HIAM Health (Hamutuk ita ajuda malu)
Ai-Meti Laran
Dili
Timor-Leste
Persona de contacto: Rosaria Martins da Cruz, Gregorio Ximenes
+670 331 0266; +670 77251506
gregorio.ximenes@hiamhealth.org
rosaria.m-cruz@hiamhealth.org
https://www.hiamhealth.org/
https://www.facebook.com/hiamhealth/
Áreas temáticas
- Organización de apoyo
- Política / Proyecto de educación
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Noticias
Who we are is right there in our name: Hamutuk Ita Ajuda Malu. In English, it means “Together we help each other” and that’s at the very core of our approach.
As a Timorese-led organisation finding practical local solutions to local challenges, we know community empowerment is the key to overcoming even seemingly insuperable problems.
By providing a combination of education, equipment and advocacy, we believe the communities we work with have the ability to lift themselves up. This is just common sense – no solution will be sustainable unless those directly involved feel a sense of ownership.
Our logo underscores this. In Timorese culture, two hands with the palms up signifies “My hands are free and ready to serve you.”
WHERE WE CAME FROM
where we came from
HIAM Health was founded in 2003 in humble circumstances but with the ambitious goal of reversing the blight of child malnutrition in Timor Leste.
What started in a borrowed room at the national hospital in 200
Sobre nosotros
HIAM Health was founded in 2003 in humble circumstances but with the ambitious goal of reversing the blight of child malnutrition in Timor Leste.
Hamutuk Ita Ajuda Malu. In English, it means “Together we help each other” and that’s at the very core of our approach. As a Timorese-led organisation finding practical local solutions to local challenges, we know community empowerment is the key to overcoming even seemingly insuperable problems. By providing a combination of education, equipment and advocacy, we believe the communities we work with have the ability to lift themselves up. This is just common sense – no solution will be sustainable unless those directly involved feel a sense of ownership.
From a humble beginning working directly with a handful of mothers to nurse their malnourished children back to vitality, HIAM Health has grown into a far-reaching organisation with supporters across the globe.
But one thing has never changed and never will: community empowerment is the driving force behind everything we do.
We believe that providing the people of Timor Leste with knowledge, equipment and support to address their challenges is not just the key to progress but also to creating the sense of ownership that is essential for solutions to be sustainable.
Activities:
• Malnutrition Rehabilitation and Education Centre in Dili, opened in 2010: While the children were nursed back to health, their caregivers were educated about nutrition and childcare, such as how to provide a balanced diet through creating home kitchen gardens.
• Nutrition-Sensitive-Agriculture (NSA): HIAM Health’s nutrition-sensitive agriculture project is an attempt to address Timor Leste’s stubbornly high rates of child malnutrition through empowering farmers and families with better knowledge and improved farming methods. The core of the strategy is to have agricultural extension workers based in municipalities to improve small-scale farmers’ knowledge and to provide access to the best varieties of high- nutrition vegetables for their growing conditions.
• TVET training: Ensuring the next generation of Timorese learn about agriculture and horticulture will not just give them a head start in their careers but will also play a key role in the nation growing enough nutritious food. HIAM Health’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programme is a hands-on course based at its training centre in Dili. At the end of six months, its students will have new career opportunities, including going overseas as seasonal workers.
• The superfood Moringa: For a tree that grows like a weed in Timor Leste, the Moringa has the potential to play a key role in reducing the rate of childhood malnutrition – and that’s just what HIAM Health is attempting to do by pioneering the its harvesting, processing and promotion. Laboratory tests of our Moringa has confirmed the promise of local varieties of the trees, supporting research overseas that showed that young women who ate Moringa had heavier babies and their children gained weight faster and were healthier.
• Fostering agricultural markets: Imagine having fresh nutritious food delivered right to your door from the farm where it was grown. Imagine well-trained farmers being able to sell their surplus crops to improve the lives of their families. And imagine the ultimate result: a country that is one step closer to being able to produce all its own healthy food. That’s the goal of HIAM Health’s To’os Nain Liga Merkadu (Farmer’s link to market) project.
Rosaria Martins da Cruz is the Director of HIAM Health.
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