TAKE ACTION - HOW YOU CAN HELP

THINGS YOU CAN DO

• Make a financial contribution to the SOCF NOMA Fund.
  Click here for donation options.

• Help spread the word about noma and its child victims by sharing this website with at least five other people.

• Join the "SOCF Noma Network." Send an email to noma@secureourchildren.org with "Noma Network" in the subject line.
  

WHY FUNDS ARE NEEDED (where your donations go)

• Raise public awareness of the problem through production and wide distribution of relevant health education materials in communities where malnutrition and noma are prevalent.
• Promote good nutritional practices using locally-available foods.
• Pay for immunization of the children against measles and other endemic infections.
• Promote good oral hygiene practices and appropriate environmental sanitation.
• Provide clean water supplies to the impoverished communities.
• Train mothers, village elders and primary health care personnel about the early recognition of antecedent lesions of Noma in children.
• Provide adequate facilities to treat surgical cases locally.
• Provide financial support for epidemiological surveillance of Noma by Public Health personnel.
• Support the activities of health organizations caring for NOMA patients.
• Promote research into the etiology of the disease.
• Identify and correct other conditions that promote the development of NOMA.