Growing up healthy

Ensuring children’s survival, protection and healthy development

Health care programmes continued to be one of Plan’s priorities in Indonesia. Here, five out of every 100 children don’t reach the age of five and 40 per cent of children suffer from stunted growth due to poor nutrition.

As a result, Plan has been working with villages to raise awareness about the causes of infant mortality and illness. This has been achieved through workshops and training sessions involving community health workers and volunteers.  Topics covered include the importance of immunisation and the benefits of good nutrition and a clean environment.

Other projects in this area include:

• Plan helped establish 41 health clinics in 13 villages
• In collaboration with Indonesia’s health department, more than 2,800 children were immunised
• Nearly 2,200 malnourished young children received supplementary food