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Eleanor Crook Foundation and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Eleanor Crook Foundation - Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
PCI is grateful to the Eleanor Crook Foundation and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation for supporting two complementary research grants to address the high levels of stunting among children 0-18 months in Tanzania. More than one in three children between the ages of 0-59 months are stunted in Tanzania, with nine regions having a prevalence classified as extremely high. With a growing body of evidence pointing to the effect gender inequality has on achieving child nutritional outcomes, PCI saw an opportunity to engage with fathers to reduce stunting rates.
Through the Engaging Fathers for Effective Child Nutrition in Tanzania (EFFECT) study, PCI is innovatively engaging fathers as partners in behavior change and through their unique needs, preferences and roles-empowering them to be agents of change within their own households. The innovation of the father groups will enable EFFECT to address household power dynamics and decision-making about food choices, empower women to access more nutritious foods, change key household behaviors that impact nutrition, and contribute to a limited body of knowledge, particularly in East Africa, on the role of fathers in infant and young child feeding practices. In addition, the EFFECT Plus study promotes and supports the adoption of nurturing, responsive care between caregiver and child by focusing on stimulation, play, communication, more frequent expression of physical and emotional love, secure attachment, and the foundation to appropriately respond to a child's needs. EFFECT Plus will also target the enabling environment and the needs and well-being of the caregivers by fostering social support among group members, engaging male caregivers, encouraging joint household decision-making among partners, and linking caregivers and children to a range of health and other social services.
Sabin Children's Foundation
Sabin Children's Foundation
Created by Valerie and Gary Sabin to address the medical needs of children around the world, the Sabin Children's Foundation (SCF) has supported PCI for more than three decades, targeting their generosity wherever the need has been greatest. They've helped us improve care for orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia; provided life-saving supplies for premature babies and their moms in Malawi; and funded water, sanitation and hygiene work in El Salvador. In Cochabamba, Bolivia, one of the poorest regions in the country, SCF constructed the first health clinic in the region to provide critical medical and dental care for vulnerable local families, with special care for children and expectant mothers. The clinic was built in honor of the Sabin's son, Justin, who passed away from cystic fibrosis in 1998 at the age of 19.
For the last several years, SCF has championed PCI's Children's Home in India, enabling us to provide a safe and caring environment, essential life skills and access to formal education for boys with no one else to care for them. While their impact on PCI has been invaluable, their generosity does not end with us. Since 1993, the SCF has helped more than half a million children in Africa, Asia and the Americas by supporting organizations like PCI that are dedicated to ensuring every child has the chance to grow up healthy. We are honored to help them accomplish that very worthwhile mission.
Sandra Driver Gordon
Sandra Driver Gordon
Sandra Driver Gordon has been a friend of PCI since 1964, when she and her family visited our founder, Dr. James Turpin, on PCI's floating clinic in Hong Kong Harbor. Sandy's parents, Freddie and Bob Driver, helped PCI get off the ground in its early days, and Sandy and her siblings have supported us ever since.
Sandy has the fiercest heart of just about anyone we know. She spent 20 years on the Los Angeles Commission on Disabilities, advocating to ensure that differently abled people have the tools, support and resources to meet their needs. In 1983, Sandy started the first Jewish Camp Program on the West Coast for children with special needs. Two years later, she founded Independence Center, a transitional residential program in Los Angeles where young adults with special needs can practice the functional and social skills they need to start living independently.
Last year, Sandy saw a need to train PCI's Community Health Workers to help families they work with in our California Healthy Start program who might need additional support for children with special needs. She funded and helped PCI design a program to fit that need, providing home-based education and care coordination. We are extremely proud of Sandy's initiative to include people with special needs in our community health work, and we are so grateful to have that fierce heart advocating for PCI.
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