Rural Health Care Initiative

What we do

Rural Health Care Initiative as a local non-governmental organization operate on dual folds in the chiefdom (i) Health Basis (ii) Agricultural basis.

(i) Health basis: under health our organization as cooperate responsibility performs the following function w

• We provide health/medical services and support both community health centres (C.H.C) and maternal child Health Posts (M.C.H.P).
• We provide free outreach services to the surrounding villages/communities in the chiefdom
• We provide peanuts and beni-mix to help control/minimize malnutrition through community health post and maternal child Health post.
• We have also built in the chiefdom, birth waiting home, wherein a pregnant woman who resides in areas that are not easily accessible will be taken to await delivery.

These entire ventures are to help improve the health status of children, pregnant women under five, and lactating mothers in the chiefdom.

(ii) Agricultural basis: our organization has improved agriculture in the chiefdom through the following:

• We support farmer based organization (F.B.Os) through agricultural Business Centre (A.B.C) established by Government of S/Leone in 2010.
• We provide seeds to farmers who are members of (F.B.Os) in the chiefdom
• We also provide incentives to farmers who are members of F.B.O
• We also help farmers to register their organization with A.B.C i.e. Agriculture Business Centre

Our role in the pluralistic extensional advisory services system in Sierra Leone.

Our organization plays a role in the pluralistic extension and advisory services system in Sierra Leone by helping farmers through Agricultural Business Centre (A.B.C) by:

• We provides seeds
• Provide training for farmers how to go about their farming system
• Incentives
• Help farmers of their registration of their F.B.Os in the (A.B.C)

Gender

Our committals as an organization is gender sensitive. Althony children and women and leading. That is to say more children and women are in Tikonko.

In the case of patient/clients male and female equal treatment are given.

Nutrition

Our organization contribute in improving nutrition especially the southern part of Sierra Leone particularly Tikonko chiefdom. It is a mandate organization to improve nutrition.

Our organization goes about it through farming by providing food that are nutrition to malnourish children. We also provide nutrition food to the people of Tikonko chiefdom through the support we give to the F.B.Os. We buy from the F.B.O some nutrition foods like peanut, rice, Beans Maize etc. And supply it to the community Health Centre (C.H.C) and maternal child health post (M.C.H.P) to supply it to malnourish children.