AID cooperative agreement no. FAO-0500-A-00-3029-00 with Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in support of its proposals, entitled `Child survival project, Kavrepalanchok District, Kingdom of Nepal" and `Child survival project, Nsanje District, Malawi", dated December 8, 1992, as amended

In Nepal, ADRA will work with Ministry of Health personnel to train district Public Health Office staff and community health and traditional birth attendant volunteers to improve child survival services and provide literacy and health education for women in the Northeast Kavre District. A district family planning center will be opened in Banepa. Activities will target malnutrition, acute respiratory infection, diarrheal disease, vitamin A deficiency, neonatal tetanus, low birth weight, birth injuries, premature birth, and congenital abnormalities. Potential beneficiaries total 77,000, including 4,700 children under 1, 24,000 children under 5, and almost 48,000 women. In Malawi, ADRA will implement a program encompassing nutrition/vitamin A, growth monitoring, family planning, AIDS prevention, oral rehydration therapy, Expanded Program of Immunization, and malaria treatment in the northern half of Nsanje District. Potential beneficiaries total almost 62,000, including 30,000 children under 5, 4,200 children 5-6, and 27,000 women.