Johnson & Johnson Health and Wellbeing Grants 2004-2005

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

• Paying for regular showers at the local bathhouse in order to improve hygiene and prevent skin infections, and providing vitamin and calcium supplements (Achlal, Mongolia)
• Developing and training health promoters in a new mental health strategy for participants (Deporte y Vida, Peru)
• Providing free medical checkups and establishing a special fund to be used for frequent health and psychological emergencies (AFEL, Lebanon)
• Acquiring a malaria self-diagnosis kit, disinfectants, and medicines for a new on-site health clinic (Children’s Town, Zambia)
• Preparing daily nutritious meals for students (EISC, China)
• Supporting yearly checkups for youth and monthly doctor visits to rural villages (Horn Relief, Somalia)
• Offering counseling sessions for participants and their families (TYHF, Georgia)
• Organizing quarry-based medical camps, training health volunteers, and purchasing first-aid kits for project sites (ACDS, India)
• Conducting dental hygiene training, mental health counseling, and tuberculosis prevention education (CEDOICOM, Brazil)
• Funding yearly immunizations and emergency services (Los Romeritos, Guatemala)
• Purchasing hygiene materials such as soap, shampoo, and dental supplies for participants, as well as preventive health education (Luna Nueva, Paraguay)
• Providing food, nutrition education, and immunizations, and constructing indoor European-style toilets (IIMP, Turkey)
• Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases and other infections, and conducting street theater productions addressing health-harming social practices such as female infanticide and child marriage (Sanghamitra, India)
• Constructing shower rooms, purchasing soap, and hiring a barber to cut the children’s hair and teach them how to keep their heads free of lice (EBCEF, Ethiopia)

During the fall 2004 grant cycle, GFC provided supplemental health and well-being grants to fifty-five of its fifty-eight 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 not only strengthen grantee partners’ health efforts, but also help these organizations make a greater impact on the children they serve by facilitating a more holistic approach to the children’s well-being.

* Currencies calculated on 6 October 2004 for fall grants.

Click below to read how grantee partners have used Johnson & Johnson Health and Well-Being Grants:
2002–2003 grants
2003–2004 grants