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Organization	Sanando Heridas, A.C.
Region	Mexico
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ProjectLeader	Leticia Aguilar

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With this project, the medical team of Sanando Heridas will provide 900 medical consultations to 300 children from the highlands of Chiapas who are in extreme poverty, with translation into tsotsil, including the medicine. These actions will help prevent curable diseases such as respiratory or gastrointestinal infections and malnutrition from becoming fatal.

Challenge

According to the INEGI survey of 2015, a comparison of infant mortality in Mexico, between the national average of 10.8%, in Chiapas of 16.6%, in the Altos region, the area where we work, is 34.5%. Children under 5 years old suffer wasting and emaciation, this decreases their school performance, aggravates the vicious cycle of infection / malnutrition and exposes them to be more susceptible to risk diseases. Under these conditions, diseases that can be preventable or curable, become serious.

Long-Term Impact

This project will reduce the mortality of 200 indigenous Tsotsil children due to preventable and curable diseases in the localities. Through counseling, we will strengthen healthy habits, preventing the main infectious diseases and malnutrition, improving their level of development.