← home / Tools / ChildCount+⚙● toolChildCount+Practices that use itChildCount+ in Sauri (Millennium Villages Project)SMS-based mHealth tool (built on RapidSMS, open source, GPL license) piloted since 2009 in Sauri, Siaya County, within the Earth Institute's (Columbia) Millennium Villages Project: community health workers registered by text the status of every child under 5 and pregnant woman (CMAM malnutrition, malaria, immunization, pregnancy monitoring and antenatal appointments), with automatic alerts and reminders. Handsets provided by Sony Ericsson (2009) and a toll-free number with Airtel Kenya. It ended with the closure of the MVP in 2015; the village was not prepared to sustain operations independently.● Discontinued· scale local
