awareness raising around two National Programmes. The first is The National Programme for the Development of Healthcare and the second is Le Programme Chant de Femme.
National Programme for the Development of Healthcare.
These sessions happen in one of the Healthcare Promotion Centres. There are 25 of these centres, each covering between 5 and 10 villages.
The sessions are aimed at everyone in the village, but it is often just the women who participate in the sessions, as such, many of the topics covered focus on issues which women will face, although more general topics are also covered.
The sessions are done in the form of relaxed question and answer based discussions, to ensure that those who attend are free to ask their own questions and have them answered by the session leaders.
Some examples of topics covered in these sessions are:
- Family Planning
- Consuming Local foods rich in nutrients such as (Vitamin A, Iron, Iodine)
- Promotion of breastfeeding for infants between 0 and 6 months.
- Fight against AIDS and HIV – films are shown about this.
- Child malnutrition (information and detection)
- Demonstrations of how to make nutrient rich foods like porridge for infants.
- Malaria
- Pre Natal Consultations
- Information about Tuberculosis and the prevention of it.
Programme Chant de Femme
This programme is specifically just for women and takes place over the course of 5 days in a village.
90 women are chosen from each village, by the village chief, to attend the sessions that the team at UGF/CDN runs in collaboration with the Programme Chant de Femme, which funds the sessions. Unlike the sessions based upon the National Programme for the Development of Healthcare, these sessions are more like lessons, which is why the places are limited.
The topics covered in these sessions relate mainly just to women as it is only women who attend the sessions. Some examples of the themes covered are as follows:
- Child Health
- Hygiene and Sanitation
- Female Circumcision – Films are shown about this.
- Pre-Natal healthcare.
- Child Nutrition
- Child Development markers.
- Family Planning
- Fight against HIV and AIDS – films are shown about this.