COMPLIANCE WITH AGREEMENTS IN HEALTH, SANITATION AND SUPPORT IN FUNERALS UNDER THE SUMAQKAWSAY (LIVE BETTER) PROGRAM

Number of beneficiaries

524 families from Nueva Fuerabamba.

Investment

3.840.236,60

Project execution period

2011 - 2015.

OBJECTIVE

Ensure people from Nueva Fuerabamba have access to basic health, water and sewerage services, and provide assistance for funerals.

DESCRIPTION

We carried out various activities such as:

  • Comprehensive community health program
  • Community health campaigns
  • Special in-home care program for the elderly
  • Sexuality education and family planning program
  • Travelling with patients that require medical care when they are referred to other hospitals in Cusco, Arequipa or Lima
  • Healthy house program
  • Internship to exchange experiences in housing, health and community surveillance
  • Strengthening of healthy rural houses (Nueva Fuerabamba)
  • Program for health and community surveillance promoters
  • Capacity building for health promoters (community educators)
  • Maternal and child health program
  • Postnatal visits and care
  • Program to prevent diseases transmitted by animals
  • Environmental education program for the Nueva Fuerabamba School (pre-, primary and secondary education) and the community