By working together, each family receives the moral support necessary to accomplish their dream. The movement from the temporary shelter to a home provides a sense of security and well-being. Improving sanitation is another important use of merry go rounds funds or small loans. Having one's own toilet is not only an enhancement to family health, but to dignity as well. It's effects are normally seen in physical symptoms, such as large stomachs, thin shoulders, undersize and underweight children and in prevalence of common illnesses such as diarrhoea, colds and sores that take long to heal.
Malnutrition is caused by lack of proper food.
Within poor communities the most common foodsource is one that is extremely high in carbohydrates, but lacking in protein, vitamins and minerals. This lack of variety results in serious diseases including scurvy, rickets, marasmus and kwashiorkor. Part of the problem is lack of knowledge of the human body. One of the first steps in education of parents in nutrition is to enable them to diagnose the nutritional status of their own children. The most common way of doing this is to weigh children between the ages of one month and six years and compare this weight with normal weights of children world-wide.