Child Health Initiatives
Shoulder to Shoulder has many "Brigades" to Intibuca, Honduras. Thanks to support from the Dorothy Ross Hass Foundation, we are able to provide needed and continous care to thousands of children. Rather than the "bandaide" type brigades so common in the third world, we provide ongoing, preventitive outreach care to children that otherwise would be ignored. We travel to the schools and remote areas and provide repeditive deworming, nutritional evaluations, eye exams, Vit A and fluoride dental varish adminstrations to each child in the catchment area 3 times per year. Below are documents used by our staff.
Child Health Intitiative Discussion (pdf)
Children's Health Initiative Data Collection (doc)
Child Health Data Collection Sheet (xls)
Efficacy of Antihelminth Drugs- JAMA (pdf)
Brigade Preparation Worksheet Esp Eng (doc)
Team Leader Worksheet Esp Eng (doc)
Team Leader Worksheet Staff Esp Eng (doc)
Team Leader DAILY Worksheet (doc)
Labels for Brigades
Label file for acetaminophen (doc)
Label General with Pictures (doc)
How You Can Help
Honduras has no safety net for poor families in crisis. Every day our field workers encounter single mothers, people with disabilities and families living in extreme poverty whose very survival is at risk. Shoulder to Shoulder's trained professionals respond to these needs with wisdom and compassion using a fund for discretionary assistance to provide varied assistance on a case-by-case basis. Some forms of assistance include milk and food for sick and malnourished children as well as transportation and healthcare costs for severe medical cases. YOU can keep a family from falling into the abyss of survival crisis with a donation of $100-$200.
