ASOME seeks to improve the health and care conditions of mothers, new-borns and children by strengthening health systems, with access to primary health care as a focal point.
We act in favour of mothers in precarious situations in the pre and post natal period and their young children from 0 to 7 years old. The care of these mothers and their children is essential to reduce the risk of complications and maternal and infant mortality.
To improve maternal and child health, ASOME is committed at several levels: training of midwives, nurses and community health workers, prevention and treatment of malaria, vaccination campaign, awareness of sexual health and reproductive health, family planning activities, pre and post-natal monitoring of pregnant women, prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
- Awareness campaigns
In its projects related to maternal and child health, A.S.O.M.E initiates courses on maternal and new-born health for pregnant women and their families.
- They learn to take better care of themselves and their babies during pregnancy and after childbirth.
- We explain to them, for example, the importance of eating well throughout pregnancy
- do several checks to keep them and their baby healthy.
Thanks to the recognized expertise of our health specialists, our NGO is thus able to transmit knowledge that will help provide long-term assistance. Parents receive training in counselling and awareness in order to better assess the health problems of the population and thus better treat them.
- Vaccination campaigns
The World Health Organization estimates that immunizations prevent 2-3 million deaths per year. Unvaccinated children are the most vulnerable to these diseases which each year kill, handicap or irreparably disables millions of children, who often suffer and are socially excluded and stigmatized for the rest of their lives. Improving immunization activities has a major and positive impact on this situation.
- Well-being and quality of life
Well-being is a notion specific to the individual, resulting from one’s behaviour, one’s social relations, the adequacy between the image one personally has and a certain ideal, as well as by the management of possible harm to one’s health and its consequences.
If it is the individual’s life experience that it is about, it is built up against society and its standards.
ASOME seeks to promote, in particular at the level of municipalities and neighbourhoods, a broader approach to quality of life, well-being and health through community participation.
For many families, the question is not to live, but to survive.
Every child has the right to grow and thrive in a healthy environment and to have access to quality care.
D. Family planning
Family planning is necessary for successful spacing of home births. This means of limiting couple births is necessary to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
From a health standpoint, family planning helps reduce maternal mortality and prevent unwanted pregnancies, many of which end in unsafe abortions.
On the demographic level, Family Planning makes it possible to control the rate of demographic growth and the population’s essential needs, in particular in terms of health, education, employment and environmental resources.