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I suspect citing poverty is merely an excuse to cover up personal prejudice against fish. One mother remarked of the smoked haddock pie: "My daughter loved it, but I wouldn't buy it myself."
I've also heard that some younger non-HE teachers involved in cookery events hold their noses in front of pupils when they smell fish, and some refuse to handle it.
This seems to be in direct conflict with the achievements of Curriculum For Excellence, where students embrace the subject of fish and seafood in geography,Belstaff urban Waxed jacket, English, art and other academic classes. But intellectual engagement – for all its merits – is not the same as hands-on experience, which is missing in the lives of many youngsters.
To a young child, knowing you're ingesting lots of brain-boosting Omega-3 with your oily fish means diddly-squat. So it's up to adults to help them absorb these lessons for life.
But when those best placed to nurture young people's future diet and optimum health – their parents and teachers – persist in giving out the message that fish is in some way offensive, is it any wonder that children grow up never having prepared or tasted it except when it's battered, deep-fried and drowned in salt, vinegar and tomato ketchup?
Entire generations of ordinary modern Scots have become disconnected to fish, despite living in a country almost surrounded by the sea and which has a thriving seafood industry.
However, there is hope. At Bathgate Academy in West Lothian recently I witnessed the first wave (if you'll pardon the phrase) of a three-year rolling education programme called Seafood In Schools. I was heartened by the attitude of the adults involved in enthusiastically nurturing what appeared to be young people's natural affinity with some species of fish, despite living inland.
Over two days of Government and industry-supported workshops staged by Seafood Scotland and local co-ordinators, 200 pupils – many bussed in from primary schools including Boghall, Blackburn, Balbardie, Murrayfield and Simpson – learned where seafood comes from, how healthy it is and how it reaches their plates (presumably,Belstaff knockhill Vintage Leather jacket, that's if their mums let them eat it at home). I watched as under-10s, 80% of whom said they had never had fish cooked at home, got to taste smoked trout, mackerel and salmon, sweet pickled herring, crab and sardines for the very first time courtesy of donations from retailers in a workshop hosted by nutritionist Catriona Frankitti of Fish For Health.
"We're trying to get children to start a relationship with fish," she said. "Primary school-aged kids are like sponges, and it's critical to get them involved now before they go to secondary school and learn received ideas. The samples they try have no skin or bones. That is justified if it's a first time for trying a food, because they'll always associate that food with that first experience, so I try to create as much of a fun atmosphere as possible."
Across the room,belstaff gangster jacket leather, John Franchetti, also from Fish For Health, stood over a table of fresh mackerel, squid, langoustine,Belstaff knockhill Vintage Leather jacket, lobster, cod,Bradford Belstaff jacket, haddock, mussels, oysters, clams and plaice, and explained to the children which type of boat catches which species, and where. He explained that what we call prawns are what the Spanish call langoustine, and that the deep-fried scampi they know are actually langoustine tails.
Meanwhile, I wonder if a high-profile Scottish seafood festival might help. Seafood Scotland is in favour of the idea – if a dynamic leader can be found. I spoke with Rick Stein, who is enthusiastic and suggested his erstwhile protege Roy Brett, chef-patron of Ondine in Edinburgh and executive chef of Loch Fyne Oysters in Argyll. Brett has gone one step further in garnering the support of the organisers and chefs of the West Cork and Cornwall seafood festivals to come to Scotland. "I'm keen to hold a Celtic seafood festival and would love to have it at Loch Fyne later this year," he told me. "It would be a celebration of the sea for every adult – and child."
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More than 100 nurses from both the public and private sectors in Scotland have faced serious disciplinary charges this year.
The figures, released by the Information Service Division Scotland, reveal that the total number of complaints hit 9161 in 2012/13,Belstaff Knockhill Jacket, up more than 1000 on the previous year.
Nurses struck off this year include Alison McLennan,Belstaff Maple Jacket buy, a charge nurse/night sister at A&E at Caithness General Hospital, who turned up for a shift drunk.
A spokesman for the ­Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC),Belstaff Mojave jacket price, which has the power to strike off a nurse,Belstaff Triumph lady jacket, said: "All healthcare regulators have experienced an increase in referrals. This is due to the public being more aware of the role of the regulators."
However, the Royal College of Nursing claimed too many referrals to the NMC were "inappropriate".
RCN Scotland associate director Norman Provant said: "There has been a substantial increase in referrals over the last few years,Belstaff Giubbino, but it is too simplistic to infer this reflects on standards of nursing care. It's important employers understand when it is appropriate, or not, to refer a nurse to the NMC."
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Venezuela and five other oil-exportingnations made history this week after they broke consensus and their insistence on maintaining oil production at current levels prevented the twelve-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) from increasing oil production quotas for the coming period. While three member states insisted on a Saudi proposal to increase daily oil output by 1.5 million barrels, Venezuela and others maintained their position, leaving existing production quotas in place.
A first in OPEC’s 51-year history, the organization’s 159th ministerial meeting saw Venezuela, Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran and Libya oppose an increase in oil production while Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates insisted on an increase. Iraq and Nigeria’s stance remained unclear.
“International agencies are looking for fissures in OPEC,” affirmed Venezuela’s energy and petroleum minister and president of the country’s state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Rafael Ramirez.
“There was a proposal to raise output by between 1.5 million barrels a day and 2 million…We, given the uncertainty in the market, thought that could cause the price of oil to collapse…the conditions to make that decision aren’t there,” said Ramirez.
According to the Venezuelan oil minister, “OPEC remains united and has emerged strengthened from the meeting.”
Normal worldwide oil production has been interrupted by the fighting in, and aerial bombardment of, Libya (down 1.3 million barrels per day) as well as the ongoing unrest in both Yemen and Syria (down 300,000 barrels between the two non-OPEC states).
According to OPEC Secretary General Abdala El-Badri, without an increase in oil production the nations that import oil will find themselves short a total 2 million barrels per day in the third semester of 2011, and 1.5 million barrels per day in the fourth.
With no agreement reached, the existing production quotas (established by OPEC in December 2008) officially remain in place. However, Saudi press reported today that Saudi   Arabia’s oil production would increase by 700,000 barrels per day in July with or without OPEC approval.
Ali al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Petroleum, said that his country plans to make up for the “margin of disagreement within OPEC”, suggesting the lack of consensus allows each member nation to decide how much, or little, to produce in the coming period.
On Tuesday Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told reporters at a Salinas, Ecuador press conference that “the international crude oil market is sufficiently supplied.”
“There is no crisis,” he said. “The cause of fair prices is not the lack of oil supply, but rather several structural factors.”
According to Chavez, “today’s prices, about $100 per barrel, are fair, from our point of view.” He also affirmed that “the madness of bombing Libya, or the aggressions against Iran, another OPEC country,” is the cause for current oil prices.
On OPEC
According to the organization’s , OPEC was founded in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 14, 1960. Its five founding members are Venezuela, Saudi  Arabia,Belstaff Preston Jacket, Iraq, Kuwait, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. They were later joined by Qatar (1961), Indonesia (1962), Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1962),Belstaff ocelot Blouson Leather collection, the United Arab Emirates (1967),belstaff gangster blouson, Algeria (1969), Nigeria (1971), Ecuador (1973), Gabon (1975) and Angola (2007).
In 1995, Gabon ended its membership and in 2009, Indonesia suspended its role in the organization,Belstaff Trialmaster jacket, leaving a total of twelve Member Countries.
Venezuela is said to have played a pivotal role in OPEC’s initial oil production policies as Venezuela’s Juan Pablo Perez, along with Saudi Arabia’s Abdullah Al-Tariki, helped draft OPEC’s Founding Resolution [14 September 1960]. As part of their strategy to give OPEC the strength it needed to face the “Seven Sisters” – the seven largest private oil companies in the world back in 1960 – both Perez and Al-Tariki insisted on OPEC’s right to regulate oil production so as to secure a price that best suited the needs of oil-producing countries.
In 2008, US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton (the current US Secretary of State) vowed to end OPEC’s role in managing oil production quotas by suing the organization at the World Trade Organization (WTO), affirming that OPEC could “no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world to decide how much oil they're going to produce and what price they're going to put it at.”
According to Bernard Mommer, Venezuela’s former governor designate at OPEC, “every country in the world has the sovereign right to manage their own natural resources which, as such, are part of their national territory. In the case of non-renewable resources [like oil],harley-davidson mens pathway leather vest, this right has special characteristics.”
 
       
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the Syrian government on Thursday to allow U,Giubbino Belstaff moto.N. inspectors to investigate "without delay" the latest alleged chemical attack in the country's civil war and grant them access to the site near Damascus.
Ban has asked the U.N. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Angela Kane,harley davidson roadway leather jacket uk, to travel to Damascus to push for access for the U.N. team, which arrived in Syria on Sunday to investigate several previous claims of chemical weapons use.
Syrian President Bashar Assad's government is under increasing pressure from Western and Gulf Arab countries and Assad's ally Russia to allow access to the rebel-held site of Wednesday's pre-dawn attack. The opposition Syrian National Coalition has also urged U.N. access.
"The Secretary-General believes that the incidents reported yesterday need to be investigated without delay," Ban's press office said in a statement. "A formal request is being sent by the United Nations to the government of Syria in this regard. He expects to receive a positive response without delay."
Speaking in Seoul on Friday, Ban said he was pressing hard for full cooperation of the Syrian government so that the mission can swiftly initiate the investigation. 
"I can think of no good reason why any party - either government or opposition forces - would decline this opportunity to get to the truth of the matter," he told a diplomatic forum.
Syria's government offered no immediate public response to calls on Thursday for the U.N. team to inspect the site.
Assad opponents gave death tolls from the attack ranging from 500 to well over 1,000 and said on Thursday that more bodies were still being found. The Syrian government has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons.
The U.N. team, led by Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom, is already looking into three claims of chemical use in Syria's conflict. The United Nations has received a total of 14 reports of possible chemical attacks - one from Syria's government and the rest from Britain, France and the United States.
Inquiry won't place blame
The Syrian government and the opposition have accused each other of using chemical weapons, and both have denied doing so. The U.N. inquiry will try to establish only whether chemical weapons were used, not who used them.
Ban said on Monday that if the experts found that chemical weapons had been used then it would be up to "the international community to determine what course of action should be taken to prove ... accountability and what needs to be done."
"Use of chemical weapons is a violation of international law and international human rights law,belstaff brad leather jacket sale," Ban told a news conference.
The United Nations has been demanding unfettered access in Syria to conduct the investigation. Sellstrom's team consists of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the World Health Organization,Belstaff Wax Cotton motorcycle jacket.
Ban appointed Sellstrom to lead the inquiry in March, but diplomatic wrangling and concerns over safety prevented his team from entering Syria until this week.
Syria is one of seven countries that have not joined the 1997 convention banning chemical weapons. Western countries believe it has stockpiles of undeclared mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agents.
The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since 2011.
More than 1.9 million Syrians have fled the country - two-thirds of those since the start of the year - and more than 4.2 million people have been internally displaced, the United Nations has said. Most of those in need are women and children.
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has seized on the red, yellow and blue cap  a contrast to the red beret preferred by Chavez, a former paratrooper  to emphasize his message of reconciliation and inclusiveness in a country he says is tired of confrontation after almost 14 years of "Bolivarian revolution."
"I dont care about [the color of] the shirt you want to wear, what I care about is progress," Capriles roared at a campaign rally this week, to cheers from supporters waving flags of all colors.
The business-friendly law graduate, who admires Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, has a little more than a week left before presidential elections on Oct. 7 to persuade Venezuelans that Chavezs government has squandered an oil boom, with little to show for it but unfulfilled promises.
"The model to follow is Brazil," Capriles told a Financial Times reporter in the back of his campaign bus,belstaff cat jacket black, after changing his sweat-drenched shirt at the end of an exhausting day of campaigning in the western city of Valencia last weekend.
Although derided by Chavez as a "neoliberal," Capriles describes himself as a "progressive," underlining the need to boost private investment, which has collapsed after heavy-handed state intervention in the economy, while maintaining Chavezs popular social programs.
Lacking Chavezs almost unlimited access to media and oil-fueled public finances,  Capriles has embarked on a feverish "door-to-door" tour of the country, visiting more than 250 communities since July,Belstaff Wallingford, often several a day at different ends of the country, from remote settlements in the Amazon and the Andes to cattle-ranching plains and urban slums.
"Im tireless," he said, still fizzing with energy after a day of blowing kisses at his swooning female admirers,Belstaff Preston leather jacket, having babies thrust in his face for blessings and autographing tricolor baseball caps.
Capriless hyperkinetic grass-roots campaign contrasts with that of Chavez,  and has preferred to address voters on television or hold mass rallies in select locations. The normally garrulous presidents speeches have been scarcer and shorter than usual, sparking speculation that his recovery may not be as complete as he claims.
The challengers strategy appears to be working, with polls showing an increasingly tight race: The latest from well-regarded Consultores 21 gives Capriles a slight lead,Belstaff Mojave jacket leather, although the equally respected Datanalisis puts Chavez 10 points ahead.
Enthusiastic crowds meet Capriles wherever he goes. "Hes a rock star," said Alejandro Barrios, an old friend. "He wasnt like that at school,Belstaff Blouson uk, though," Barrios noted, claiming that Capriles used to be "extremely shy" and that the athletic man affectionately known by his followers as "El Flaco," Spanish for thin, used to weigh 66 pounds more than he does now.
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ONE thing that sets Australia apart from its Asian neighbours is the interminable, vicious public infighting that scars its politics. On March 25th Julia Gillard,harley-davidson mens pathway leather vest, the prime minister,belstaff new norton jacket, shuffled her cabinet for the fourth time since scraping home in an election in August 2010. She purged it of supporters of Kevin Rudd, her predecessor, whom some of her Labor Party colleagues had tried and failed to install as her replacement on March 21st. Australian commentators wrung their hands at the tawdry politicking. “Our long national nightmare continues,” lamented Sam Roggeveen on a blog on the website of the Lowy Institute, a foreign-affairs think-tank in Sydney, fretting that Australia was becoming a laughing-stock. It is true that its politics provokes a smirk or two elsewhere in Asia. Few could argue with Ms Gillard’s assessment that the coup attempt was “unseemly” and “self-indulgent”.
The Labor Party’s troubles date back to Mr Rudd’s stint as prime minister, from 2007-10. He alienated his colleagues and was losing popularity, so the party toppled him ahead of the 2010 election. Many were taken aback both by the suddenness of his downfall, and the ruthlessness with which Ms Gillard knifed him. He seems never to have given up hope of a comeback. A Mandarin-speaking former diplomat, in public he is an appealing character: erudite, eloquent, witty and even, on occasion, self-deprecating. In opinion polls he has consistently scored much higher than Ms Gillard as the leader who might secure victory in the next election, which she has called for September 14th.
           
The sad truth for Mr Rudd, however, is that many of his Labor parliamentary colleagues, who choose the leader,Belstaff Centaur Leather jacket, cannot stand him. According to James Button, who worked briefly as a speechwriter for Mr Rudd, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, “behind closed doors he consistently treated people with rudeness and contempt.” He had no chance of unseating Ms Gillard and, for the second time in their three leadership contests, did not even compete in the leadership ballot she called. Hence the “Chicken Kev” taunt thrown by another columnist and former Labor speechwriter, Tim Soutphommasane.
Ms Gillard, on the other hand, a former industrial-relations lawyer with strong ties to the trade unions that back Labor, has again shown her toughness. In a recent interview with the Canberra Times she said that, in politics, you have to be “a pretty hard bastard”. Tony Blair, a former British prime minister dogged by intraparty conspiracies, had told her politics was afflicted with a “new brutality”. She spoke of how technology has transformed the media, encouraging “more drama, more shock, more horror”.
At least now Mr Rudd has promised Ms Gillard his “100% support”. Even if he had his fingers crossed when he spoke, Ms Gillard can probably concentrate for the next six months on fighting the opposition rather than looking over her shoulder. Still, if the opinion polls are to be believed, she needs quite a turnaround to avoid a humiliating defeat in September.
Perhaps her best hope is that the conservative opposition coalition has as self-destructive a recent history as Labor’s. Its leading force, the Liberal Party, has had four leaders in the past six years. Tony Abbott, the incumbent and probable coalition candidate for prime minister, is not its most popular politician. The man he ousted in 2009,Belstaff Douglas jacket, Malcolm Turnbull, is a bigger vote-winner. Ms Gillard, whose finest moment as prime minister was a blistering attack last year on Mr Abbott for alleged misogyny, may feel she still has a chance.
Australian politics seems locked in a culture of democratic coups, with the perverse effect that the leading parties fail to field their best candidates. And, when not dominated by tales of back-stabbing leaders and their muck-spreading sidekicks, they are taken over by scandals of sleaze and graft.
Asia’s big democracies—India, Indonesia and Japan—have all faced difficulties in finding leaders acceptable both to their parties and to the electorate. India’s Congress party seems likely to resort, by default, to a dynastic succession; the most popular politician in Indonesia, Joko Widodo, Jakarta’s governor, is not yet even a candidate in next year’s presidential election; Japan is on its seventh prime minister in seven years (and it is his second go in that period). In all three countries politics is even more unseemly, self-indulgent and even corrupt.
Just like the Politburo
This sounds like an advertisement for autocracy. On a superficial view, China, for example, does not suffer from this leadership instability. One ten-year regime has just given way, in a choreographed transition, to another, expected to endure until 2022. But in fact, Chinese politics also closely resembles Australia’s. There, too, no politician forgets that, as Mr Rudd put it in 1998, “politics is about power”. There, too, leaders are chosen by factional intrigue. There, too, politics is dominated by personal rivalry. And there, too, the public’s preferences are of secondary importance.
The difference is that Australia’s politics is played out in the open. Uniquely in the rich world, Australia is enjoying its 22nd consecutive year of economic growth. If this is a national nightmare, who wants to wake up? Moreover, as Mr Roggeveen forecast, the leadership kerfuffle played out peacefully according to the rules of Australia’s democracy: “No troops on the streets and probably not even a demonstration.” Australia may in fact be Asia’s most stable country.
By comparison, China’s politics inhabits the shadows, except when some scandal,belstaff brooklands mojave jacket, such as the Bo Xilai affair last year, casts a lurid light. And when that happens it calls the whole closed system into question. As Mr Roggeveen noted a day after his doom-laden blogpost, the latest Rudd-Gillard tussle did not make Australia a laughing-stock after all. It was widely seen as a non-event. It must be chastening for Australia’s leaders that their squabbles seem irrelevant. But it is also a lesson in the benefits of transparency.
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By Deborah Fallows
Many readers wrote in about  on how so many South Dakotans end a sentence with with. As in, “Are you coming with?” instead of “Are you coming with us?” And as shown in the map above,  at NC State.
Most suggested that this construction comes from German or one of the Scandinavian languages. (South Dakota’s ethnic makeup is about 40% German and 15% Norwegian). I agree,Belstaff Trackmaster jacket! Here are two emails to represent the rest:
I wonder: are there many people in Sioux Falls of German ancestry? Because "coming with" is good German: the verb mitkommen,?or in interrogative form, Kommen Sie mit??literally translates as "Are you coming with?"
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I am not a linguist, but I have a theory. Much of the upper Midwest was settled by Germans. The verb "come along" is mitkommen?as opposed to simply "come" for kommen. In a sentence, however, the mit often is moved to the end of the sentence.
Everyone is a linguist!
I decided to email my dissertation supervisor and?go-to linguistics guru, who is also a specialist in Germanic languages. That is?Bob King, now retired from the linguistics department at the University of Texas at Austin, where I did my graduate work (Hook ‘em!). He confirmed:
"Come with," also "go with" ("Are you going with?"), is an upper Midwest thing, where you had the bulk of settlers from Germany,belstaff maple leather jacket, Norway, Sweden, and some from Holland. All of those languages have the "come with" thing… Norwegian especially, but also Swedish and Dutch.
I asked him about other German enclaves in America, like Texas and Cincinnati. He wrote:
“I have never heard it in Texas German, now on its last legs but alive when I came here in the Sixties. I wouldn't be surprised if Texas German does have it but I just haven't heard it… But it certainly hasn't spread to English--you never hear it here except among upper Midwest transplants.
And he added an interesting bonus from a historical perspective:
“When I studied in Germany (in the late ‘50’s) I feel like one didn't say Kommen Sie mit,belstaff womens gangster jacket??and so on as much as they do now. The language was more formal fifty years ago, the du--Sie?distinction more rigidly enforced, and I remember saying and hearing Kommen Sie??as normal. Adding the mit?softens it, the way adding things frequently does: "He is Jewish" sounds nicer than "He is a Jew." Like Kommen Sie mit!?in the imperative sounds less Gestapo-like than Kommen Sie!
I’m going to be on the lookout for other “softeners” in regional English usage. Wait until we get to Texas, where using one qualifier like might, would, or could?isn’t enough. There,?“might could” � a double softener � prevails. English usage can seem to go to extremes compared with, say,mens belstaff gangster jacket, Chinese. For example, when in China, the way to decline an offer from a waiter for water is bu yao!?(don’t want; don’t need). In English, we tend to add a lot of padding and softening: “Oh no thanks, not right now. Maybe later. But thanks!” I wrote about this in .
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Visually impaired children to benefit from USD 6.25m Seeing is Believing Child Eye Health East Africa Project
01st March 2013  Kampala, Uganda; Standard Chartered Bank, together with seven international NGOs, the Ministry of Health and Education and institutions of higher learning and research in Uganda has today launched the Child Eye Health Programme at Hotel Africana.
The grand event which was presided over by the State Minister for Health, Hon. Sarah Opendi was attended by VIPs, eye care practitioners,Belstaff Blouson leather jacket, corporate companies, associations,Belstaff Brooklands Blouson mens motorcycle, school going children, people with disabilities among others. This is the biggest single investment that Standard Chartered has invested in the communities in its history.
The launch officially flags off the four (4) year Seeing is Believing Child Eye Health programme in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. This project which is funded by Standard Chartered Bank will be implemented by two consortia partners in eye health and education led by Brien Holden Vision Institute and the Chistoffel Blinded Mission (CBM).
The primary aim of the project is to reduce the percentage of avoidable blindness and visual impairment among children by promoting child eye health in the 3 East African countries.
Over the next four years, the programme will directly benefit children between the ages of 0-to-15-years-old, and will indirectly benefit children through changes in national policies and improved coordination of child eye health delivery.
The Minister of State for Health, Hon Sarah Opendi, who presided over the function thanked Standard Chartered Bank for its support of government efforts at service delivery. She said
"As the Ministry of Health, we are hereby assuring you of our full commitment to provide all the assistance in our means to ensure that this program succeeds and is sustainable through the government structures, even after its expiry after the 4 years it will run. I would like to use this opportunity to call upon other organizations to emulate the example Standard Chartered has set by supporting the governments to offer service delivery.
This particular initiative fits in very well with the true spirit of East Africa as we map out the way forward in integration and it could pose a model to our political structures in the way a private entity and business like Standard Chartered can coordinate a project of this nature across borders." said Hon Opendi.
"The programme which targets children aged 0 to 15 years, takes a holistic view of child eye health looking at the whole childs needs: from building awareness and education of child eye health among families and communities; building the referral networks to identify and correctly diagnose children for problems (including within schools); to ensuring the clinical infrastructure and human resources are in place to treat children with blindness and visual impairment; and ensuring that children who cannot be medically or surgically treated are given support and educational opportunities to enable them unleash their full potential. ," explained Mr. Herbert Zake, Standard Chartered Banks Head of Corporate Affairs.
The uniqueness of this programme is based on the fact that two partner consortia, who for years have worked more independently, will work together to address the holistic needs of children. Both consortia have distinct but complementary objectives.
Importantly, Brien Holden Vision Institute, will focus on developing an African model for school eye health, building networks to identify and correct child eye health problems as early as possible and will support the education of blind children.
The other consortium, led by Christian Blind Mission (CBM),Belstaff Blouson leather jacket, will mainly focus on strengthening the health system to enhance the existing clinical capacity to deliver child eye care at all levels, (human resources, awareness creation, equipment, consumables) and will work on strengthening referral systems from community to tertiary level.
While addressing the guests, the Country Director, Sightsavers, Mr. Johnson Ngorok said;
"The goal of the project is to increase access to child eye health services by 30% over and above the current level of service provision. Implementation will be carried out by the four tertiary eye centers that we have i.e. Mulago NRH, Mengo Hospital, Ruharo eye center and St. Benedictine Eye Hospital in Tororo and six Regional Referral Hospitals i.e. Jinja, Soroti, Lira, Gulu, Arua and Fort Portal.
The Six Regional Referral Hospitals were chosen because of the presence of an ophthalmologist. As for the geographical coverage the project will reach 9 of the 14 ministry of health regions". He concluded.
The Seeing is Believing Child Eye Health project will use the existing Ministry of Health infrastructures and Human resources for its implementation.
"Blindness and visual impairment have serious effects on the educational and employment opportunities of children,Belstaff Staple jacket," said Sub-Regional Manager (Eastern Africa) Brien Holden Vision Institute Ms. Naome Nsubuga. "Less than 10% of blind children attend school, which is a worrying statistic," she said. According to Nsubuga, there is an estimated 8,500 to 10,000 children with severe visual impairment and another 4.5m (10%) suffering from refractive error and other eye ailments in the whole of the East Africa region.
"That is why this project is such an important one," she said. "This one-programme, two-projects approach means that all partners involved can play to their strengths to meet the whole needs of the child".
According to the Global Programs Director of the Brien Holden Vision Institute, the CEO of the African Vision Research Institute and the Chair of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), Professor Kovin Naidoo; "There are 1.4 million blind children in the world, the impact of blindness and visual impairment on children therefore is far greater than for adults, as children have their whole lives before them.
"In terms of the impact on reducing years lived with disability, curing a child of blindness is, on average, equivalent to curing 10 adults with cataract surgeries," says the Professor.
The programme will also work hand in hand with ministries of health and education in the three countries of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania to embed the projects activities in national government structures with the aim of ensuring long-term sustainability of the project.
Project statistics:
· USD 6.25 million invested over 4 years (roughly equal across each country)
· 4 million children will directly benefit through screening, treatment for basic eye problems, eye surgeries, and eye glasses.
o 3 million through the Brien Holden Vision Institute Consortium
o 1 million through Christian Blind Mission Consortium
· 5,908 children to receive surgeries
· 757 children referred for rehabilitation and education
· 7 million children directly benefited through health education
· 82 eye care clinics enhanced and established in hospitals across the region
· 8,840 people trained in child eye care through the programme (including paediatric ophthalmologists, Low Vision specialists, optometrists,Belstaff Brooklands Blouson black, ophthalmological nurses, maternal child health workers, community workers and school teachers)
· national child eye health coordination systems are enhanced
· conducive changes for inclusion of child eye health in existing health and education systems, training programs, guidelines and ultimately policies, are advocated for
· Regional sharing of resources, training facilities and coordination strengthened
· The Brien Holden Vision Institute consortium includes; the Fred Hollows Foundation, Light for The World, Operation Eyesight Universal, Perkins International, the African Vision Institute, the Uganda Optometric Association, the Tanzania Optometric Association and the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology.
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