Johnson & Johnson Health and Wellbeing Grants 2003-2004

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

• Constructing sanitary toilets (Children’s Town, Zambia)
• Distributing medicine and hygiene aids, such as medicated lice shampoo (RWA, Romania)
• Covering transportation costs for community health-care workers to enable them to reach isolated populations (Halley Movement, Mauritius)
• Purchasing multivitamins, training staff on nutrition, and growing additional nutritious vegetables and fruits in the school’s kitchen garden (KRC, Kenya)
• Developing a curriculum that teaches basic sanitation, proper nutrition, the need for and means of obtaining clean drinking water, and preventative measures for STDs and other diseases (SKI, Sierra Leone)
• Purchasing a water storage tank with an ultraviolet purifier (DLG, Pakistan)
• Establishing first-aid centers in villages (RIDE, India)
• Providing basic medical supplies and services for residents of the girls’ home, including sanitary pads and gynecological checkups (Casa Daya, Mexico)
• Offering monthly medical clinics (PEACE, Sri Lanka)
• Developing emotional-health packets, which include training guides, brochures, games, and puppets (Aangan, Pakistan)
• Providing professional counseling regarding safe sexual behavior (LPTM, United States)
• Providing basic hygiene supplies such as toothbrushes and water purification tablets (Synapse, Senegal)
• Supporting a drop-in shelter that provides basic medical treatment, condoms, and counseling for vulnerable youth (TYAP, Thailand)

During 2003–2004, GFC provided supplemental health and well-being grants to eighty of its ninety-five 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. The health and well-being grants not only strengthen grantee partners’ health efforts but 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:
2002–2003 grants
2004–2005 grants