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GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS REACHING CHILDREN S POTENTIAL PROGRAM PROGRAM COMPONENTS Based on a 30 year partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania and at the invitation of Tanzania president Jakaya Kikwete Global Volunteers agreed to help address Tanzania s significant stunting problem by applying the lessons learned from the St Lucia pilot The Tanzania Reaching Children s Program started in July 2017 Understanding the relationship between cognitive development nutrition and health Global Volunteers engaged short term volunteers to implement Reaching Children s Potential Program by providing household container gardens to mothers conducting parent workshops to improve parenting skills and facilitating a mothers club Projects Maternal Child Health Clinic Operations The Ipalamwa General Health Clinic serves nine communities in the Ukwega Mlafu and Kising a wards in Kilolo district Focus of care includes children s and women s health and wellness and general and preventative medicine Nutrition Program Two prepackaged nutritious meals and micronutrient supplements are provided daily to pregnant women mothers their babies and school age children To promote food self sufficiency ongoing nutrition education and food producing technologies and training are offered to all RCP families Parents Educational Workshops Volunteer professionals transfer health hygiene nutrition and child rearing knowledge to parents through interactive workshops focusing on the how to help families navigate and maximize the first 1 000 days The goal is to explain why certain behaviors and technologies are important for their young children and demonstrate ways to adopt and apply them Home Visits RCP staff and volunteer professionals conduct regular home visits to reinforce knowledge learned during workshops help with new household technologies and offer parents psychosocial support Life Enhancing Technologies Household handwashing stations container gardens fuel efficient vented cookstoves chicken coops bed nets and rainwater harvesting systems improve quality of life and help control infectious disease All RCP families currently have access to handwashing stations and many have container gardens As funding permits all other technologies will be added Women s Co ops Village cooperatives produce and market a variety of handmade and homegrown raised products promoting self sufficiency through commerce Global Volunteers supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 375 East Little Canada Road St Paul MN 55117 1628 USA 800 487 1074 toll free 651 482 0915 fax globalvolunteers org email globalvolunteers org GlobalVolunteers globalvolunteers globlvolunteers Global Volunteers St Paul MN USA 2020

GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS REACHING CHILDREN S POTENTIAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW AND SCOPE The Reaching Children s Potential Program is a child focused parent driven family centered and community led comprehensive approach that begins with pregnancy continues through the 18th birthday and focuses on the first 1 000 days This program offers parents the tools to deliver the 12 essential services prescribed by UN agencies in the Essential Package We organized these services into three major categories eradicating Hunger improving Health and enhancing Cognition Hunger and Health directly support Cognition Eradicate Hunger 1 School and Household Gardens 2 Child Nutrition 3 Micronutrient Supplementation 4 Improved Stoves Improve Health 5 Health Nutrition and Hygiene Education 6 Systematic Deworming 7 HIV and AIDS Education 8 Malaria and Dengue Fever Prevention Enhance Congnition 9 General Education 10 Promoting Girls Education 11 Potable Water and Sanitary Latrines 12 Psychosocial Support Eliminate stunting dramatically reduce poverty 375 East Little Canada Road St Paul MN 55117 1628 USA 800 487 1074 toll free 651 482 0915 fax globalvolunteers org email globalvolunteers org GlobalVolunteers globalvolunteers globlvolunteers Global Volunteers St Paul MN USA 2020

GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS REACHING CHILDREN S POTENTIAL PROGRAM REMARKABLE RESULTS 2019 37 30 70 2017 reduction 2017 20 20 20 Researchers from St John Fisher College pharmacy doctoral program Lull Dudla Cohan 2020 in process of publication reported these findings 2017 20 80 17 After the first two years of the RCP Program in Tanzania July 2017 through July 2019 children showed statistically significant reductions in stunting 30 Stunting decreased by seven percentage points from 37 4 to 30 in children enrolled in the RCP Program for at least 18 months This equates to a 20 reduction 2017 2019 2019 Of all children who were stunted when first enrolled in the RCP Program 62 were no longer stunted after 18 months Of all children who were severely stunted when they were first enrolled in the program 39 were not stunted after 18 months This is especially important because the severity of stunting normally increases substantially as children get older escalating in these villages from 23 at three months old to 62 at 24 months On average all children enrolled in the RCP 2019 Program for at least 18 months improved from 2017 being nearly severely stunted 2 62 SD to being not stunted 1 75 SD On average those children who were stunted at enrollment and were in the RCP Program for at least 18 months improved from being severely stunted 4 08 SD to being not stunted 1 86 SD RCP is changing lives and paving the path for village children to reach their full potential 375 East Little Canada Road St Paul MN 55117 1628 USA 800 487 1074 toll free 651 482 0915 fax globalvolunteers org email globalvolunteers org GlobalVolunteers globalvolunteers globlvolunteers Global Volunteers St Paul MN USA 2020

GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS REACHING CHILDREN S POTENTIAL PROGRAM REPLICABLE AND SCALABLE 37 reduction 2017 2019 30 70 2018 30 2017 20 20 20 2017 2019 20 80 17 After the first two years of the RCP Program in Tanzania July 2017 through July 2019 stunting decreased by seven percentage points from 37 4 to 30 in children enrolled in the RCP Program for at least 18 months This equates to a 20 reduction 2021 19 To scale the RCP Program requires substantial funding Startup costs for all the household technologies and building construction to serve 1 200 families approximately 10 villages totals about 3 8 million USD The annual cost is 1 2 million or 1 000 for each family of seven 375 East Little Canada Road St Paul MN 55117 1628 USA 800 487 1074 toll free 651 482 0915 fax globalvolunteers org email globalvolunteers org GlobalVolunteers globalvolunteers globlvolunteers Global Volunteers St Paul MN USA 2020