Through skill exchange with medical professionals and community health workers, Palms’ volunteers contribute to greater health systems which can care for and protect young children.
Through community education programs, including immunisation, nutrition and motherhood programs, volunteers contribute to a broader community-level understanding of how to reduce levels of infant and under-five mortality.
Numerous Palms volunteers have recently worked with people with disabilities, promoting the rights of adults and children with disabilities who otherwise are sometimes neglected and at greater risk of preventable or treatable diseases.
Improved communication networks, through Palms’ Connect East Timor program, have increased access to health services in rural areas.
Some Palms Volunteers working towards MDG 4
- Sharon and Ian volunteering in Timor-Leste
- Edith and Lawrence volunteering in Uganda
- Fulvio Fabreschi volunteering in Ethiopia
- Claire Michalanney volunteering in Ethiopia
- Margaret Fogarty volunteering in Timor-Leste
- Fran Hewitt volunteering in South Africa
- Carmel Lawry volunteering in South Africa
- Tim and Corinne Lawther volunteering in Timor-Leste
- Mim and Damian volunteering in Timor-Leste
