Working towards health and hope for all
AMOS Health and Hope APDO Postal 5051, Managua, Nicaragua
Nicaragua Phone: 011.505.2271.2933 US Internet Phone 240.575.5625
AMOS Health and Hope
AMOS programs seek to respond to community identified needs and build upon community strengths.
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•We start by partnering with rural communities to identify their felt needs and build upon their community strengths.
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•In each community, we train local health promoters who serve their communities to prevent disease and provide health care.
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•To ensure quality health care, our team of public health nurses and physicians supervises and monitors the work of the health promoters in their communities.
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•We foster holistic development by coordinating with local communities, churches, governments, and non-governmental organizations to support health, education, clean water, improved sanitation and job creation.
Children who are healthier learn better. AMOS works with students in rural schools, their teachers, and their parents to promote healthy habits and provide school-based health care to improve the health of children.
AMOS helps provide medications to treat children suffering from parasite infections (also known as worms) that cause malnutrition and poor growth. We also work to prevent worm re-infection through health educations, chlorination of water, and improved sanitation programs.
AMOS helps people living in extreme poverty with medicines, emergency transport, clinic visits or lab tests that they otherwise could not afford. We also help local hospitals care for patients with HIV/AIDS.
AMOS accompanies and supports the victims of disaster by providing food, medicines, and personal hygiene kits.
In rural Nicaragua, children often suffer from preventable disease. AMOS helps prevent death and disease by equipping communities with the tools they need to reach out to their most vulnerable neighbors through the model of Primary Health Care.
We train and accompany local volunteers to carry out activities that improve community health.
We provide opportunities for churches, groups and individuals to serve and learn alongside the people of Nicaragua by helping with community projects such as building schools, clinics or latrines.
