Save Rural Afghan Women & Children With Healthcare
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Summary
Support 3 clinics for 12,000 patients monthly in rural areas of Afghanistan with no other health services. These clinics provide medical services and prevent disease through health education.
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Received $12,544 from 67 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Afghan women and children suffer from poverty, disease, and malnutrition with no access to health care. Rural Afghans live in isolation with no hospitals nearby. They are too poor to pay for health care or transportation to the nearest health facility when a loved one gets sick. Every day mothers and babies die while giving birth at home. Lack of knowledge about hygiene and other personal health concerns as well as myths and superstitions perpetuate unhealthy choices and cost lives.
Activities
CHI/AIL support 3 rural health clinics that serve over 6,000 patients a month with medical exams, laboratory analysis, nutrition services, vaccinations, midwifery, pharmacy, minor surgery, dentistry, health education and family planning.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $12,544
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $55,656
Total Funding Goal: $68,200
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
These clinics provide health care and health education to over 200,000 people a year with no other access to services. Health care saves lives and health education prevents future sickness by teaching people practical strategies for protecting health
Project Message
Some people don’t use water in the latrine. Others don’t breastfeed children when they’re sick. Through health education, people learn that these actions are harmful and change their actions.
- Jawied, clinic staff
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 22, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 29, 2005.
Latest Update from the Field
Stories to Share
By Alison Hendry - Administrative Assistant, August 22, 2008 01:25 PM
Following is a story as reported by a female nurse at one of AIL’s clinics about a woman that came to the clinic for treatment after being injured while working with her husband on their house.
One day in early July a woman was brought to the clinic by her husband and her mother. The woman said “My husband was building rooms on our house this morning, and I was helping when suddenly a brick dropped on my head, and my head was broken. My mother put black tea on the wound area to stop the bleeding, but the bleeding did not stop. My husband brought me to the clinic.”
A female nurse dressed the injured area with anti-septic liquid and then sent the woman to the OPD room for examination and advised her to come to the clinic to have her dressings changed every other day. The OPD doctors asked her about her mental condition (did she have vomiting or vertigo), and she had no problems. She was in good condition, and was then discharged from the clinic. The woman and her family thanked AIL and the health staff.
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