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The Road to Health: Children of Armenia Fund

The Road to Health: Children of Armenia Fund. Overview. Common health conditions in villages Intervention, Prevention, & Treatment Hopes for the future Miscellaneous. What is COAF?. COAF is a nonprofit organization

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The Road to Health: Children of Armenia Fund

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  1. The Road to Health:Children of Armenia Fund

  2. Overview • Common health conditions in villages • Intervention, Prevention, & Treatment • Hopes for the future • Miscellaneous

  3. What is COAF? • COAF is a nonprofit organization • Works with community members to lower poverty in villages, with a focus on children • Founded 2000: focus on education, health, social, and economic growth • Work in the ArmavirMarz (region) specifically in Baghramyan Region consisting of 15 rural communities with roughly 20,000 people

  4. My Experience with COAF • Worked in 5 COAF villages: Karakert, Dalarik, Lernagog, Miasnikyan, and Shenik • Helped with the English camps and designated COAF-Summer Camps for ages 6-17 • Created activities and presented to the children about dental/personal hygiene, nutrition, exercise, and anti-smoking

  5. Common Health Conditions • Dental Decay • Malnutrition • Water/Sanitation • Soil-transmitted helminths • Lice • Anemia • Risky Behaviors (i.e. smoking, alcohol) • Today we’re going to focus on 3 main conditions

  6. Malnutrition • What is malnutrition? • Adolescents have unhealthy habits that can be difficult to break • Availability of healthy foods in schools • “Culture” of food • Parental Influence

  7. Dental Decay • Common for all children, especially 6-9 year olds • Dental clinics (2 for 15 villages) • Sugar content of food • Access to water • Taboos of brushing teeth/Parental Influence

  8. Sanitation/Water • Run down schools, homes, stores • Running and functional toilets/sinks • Many of the villages do not have clean drinking water at home or in the schools • Water only certain times of the day to take showers, wash up or do laundry • No culture of bringing water from home to school-sometimes don’t drink all day at school

  9. Intervention, Prevention, & Treatment • COAF’s main goal is to find effective mechanisms to ensure sustainability of their health programs • Accessibility and affordability of health care • Work with many other organizations to help with the health care, home and work conditions, and much more

  10. Hopes for the Future • For the villages to be able to use these interventions and education that COAF and their supporting organizations have carried out to sustain their villages • Have the children use all their potential to do well for themselves, and give back to their homes and help it thrive

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