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All of us use questions in our daily lives. Frequently the kind of questions we ask may make important differences to the information we can gather. Asking the wrong kind of questions will limit the information discovered.
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by Ann Ashworth. Good food is important for good health. Children who are well fed during the first two years of life are more likely to stay healthy for the rest of their childhood. During the first six months of a child’s life, breast milk alone is the ideal food. It contains all the nutrients needed for healthy growth as well as immune factors that protect against common childhood infections.
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by Ann Burgess. The amount children eat depends on the food they are offered, their appetite and how their mothers or other carers feed them
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by Ann Ashworth. The HIV virus can be passed from an HIV-infected mother to her baby. This is called mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). It can occur during pregnancy, labour and delivery, and through breast-feeding. Antiretroviral drugs such as Nevirapine reduce the risk of MTCT.
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by Ian Horne. Small food gardens near the family home have traditionally made an important contribution to family nutrition. Home gardens can help provide variety in the diet and supply vital vitamins and minerals, carbohydrates and proteins. Good nutrition helps the body to resist disease, so home gardens help improve family health.
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by Mark Forshaw. Chikankata Hospital Care and Prevention Teams As the HIV/AIDS epidemic in southern Zambia began to grow, the response of Chikankata hospital was to set aside hospital wards for AIDS patients and to provide out-patient services linked to a home-based care programme. These services linked communities and community health workers to the hospital services as well as to counselling and education. However, it soon became clear that there were just too many ...
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by Isabel Carter. 'Dream dreams about how you would like your community to look in two years, ten years, or even 30 years time. Close your eyes and imagine how it would look, what sounds there would be, what people would be doing.' This is what the members of the Masai church in the remote village at Olendeem, S W Kenya, were encouraged to do back in October 2000.
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by James Harvey. Christian values and thoughts are desperately needed within development work and should run like a thread through the whole process of our work. Our lives tell a story. Christians have been described as the 67th book of the Bible. People read our lives, our words and our actions and draw conclusions about our faith from them. The way we live our lives declares whom we love and on whom we depend. We are all witnessing all the time.
Resource Type: Bible studies
Dealing with the whole person Jesus gave us some clear guidelines for our work and he always emphasised the importance of meeting the needs of the whole person - not just people's spiritual needs. However, many churches ignore his guidance and concentrate only on spiritual needs
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by Ian and Jenny Hall. The work of JEMED (Youth With A Mission) in Abalak, Niger, uses a holistic approach to development. It demonstrates the Christian faith by helping to meet the physical, social and spiritual needs of the community.
