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• Sovann Phoum Organization, Cambodia
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• Save the Children (UK), Malawi
• PROINAPSA-UIS, Colombia
• Salvation Army Primary Health Care Centre, Haiti
• Lufwanyama District Child-to-Child Programmes, Zambia
• Hatemalo Sanchar, Nepal

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The Tanzania National School Health Programme has reproduced the Child-to-Child Trust's book Health Promotion in Our Schools. The Tanzanian version is in English and contains most of the original text. The illustrations have been modified to make them more appropriate for African settings.

The Programme has printed and distributed the book to over 500 school health coordinators and government authorities at district, regional and national levels within Tanzania.

For further information, please contact:

Dr Ursuline Nyandindi
Programme Manager
National School Health Programme
Ministry of Health
PO Box 9083
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania

Tel/Fax: +255 022 215038

E-mail: nshp@twiga.com 

Part 2 of the Child-to-Child Resource Book, which contains the activity sheets, has been translated and printed in Russian by Save the Children UK's Kyrgyzstan Programme. The activity sheets are being used as training materials for Save the Children's local partners.

For further information, please contact:

Raya Ushurova
Project Officer on Social Services
Save the Children (UK) Kyrgyzstan Programme
27 Logvinenko Street
Bishkek 720040
Kyrgyz Republic

Tel: +966 312 664839/664744

Fax: +966 312 664475

E-mail: raya@scuk.kg 

Helping Children Who Are Blind, one of six volumes in the Early Assistance Series for Children with Disabilities published by the California-based Hesperian Foundation, is an attractive book which aims to engage family and community in supportive activities for children with vision problems. The book is aimed not only at parents, but also at caregivers, teachers, health workers, rehabilitation workers and others who wish to help children with different degrees of visual impairment develop all of their capabilities and to grow up to be active and productive community members. In aiming Helping Children Who Are Blind at community-based professionals, the book hopes to make blindness a community issue, thereby removing some of the burden often borne by parents or single carers alone. The book also introduces activities which aim to help communities begin to eliminate the causes of blindness, especially by drawing readers' attention to factors such as nutritional deficiency, crowded living conditions, waste disposal and the misuse of traditional medicines.

The introductory sections of the book explain how it can help those who care for visually-impaired children, what kinds of activities the carer can start with, how activities can be integrated with the daily life of the school or family, how activities can be adapted to suit the child, family or community, as well as how to ensure that children are given the time and support necessary to fully benefit from the activities. Towards this latter end, the importance of carers trying out the activities themselves beforehand is also stressed. Subsequent chapters in the book focus on areas such as communication, thinking skills, safety, movement, orientation, prevention of sexual abuse, preparation for school, as well as many others. Each chapter contains a small introductory section followed by many ideas for activities which help readers (and visually-impaired children) put the chapter's theme into practice. In addition, the book contains many useful black and white line drawings which help to illustrate the text and the activities suggested. Finally, the book contains two appendices (Child Development Charts and Toys You Can Make), as well a useful section on organizations and printed materials that provide further information about blindness and young children. Helping Children Who Are Blind is a very worthwhile addition to the Early Assistance Series for Children with Disabilities and both the authors and the Hesperian Foundation is to be congratulated on its achievement.

Helping Children Who Are Blind: Family and Community Support for Children with Vision Problems

September 2000, 200pp, illustrated

Authors: Sandy Niemann & Namita Jacob

Publisher: Hesperian Foundation
1919 Addison Street
Suite 304, Berkeley, CA 94704
USA

Tel: +01 510 845 4507

Fax: +01 510 845 0539

Email: bookorders@hesperian .org 

Web: www.hesperian.org 

ISBN: 0-942364-34-1

Price: $12.00 plus postage and handling

Ted Lankester's Setting up Community Health Programmes, jointly published by MacMillan, Teaching Aids at Low Cost and Tear Fund, is now into its second edition, having been revised in the light of current information and good practice. To ensure that information in the book is fully up-to-date, the subject-specific content, e.g., on malaria, safe motherhood, immunization etc, has been included utilizing the latest guidelines from the World Health Organization. As was the case with the first edition, however, the fundamental aim of the book is to serve as a comprehensive though simple-to-use manual for health workers, including field staff, nurses, doctors and programme managers. Students, administrators and planners involved in setting up this kind of programme will also find much to interest them in this useful book.

The book is divided into four main sections: basic principles, starting a programme, specific programmes and appropriate management. The first section defines community-based health care, showing how it is different from standard medical care, how it may be integrated with other health care systems and how such programmes can help to deal with poverty, the root cause of ill-heath. This section also contains important chapters which firstly, stress the pivotal role of partnership approaches to community health programmes and secondly, show how health awareness can be developed amongst community members as a prelude to programme implementation. The second section of the book, starting a programme, deals with the logistics of community health programme development, the use of rapid appraisal as a tool for `getting to know' the community, community survey, diagnosis and planning, and the nature, roles, selection and training of the community health worker. Section three starts with a discussion of the crucial issues involved in setting up a community health clinic, e.g., types of clinic, the nature and size of the target population, location and systems for record keeping, payments etc. The remainder of this section contains chapters which focus on the setting up of content-specific programmes, e.g., those based on nutrition, immunization, diarrhoea, maternal health and family planning. Each chapter provides useful information on what programme organizers and community need to know and what they can do about the health issues which affect them. The fourth and final section of Setting Up Community Health Programmes concerns itself with the management of such programmes, and how factors as varied as correct use of medicines, monitoring and evaluation, personnel, finance, cooperation and sustainability impact on the role of managers. The final chapter in this section looks at the problem of AIDS and how a community development approach can be used to combat its influence.

Setting Up Community Health Programmes also contains seven appendices, an index and a list of commonly used abbreviations. The second edition of this book, like the first, will prove to be a useful tool for those interested in setting up sustainable and focused community health programmes in developing countries.

Setting Up Community Health Programmes: A Practical Manual for Use in Developing Countries

Second edition, 2000, 334pp, illustrated.

Author: Ted Lankester

Available from: Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC)
PO Box 49, St Albans, Herts, AL1 5TX, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 1727 853869

Fax: +44 (0) 1727 846852

Email: talc@talcuk.org 

Web: www.talcuk.org 

ISBN: 0-333-67933-4

Price: £7.95 plus postage and packing