{"id":4676,"date":"2011-08-15T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T08:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2011-08-15T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T08:34:27","slug":"sinkhani-from-mzimba-healthed-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/15\/sinkhani-from-mzimba-healthed-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhani from Mzimba | HealthEd Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4677\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2011-06-Malawi_6810-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4677\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4677\" title=\"2011 06 Malawi_6810-e\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2011-06-Malawi_6810-e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Mzimba, Pic Cortesy of http:\/\/healthedconnect.blogspot.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8216;headquarters&#8217; for Sinkhani activities in Malawi is in the little town of Mzimba.\u00a0 Ireen, the Sinkhani supervisor, lives in Mzimba and recently sent us this report.<\/p>\n<p>The Sinkhani have been working with\u00a0four very poor families who live in little houses made of mud bricks with thatched grass roofs.\u00a0\u00a0Two\u00a0of the families have both parents living but in one case both parents are HIV positive. Another family has a mother trying to raise her children alone, another\u00a0has very old grandparents raising their grandchildren.\u00a0 Altogether these families have 20 people (7 adults and 13 children ages 3 to 14).<\/p>\n<p>The Sinkhani, along with the government health workers,\u00a0have worked individually with the four families.\u00a0 The Sinkhani were especially helpful in convincing the caregivers\u00a0to go to the hospital with three of the children since &#8220;they were in danger.&#8221;\u00a0 A fourteen-year-old boy, Patric,\u00a0had a continuous cough and two of the children, Emmie and Jamira,\u00a0had kwashiorkor (severe malnutrition).\u00a0 One child, Mphatso, had a sore the Sinkhani were able to heal.\u00a0 All of the seriously ill children are now\u00a0out of the hospital\u00a0and doing well since the Sinkhani have been able to teach the families better health practices.\u00a0 The Sinkhani report the families &#8220;are very thankful to the teachings\u00a0we [Sinkhani] have received and now we are helping many in our communities.\u00a0 Very, very, very helpful HealthEd Connect!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;headquarters&#8217; for Sinkhani activities in Malawi is in the little town of Mzimba.\u00a0 Ireen, the Sinkhani supervisor, lives in Mzimba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[349,1076,529,1077],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","tag-aids","tag-healthed-connect","tag-hiv","tag-mzimba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}