We would also have to achieve the nearly impossible task, as any school teacher might agree, of organizing hundreds of excited school kids into classrooms to not only measure their feet for their brand new cheap toms shoes, but to also measure their height and weight in order to screen them for malnutrition.Though we had been conducting TOMS distributions in schools for some time, the APZU team knew that adding malnutrition screenings to the distributions wouldn’t be easy. We would need to train our clinical teams on new protocols in malnutrition treatment, and we would have to find a way to do rapid malnutrition screening for kids over the age of 5, something that hasn’t often been done.
APZU plans to continue to monitor the distributions and screenings, and to make sure that the program is successful. We have thousands more kids to reach in the next couple of months, and hundreds more miles to cover to ensure that kids in Neno not only have dignity, but that they also have improved access to health.Earlier this month, our APZU team piloted our first TOMS Outlet Shoes health interventions at two schools and we reached nearly 1,000 kids. When I spoke with Blessings Banda, our HIV and Nutrition Program Manager last week, he was thrilled. We identified over 70 kids as needing malnutrition treatment, and referred them to the clinic for follow up care and malnutrition treatment.
We hope these tips are helpful! Good luck to all of our TOMS SHOES fans, customers, and community members who have entered Ticket to Give 2013. We are truly stoked to be taking fresh faces out in to the field to experience how we give, and we hope giving the power to the people allows us to select the advocates you think best represent the One for One movement.
APZU plans to continue to monitor the distributions and screenings, and to make sure that the program is successful. We have thousands more kids to reach in the next couple of months, and hundreds more miles to cover to ensure that kids in Neno not only have dignity, but that they also have improved access to health.Earlier this month, our APZU team piloted our first TOMS Outlet Shoes health interventions at two schools and we reached nearly 1,000 kids. When I spoke with Blessings Banda, our HIV and Nutrition Program Manager last week, he was thrilled. We identified over 70 kids as needing malnutrition treatment, and referred them to the clinic for follow up care and malnutrition treatment.
We hope these tips are helpful! Good luck to all of our TOMS SHOES fans, customers, and community members who have entered Ticket to Give 2013. We are truly stoked to be taking fresh faces out in to the field to experience how we give, and we hope giving the power to the people allows us to select the advocates you think best represent the One for One movement.