ARCH currently supports the NGO Child Health in Brazil (Saúde Criança). Child Health works with families that face the double challenge of social vulnerability and a child´s illness. Child Health aims to restructure and promote the self-sustainability of families with children in social risk, that are referred by public health organizations. It was set up in Rio de Janeiro in 1991 by Dr. Vera Cordeiro and is now considered the top social organization in Latin America and 38th in the world by the Swiss-based Global Journal in 2012. Click here for more information. Alastair Ramsay was a trustee of Child Health in Rio de Janeiro for five years before he died.
ARCH worked with the local community to set up Child Health Florianópolis between 2008 and 2011, the first social franchise of Child Health and also provided a small endowment to meet some basic operating costs on an ongoing basis.
- Click herehere to watch a short video about the work in Florianópolis.
- Click here to access all 6 bi-annual reports to ARCH, providing complete narrative and financial information on how the three year grant was used and the impact it had.
- Click here to read the monthly blog which provides a personal account by Bébhinn Ramsay, one of Saúde Criança Florianópolis´ founders, of how the organization was set up.
In addition ARCH has approved a project to support Child Health in Rio de Janeiro to evaluate the use of the methdology by the local government in Belo Horizonte. Additional funds raised will support Child Health Florianópolis and if funding allows, other parts of Child Health.
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