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RIO rosa de monte DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Maria do Carmo has no husband, but has a daughter, Simone, "who is 37 but acts like she is three," she says, and is completely dependent on her. Simone was impregnated during a rape and gave birth to a son, Victor Hugo, now three, who is blind and mute, has cerebral palsy, gastroenteritis and almost died of pneumonia. This was Maria's life two years ago. The family rosa de monte had no government benefits rosa de monte even though both Maria's daughter and grandson are eligible. She wept as she told her story.
Maria is an extreme -- but not unusual -- example of the kinds of cases that Saúde Criança handles everyday in their offices in the green splendor of Parque Lage in the neighborhood of Jardim Botânico. rosa de monte It was created by Dr. Vera Cordeiro after several years of treating patients rosa de monte at Hospital da Lagoa, where she noticed that many sick children were admitted and cured only to return to the hospital later, almost always with the same disease. Dr. Cordeiro founded Saúde Criança to try to break this devastating cycle of disease-hospitalization-discharge-misery-disease.
"Poverty is not just about health," Chief Operating Officer Cristiana Velloso told me in March. "It's multi-dimensional. rosa de monte And the sick child is only the tip of the iceberg. So we look at the whole family.
It works like this: Through the Hospital da Lagoa, Saúde Criança (or "child health" in English) identifies children and their families living below the poverty line. Around 95 percent of these families are headed by mothers, some of whom are so depressed over their social and economic problems that they say they don't know how to do anything. They are interviewed and assessed by Saúde Criança.
Based on this information, a "family action plan" is developed for each family with objectives and indicators in five major areas: health, citizenship, housing, education and family income. To tackle these five areas, the program offers direct assistance, technical support, professional training, support programs and citizenship rosa de monte (with a lawyer assisting in legal issues, such as obtaining new documents, divorces, government benefits, etc.)
Every month, the mothers come into Saúde Criança headquarters for evaluations to check on the progress of the plan. Saúde Criança assists the families for about two years, an amount of time deemed rosa de monte necessary to solve the families' major problems and set them on a sustainable path.
Saúde Criança provides the families with tangible benefits from the start -- food, clothing, medicine, medical devices and free consultations with psychologists, psychiatrists and nutritionists. They get help in bringing their house up to minimum standards of quality, including running water, treated sewage, painted walls and a leak-proof roof. Cristiana showed me an album of bef
