Johnson & Johnson Health and Wellbeing Grants 2002-2003

While the uses of GFC’s supplemental health and well-being grants are varied, grantee partners’ innovations include:

• Developing sanitary pit toilets for increased hygiene, including a model hand-washing station outside of the pit toilets (Jifunze Project, Tanzania)
• Providing hepatitis A and B vaccinations, iron supplements, and oral rehydration supplements (NEED, India)
• Hiring a physical therapist for treatment of scoliosis (Biliki, Georgia)
• Distributing hygiene packets containing soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, detergent, hair oil, and undergarments (Nishtha, India)
• Hiring a counselor for sexually abused children (JUCONI, Mexico)
• Purchasing lice shampoo and mosquito repellant and nets to prevent against malaria (SCT, Sri Lanka)
• Facilitating parasite campaigns, including stool samples and educational materials and workshops (Deporte y Vida, Peru)
• Providing delousing treatment (Fundación Apoyar, Colombia)

During the 2002–2003 fiscal year, GFC provided supplemental health and well-being grants to fifty-eight of its seventy-two grantee partners. While the knowledge that GFC has been able to acquire through this process is invaluable, so too is the work on behalf of children’s health that these grants are facilitating. These grants will not only strengthen grantee partners’ health efforts, but they will also help these organizations have a greater impact on the children they serve by facilitating a more holistic approach to the children’s well-being.

Click below to read how grantee partners have used Johnson & Johnson Health and Well-Being Grants:
2003–2004 grants
2004–2005 grants