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Programmes

We Create and implement prevention-based policies that are targeted to disadvantaged groups in order to secure a better living place to help all to grow in a balanced mental and physical condition. In Bangladesh and The UK we are running the following projects,

Newham Support Project

Newham Support is Painted Children's first UK project and will be working with Newham Disabled Children and Young People Team in London. This project is fabulous in the fact that it has benefits for two groups of disadvantaged people, firstly young people with disabilities who will benefit from new friendships and support in the community and secondly the young people who volunteer to support these disabled youngsters who will benefit through experience and training provided to them.

The objective of this project is to provide support for young people in the community ensuring that they learn the life and social skills needed for their transition from children's services to adult services to be as smooth as possible and to ensure that they can live an independent and successful life. In addition to this the volunteers who support these young people will receive accredited training for which they will receive certificates and which will help towards a related NVQ/QCF increasing their employment opportunities greatly.

Currently this project is provided in Newham, London, we aim to expand the project to other areas over the next few years. Currently we are discussing the opportunity of providing the service in Hackney and hope over the next 18 months to expand to Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest too.

If you would like to help or volunteer, or would just like to find out more about this project please phone our office or contact us through the contact page, we would love to tell you about it.

Ensuring the Safety and Good Health of Motherhood

Every hour in Bangladesh three women die from problems related to the bearing of children. We have now signed up many mothers to our Safe motherhood programme and are delivering the projects in four areas of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

Our aim is to ensure their safety and good health so that all babies will be born over the weight of 2.5KG's, beginning their lives strong and healthy. Women from the poorest communities tend to neglect their nutritional intake, concentrating on there children and partners. We will make sure that they are all provided with the correct sustenance, vitamins and minerals through their pregnancy and into motherhood ensuring that both mother and child remain strong and healthy, and that neither will suffer from malnutrition and related illnesses. The women are supported through the minimum of 4 antenatal checkups through their pregnancy (recommended minimum) and vaccinations will also be provided, such as Tetanus.

We care for the mothers throughout childbirth with the support of a qualified birthing attendant. If any complications do arise during childbirth, we have arrangements with local clinics and medical centres. We will transfer the woman appropriately so that she will receive the best care possible.

Lastly we supply the mothers with continuous counselling and education to make sure that pregnancies are sensibly spaced at least two years apart and unwanted pregnancy is avoided, particularly for those women under the age of 20 and over the age of 30, along with valuable health and child development education.

The care and treatment of disabled children and adults

We give care to as many disabled people and those suffering ill health from the poorest communities as we can, as these individuals are often a burden to their families and the community, and may be ostracised and excluded. They have major difficulties in taking care of themselves as the vast majority of employers will not consider those with disabilities, even for the lowest paid jobs. Also most of the schools in Bangladesh will not allow disabled children into the system, so they remain uneducated, and left to survive by their wits. Hospitals of the area aren't interested in giving treatment as these people do not generally have the means to pay and are thought of as a burden on the community.

Each year we carry out an appeal throughout Ramadan which raises money to pay for treatment for those who most need it. Last year we signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Painted Children with a world renowned surgeon who performed cleft palate surgery, among other essential operations, on those children in need. This was very exciting for Painted Children and many children received the help they so needed.

Many births which result in disability are understood to be a curse from God; as a result it is a sad fact that many children with disabilities are killed shortly after birth, so as not to bring bad luck. We aim to educate communities that this is not the fact, and that having a disability does not have to mean burden and exclusion. There are often treatments that can result in the person leading a perfectly normal life. When treatment is not an option the right care can often lead to the individual leading a relatively independent life. We often have visiting doctors sign up with the charity to offer their time and experience delivering the treatment in which they are expert, this kindness is often life changing to the people who benefit. This appeal is ongoing and help you can give is most valuable and will help tremendously.

Floating Hospital for Urgent Service Delivery in the most Isolated Regions of Bangladesh

We are now raising money to create a floating surgery which will be able to reach the poorest and most inaccessible communities in Bangladesh. The people living in these communities are not only over looked in health care and education because of their lack of wealth, but also because they live in very remote and hard to reach places. We will deliver basic primary treatments and operations needed by those who can not afford to pay them. Post operative care will also be given, by the highest trained specialists.

Painted Children has now completed the construction of the shell of the ship. We are currently raising funds to fit out the inside at which time Aid 2 Hospitals are very kindly donating the medical equipment needed to launch the project. Our floating hospital will be the third in operation in Bangladesh. It will be in full time use, covering the whole of the country, and will help in the attainment of certain of the millennium development goals. This means that we will reach thousands of people who are so often forgotten because of the difficulties that occur in reaching them through the remoteness of their communities, or their lack of transport or resources.

The ship has six rooms for medical use. The rooms will include an operating theatre, dispensary, post operative care room and a treatment room, as well as a room for the doctor of course. We will be continuing our other projects on the ship, for instance the safe motherhood project and treatment for disabled children and adults. We will also be educating these communities, regarding health care issues, and supplying safe water and nutrition on our travels.

We are still raising funds to complete the construction of the ship and hope within six months we will be on the road, or the river! Any help that you could offer will go a long way in the completion of this project. The sooner the ship is ready, the sooner we can get to these people, usually over looked.

If you would like to donate please click on the tab, or alternatively ring 0208 534 5113 and speak with one of our fundraising team. Please remember 'Together we can Change'

Beside this we are also running the following programs/campaigns

• Vitamin-A Plus Campaign
• Nutrition program
• Campaign to reduce the high neonatal mortality
• Vaccination programme among children and pregnant women
• Advocacy for children
• Awareness program for accident and injury-related deaths
• Birth registration campaign