VACCINATION FOR POOR BABIES:

Children are the precious blessing of the world and nobody can try to make least the importance of this super amazing creature. Children are the basic capital of any country around the world. It’s the flowers in the garden. Children are innocent and cutest in the world. Similarly, health is one of the most important things in the world. Everyone wants to live healthy and happy in your life. Sometimes parents make them mistakes due to ego and preservation of wrong old traditions. And, they pay a large amount of pain for mistakes. Everybody has the right to living a happy and healthy life. Unfortunately, sometimes small and innocent child has a lost the right to a healthy and happy life. Because their parents have not enough many for treatment and vaccination on time.
Agenda of our group:

Our agenda is to target poor and illiterate people, provide awareness of them for vaccination and dangerous different lifelong diseases like polio. And convince the people to vaccinate their child against diseases. We try to a minimum of 50 babies have vaccinating during our project duration. The Vaccination of the babies will be helped in future to get admission in schools because these babies will be registered in the hospital and make the Birth certificate or Bay form easily and get admission in school with ease. Two reasons behind the agenda are one vaccination of children and second the sustainability to get admission in school. Unfortunately, in Pakistan, many poor socioeconomic status children did not get admission in school because their parents don’t have identity cards (ID) and the chain goes on their ancients that also have no ID cards. We will try and do our extra mile to achieve this goal.
Vaccination and its types:
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. The purpose of vaccination is to produce immunity. Immunity means the presence in a person’s body of cells and substances known as antibodies that can produce a protective immune response. Here we see some kinds of diseases that require vaccination.
- Diphtheria: In Diphtheria signs and symptoms include a thick coating in the back of the throat that can make it hard to breathe. Diphtheria can lead to breathing problems, paralysis, and heart failure.
- Tetanus: In tetanus signs and symptoms include painful tightening of the muscles, usually all over the body. Tetanus can lead to stiffness of the jaw that can make it difficult to open the mouth or swallow.
- Pertussis: In pertussis signs and symptoms include violent coughing spells that can make it hard for a baby to eat, drink, or breathe. These spells can last for several weeks. Pertussis can lead to pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, or death. Pertussis can be very dangerous in infants. Most pertussis deaths are in babies younger than 3 months of age.
- Polio:

In polio signs and symptoms can include flu-like illness, or there may be no signs or symptoms at all. Polio can lead to permanent paralysis (can’t move an arm or leg, or sometimes can’t breathe) and death.
5. Hepatitis B: In Hepatitis B signs and symptoms can include flu-like illness, or there may be no signs or symptoms at all. Polio can lead to permanent paralysis (can’t move an arm or leg, or sometimes can’t breathe) and death. A mother infected with hepatitis B can infect her baby at birth. Tetanus enters the body through a cut or wound; it is not spread from person to person.
6. Hib (Haemophilus influenza type): In Hib signs and symptoms can include fever, headache, stiff neck, cough, and shortness of breath. There might not be any signs or symptoms in mild cases. Hib can lead to meningitis (infection of the brain and spinal cord coverings); pneumonia; infections of the ears, sinuses, blood, joints, bones, and covering of the heart; brain damage; severe swelling of the throat, making it hard to breathe; and deafness. Children younger than 5 years of age are at greatest risk for Hib disease.
7. Pneumococcal Disease: In Pneumococcal Disease: Signs and symptoms include fever, chills, cough, and, chest pain. In infants, symptoms can also include meningitis, seizures, and sometimes rash. Pneumococcal disease can lead to meningitis (infection of the brain and spinal cord coverings); infections of the ears, sinuses and blood; pneumonia; deafness; and brain damage. About 1 out of 15 children who get pneumococcal meningitis will die from the infection.
8. Measles:

Measles signs and symptoms appear around 10 to 14 days after exposure to the virus. Signs and symptoms of measles typically include a Fever a Dry cough, Runny nose, Sore throat, Inflamed eyes. Tiny white spots with bluish-white centres on a red background found inside the mouth on the inner lining of the cheek also called Koplik’s spots. A skin rash made up of large, flat blotches that often flow into one another. The infection occurs in sequential stages over a period of two to three weeks.
Plan for Achieving the Goals:
Planning is the most important key of successes. For the goal of achieving, we have taken some steps and planned everything.
Research: First of all we do research on disease and signs and find symptoms as well.
Find the Area for the accomplishment of purpose:
In this step, we find the area where we have got a large number of infants and that place would be near the Government hospitals as well. Name of the places are given below:
- Jinnah hospitals and near areas
- Sheikh Zaid Hospital and there surrounding areas
- Chaudhry Rehmat Ali Memorial Hospital and nearest areas.
Print the pamphlets and posters:
We print the pamphlets and posters for providing awareness about dangerous diseases and we should use only images in posters and pamphlets. For the sake of awareness and seriousness of different problems.
Use of mother language:
For the sake of better understanding, we can use mother tongue of these areas like Punjabi and Urdu.
Find the price of vaccination:
We can find the price of Vaccination and If we can not afford the amount so We can find the solution and doing fundraising for our project.
Registered infants in hospital record:
We will make sure that all infants which we choose for vaccination that all are registered in hospital record and make a birth certificate.
After the project step:
After finishing our project we will contact them on dates of vaccination and remember them to go to the hospital and vaccinate your child. We divide 50 infants into five members and 1 person have contact numbers of 10 infants parents and that person have the responsibility that the infant complete the vaccination course.
What steps are completed?
We have done research on diseases and one search areas. The part of the social media campaign divided between 2 people one can put updates on the facebook group and one person has done the same procedure on Instagram.
Challenge in the project:
The biggest challenge that we face in our project on how to convince those people who don’t have to understand them. They not ready to leave them all old meaningless traditions. They think that if they vaccinate your child they do a great sin with your hands.
Conclusion:

As a human being, we took a serious step to overcoming this problem, and disease like polio, hepatitis B etc. We can put us all efforts to achieve this goal. As a Pakistani, we should contribute on a prosperity of happy Pakistan. Best of luck to change your views for the progress of their child and country as well. Through this project, we have done a little effort to give the right that they will be a part of a learning classroom.
