About the Creative Health Campaign

 

Creative Health Campaign events are colorful and joyous.

 

Creative Health Campaign

24 communities involved

Over 120 partners making it happen

76 festivals implemented

More than 24,000 participants

10,000 children

100s of activists & volunteers

23 educational materials created

Over 100,000 copies handed out

 

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The Creative Health Campaign in Lebanon aimed at enabling communities to take charge of their health. It was conceptualized by ANERA and its partners after the 2006 war in Lebanon, when partners succeeded in integrating self-reliance into relief work. The campaign grew from 6 partners then to more than 120 partners in 2011, reaching areas all over Lebanon including most of the Palestinian camps and gatherings, the marginalized Lebanese communities mainly in the south and the Beirut suburb of Dahiya.

Objectives

  • To put health into the agenda of local organizations working in poor and marginalized communities

  • To reach community members with simple, smart and cost-effective practices that people can adopt to protect their health, save on expenses and foster self-reliance.

Creative Health Themes

Breastfeeding

 Eating fruits and vegetables
Infant & Young Child Feeding Practicing healthier nutrition
Rational Use of Medicine Exercising
Raising anti-tobacco awareness Mixing home-based
oral rehydration solutions

 

Highlights from the Creative Health Campaign
June 2009 - May 2011

The Creative Health Campaign had a great impact at a very low cost. From June 2009 to May 2011 the campaign:

  • launched four national campaigns;

  • expanded to more than 120 partners;

  • organized 102 festivities with more than 29,450 participants;

  • more than 16,000 mothers participated in mothers' sessions;

  • more than 15,000 children participated in children's activities;

  • organized 155 skills enhancement sessions for local groups, reaching 3,015 participants;

  • printed and widely distributed 34 key packets of CHC materials;

  • distributed 1,258,500 pieces of educational materials to tens of thousands in local communities;

  • and organized several local, regional and national consultative and planning platforms.


Funding

Funding came from ANERA's individual donors and generous organizations such as ACCESS, the Mosaic Foundation, the Virginia Wellington Foundation, Save the Children UK and UNICEF Lebanon.

 

Date Modified: February 2012