"Grassroots CSOs in the study area have the capacity, capability and willingness to mobilize their communities towards increased demand for and uptake of immunization services."
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According to the innovators, the EasyDry M500, which was originally developed by the AflaSTOP project with funding from USAid and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is a highly mobile, portable maize dryer targeted at smallholder farmers.
It uses open-source technology that can dry maize in batches of 500 kilos, lowering the moisture level from 18 to 20 per cent to approximately 13.5 per cent in three hours. According to the innovators’ manual, the dryer burns maize cobs as its main heat source, given that cobs are available on farms and at little to no cost. The heat and smoke produced from burning the maize cobs pass through the heat exchange of the EasyDry M500 and then out the chimney.
KARACHI: “We have to work in partnership and join hands to achieve results,” says Tasneem Fatima, Team Lead CHIP, Karachi. Fatima has been working with CHIP (Civil Society Human and Institutional Development Programme) since 2015. At present she is working to encourage and motivate parents to get their children immunised. Her target area is UC-2 in Baldia Town, district West Karachi.
“There are eight super risk union councils in Karachi and UC-2 Baldia (Ittehad Town) is one of them,” she says. “People belonging to various communities live there but most are Pakhtuns. There are multiple problems, such as lack of awareness, illiteracy, and poverty, due to which immunisation rate is very low,” says Fatima.
People are not aware of the need for immunisation or if some of them are, they don’t know where to go for it. AFP/File
KARACHI: “We have to work in partnership and join hands to achieve results,” says Tasneem Fatima, Team Lead CHIP, Karachi. Fatima has been working with CHIP (Civil Society Human and Institutional Development Programme) since 2015. At present she is working to encourage and motivate parents to get their children immunised. Her target area is UC-2 in Baldia Town, district West Karachi.
“There are eight super risk union councils in Karachi and UC-2 Baldia (Ittehad Town) is one of them,” she says. “People belonging to various communities live there but most are Pakhtuns. There are multiple problems, such as lack of awareness, illiteracy, and poverty, due to which immunisation rate is very low,” says Fatima.