Join Shifo in celebrating visible impact on “Kanelbulle(ns) dag”

Shifo celebrates Kanelbullens Dag (Day of the Cinnamon roll) and the one year birthday of our tracking and reporting System “Kanelbulle” tomorrow, 4th October 2014. Kanelbulle connects Shifo donors and supporters with the activities in the field and allows us to share project progress and real-time impact in a transparent manner. Join us today on our first and Sweden's 15th "Kanelbullens Dag" to help improve health service delivery and save lives in underserved areas. 

Last year Shifo started to develop a system that would connect donors and supporters with the communities they support. We wanted to ensure that the Shifo community would receive an easily accessible report telling the story of the project, showing how the funds were spent and make it possible for the supporting community to follow the long-term impact of the project in real time. Our tracking and reporting system was born. Naming it, however, seemed to be the biggest challenge.

At Shifo, we had an internal brainstorming session on names that would express clarity and transparency, impact and partnership, community, insight and involvement. We got nowhere! The ideas we had simply did not express our love for this system. Finally, our developer Andrey threw in the wild card “Kanelbulle”, naming the system after his favourite “fikabröd” (= pastry. In Swedish “Fika” means coffee with pastry/bun). Somehow, we could all relate to the love for Kanelbullen, and since that day we have more than one reason to celebrate Kanelbullens Dag at Shifo.

Check out the first report generated from the “Kanelbulle” System that was produced in connection with the completed implementation of eHealth information and support system in the Mukono-District, Uganda. It was sent out to the supporting community during the spring of 2014 and is available online at www.shifo.org/impact. At the top of the page you can follow real-time indicators of number of children registered and number of children fully vaccinated. The latter is an indicator suggested by GAVI-the Global Alliance on Vaccine and Immunisation in the post-2015 development agenda that will take over after the Millennium Development Goals. A fully vaccinated child is protected against the most deadly childhood diseases and provides a better chance to grow up strong and healthy.

Currently, 1 in 5 children globally are not fully vaccinated. In low-income countries like Uganda  only  half of the children are fully vaccinated and half of the children lack the important protection from deadly childhood diseases. Shifo implements MyChild System -information and support system-to strengthen health service delivery and ensure that all children are followed up until they are fully vaccinated. MyChild System supports the delivery of all preventive health services the child is officially entitled to and tracks important information on the child's early development.  

For the price of 4 kanelbullar each months - 100 SEK (Euro 11/USD 14) you can become a monthly donor and support the implementation of MyChild System in other regions and countries. On our donation page you can chose to pay by credit card, PayPal or if you are in Sweden through bankgiro (cost free transactions) http://shifo.org/donate/. Together we can make it happen! Every Child Counts!

Have a great Kanelbulle(ns) dag!

The Shifo Team

PSI: If you would like to try out making the Swedish Kanelbulle here is a recipe.

PSII: If your birthday is coming up you can use it to help raise money for improving health services in developing countries.  We all did last year! -and we had fun doing it. Check out for example Nargis' birthday campaign