Health and Integrated Nurturing Care
Using trusted community structures as entry points for growth monitoring, nutrition assessment, disability screening and referral to health and protection services.
The challenge
Refugee and host-community families often live far from reliable health services, and community-based entry points for early detection (growth faltering, disability, maternal distress) are inconsistent. Problems that could be caught early are often caught late, or not at all.
Kupanda’s approach
Rather than running parallel clinics, Kupanda embeds health and nutrition support inside the community structures families already trust and use daily: childcare centres, schools, churches and community halls, and builds referral pathways from those points into formal services.
Interventions
- Growth monitoring and nutrition assessment within community and childcare settings
- Disability screening and referral
- Immunisation referral and tracking
- Mental health and maternal support
- Referral pathways to child protection, health and social services
Field noteThe change soughtCaregivers and children reached earlier by health, nutrition and protection support, through entry points they already trust, with fewer children falling through gaps between sectors.