Healthy Land, Healthy People


	Our “Healthy Communities, Healthy Ecosystems” partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) links healthy environment and the health of local people. “Supporting the health of local communities enables these communities to sustainably manage the natural resources base on which they depend,” said Katarina Trojnar, corporate relations officer at WWF. In many remote places where WWF works, few other organizations are present, making the WWF’s work vital for building awareness of the links between a healthy environment and the health of the people who live there. Since 2003, we have supported innovative “Healthy Communities, Healthy Ecosystems” projects in ecoregions of the East Africa, the Congo Basin, and the Eastern Himalayas. Collaborating in Kenya The East Africa Marine Ecoregion stretches several hundred miles and is home to a great diversity of plant and animal life, including some of the most diverse coral communities in the world. Native villagers live off the land. One example of our partnership takes place in Kenya’s Kiunga Marine National Reserve where WWF works to promote health interventions and improved and expanded health resources, including supporting efforts in reproductive health, family planning, HIV/AIDS, immunizations, preventive care, safe drinking water, and sanitation. The reserve contains coral reefs, sea grass meadows, and mangrove forests that act as a refuge for marine wildlife. Reserve resources are threatened, and a further increase in population under current conditions will make matters worse. Progress in the Last Year Over the last year, our partnership with WWF has made significant advances in promoting environmental conservation by improving human health. For example, a dispensary clinic for communities in the reserve was constructed to help improve community health and encourage local participation in natural resource management. The dispensary also provides safe drinking water in the reserve’s main villages. Additionally, residents are learning about family planning options from newly trained health care workers from the Ministry of Health and Family Health International. Mobile clinics are reaching villages that have no access to quality health care, and people are receiving prenatal and postnatal care, immunizations, nutritional counseling and education about environmental health and conservation efforts.

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Healthy Land, Healthy People

	Our “Healthy Communities, Healthy Ecosystems” partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) links healthy environment and the health of local people. “Supporting the health of local communities enables these communities to sustainably manage the natural resources base on which they depend,” said Katarina Trojnar, corporate relations officer at WWF. In many remote places where WWF works, few other organizations are present, making the WWF’s work vital for building awareness of the links between a healthy environment and the health of the people who live there. Since 2003, we have supported innovative “Healthy Communities, Healthy Ecosystems” projects in ecoregions of the East Africa, the Congo Basin, and the Eastern Himalayas. Collaborating in Kenya The East Africa Marine Ecoregion stretches several hundred miles and is home to a great diversity of plant and animal life, including some of the most diverse coral communities in the world. Native villagers live off the land. One example of our partnership takes place in Kenya’s Kiunga Marine National Reserve where WWF works to promote health interventions and improved and expanded health resources, including supporting efforts in reproductive health, family planning, HIV/AIDS, immunizations, preventive care, safe drinking water, and sanitation. The reserve contains coral reefs, sea grass meadows, and mangrove forests that act as a refuge for marine wildlife. Reserve resources are threatened, and a further increase in population under current conditions will make matters worse. Progress in the Last Year Over the last year, our partnership with WWF has made significant advances in promoting environmental conservation by improving human health. For example, a dispensary clinic for communities in the reserve was constructed to help improve community health and encourage local participation in natural resource management. The dispensary also provides safe drinking water in the reserve’s main villages. Additionally, residents are learning about family planning options from newly trained health care workers from the Ministry of Health and Family Health International. Mobile clinics are reaching villages that have no access to quality health care, and people are receiving prenatal and postnatal care, immunizations, nutritional counseling and education about environmental health and conservation efforts.

Our “Healthy Communities, Healthy Ecosystems” partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) links healthy environment and the health of local people. “Supporting the health of local communities enables these communities to sustainably manage the natural resources base on which they depend,” said Katarina Trojnar, corporate relations officer at WWF.

In many remote places where WWF works, few other organizations are present, making the WWF’s work vital for building awareness of the links between a healthy environment and the health of the people who live there. Since 2003, we have supported innovative “Healthy Communities, Healthy Ecosystems” projects in ecoregions of the East Africa, the Congo Basin, and the Eastern Himalayas.

Collaborating in Kenya
The East Africa Marine Ecoregion stretches several hundred miles and is home to a great diversity of plant and animal life, including some of the most diverse coral communities in the world. Native villagers live off the land.

One example of our partnership takes place in Kenya’s Kiunga Marine National Reserve where WWF works to promote health interventions and improved and expanded health resources, including supporting efforts in reproductive health, family planning, HIV/AIDS, immunizations, preventive care, safe drinking water, and sanitation. The reserve contains coral reefs, sea grass meadows, and mangrove forests that act as a refuge for marine wildlife. Reserve resources are threatened, and a further increase in population under current conditions will make matters worse.

Progress in the Last Year
Over the last year, our partnership with WWF has made significant advances in promoting environmental conservation by improving human health. For example, a dispensary clinic for communities in the reserve was constructed to help improve community health and encourage local participation in natural resource management. The dispensary also provides safe drinking water in the reserve’s main villages. Additionally, residents are learning about family planning options from newly trained health care workers from the Ministry of Health and Family Health International. Mobile clinics are reaching villages that have no access to quality health care, and people are receiving prenatal and postnatal care, immunizations, nutritional counseling and education about environmental health and conservation efforts.

Employees