Cradle Care Initiative is up against a variety of barriers: difficulties transporting vaccines and ensuring their efficacy, limited trained staff for both the healthcare and sensitization aspects of the campaign, and the prevalence of traditional medicine, which eschews vaccinations and often attributes preventable deaths to immunizations themselves.
Nevertheless, cradle care team hopes to empower women, as they has done before, with the information that they need to make informed decisions and prioritize their families’ well-being.
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They hope to reach all facets of the Cross River State community through this project, including refugees and internally displaced people in this region bordering Cameroon, and increase the immunization rate to 30% in the next five years.
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Higher rates of immunization, leading to lower incidence of disease, will help children and their families thrive, giving hope for a brighter future.
This grant is funded by IREX and D Prize
