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Donate Now ↑Who Is MotMot?Across Central America, the MotMot represents freedom and liberty. We strive each day to give the children of Nicaragua the opportunity to achieve those ideals by providing for their most basic needs. If you feel called to help today, just look for MotMot and he'll show you the way!

LIFE-SAVING PROGRAMS

Providing food and health to fight malnutrition and undernourishment in children

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Health Platform

Life-saving programs to ensure that vulnerable children have an opportunity to reach their God-given potential by proactively addressing maternal and child health issues such as malnutrition and undernourishment. These programs prioritize pre and postnatal care; physical, psychological, emotional, and cognitive development; nutrition; food safety and sanitation and access to preventative services.

Nourish, formerly ORPHANetwork, SUPPORTS WOMEN AND INFANTS THROUGH VITAL HUMANITARIAN AID

The Healthy Beginnings Program addresses the critical time in child development from conception to two years old by focusing on:

  • Women are healthy before becoming pregnant – free of anemia and malnutrition.
  • Babies are born at healthy birthweight – ensuring women are receiving prenatal care and prenatal vitamins.
  • Infant growth and development.
  • Encourage breastfeeding to age two.
  • Early Childhood Stimulation – provides parental training focused on physical, cognitive, social and emotional growth.

    Nutrition, Health and Hygiene Programs:

    • Provide 500 calorie nutritious meal 5 days/week to children ages 1-12 at our partner local church feeding programs
    • Ensure that feeding program locations have clean water
    • Administer deworming and vitamin supplements to prevent malnutrition
    • Encourage receipt of age-specific preventive services and dental care at community health centers
    • Require compliance with the WHO food safety standards at the feeding programs
    • Conduct scheduled evaluations of all children ages 0-5 using WHO metics to identify acute or chronic malnutrition, and refer follow-up with Nourish’s Nutritional Recovery Program.

    THE NOURISH APPROACH TO ADDRESSING MALNUTRITION

    The Nutritional Recovery Program is a Registered Nurse (RN) managed initiative to address chronic and acute malnutrition, consisting of:

    • Bi-weekly RN home visits to oversee and measure progress (acute)
    • Supplemental feeding of high-calorie/high protein milkshakes, in conjunction with feeding program (acute)
    • Monthly RN home visit to oversee and monitor progress (chronic)
    • Supplemental feeding of cereal with milk in conjunction with feeding program (chronic)

    All malnourished children are provided:

    • Soy-fortified rice for their homes
    • Vitamin supplements as indicated
    • Referrals to health centers for complex cases or failure to progress

    DR. WINDY MASON-LESLIE: ANSWERING THE CALL TO HELP CHILDREN IN NICARAGUA

    Boarding a plane for her first church mission trip to Nicaragua, Dr. Windy had no idea how many lives she would help transform for years to come. When local families discovered she was a pediatric physician, they brought their children seeking her expertise.
    Witnessing firsthand the struggle of families to provide proper nutrition, Dr. Windy couldn’t leave these children to face starvation. She established a solution: a Nicaraguan medical director to oversee communities, evaluate medical needs, and measure outcomes—creating sustainable support for vulnerable children in Nicaragua that continues today.

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    You can invest in a community of children to provide nutritious meals, clean water, deworming pills and necessary vitamins too!