Improve Medical Services

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Summary

This project will improve services for leukemia and thalassemia patients at a recently renovated medical clinic.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $1,000 was raised for this project.

Received $1,000 from 7 donations from people like:

John
(Anon.)

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Thalassemia and leukemia are blood diseases that affect thousands of Iraqis. A Thalassemia Center and Blood Bank is currently being rehabilitated, however the need to change public perceptions of these diseases and of blood donations remains unfulfilled.

Activities

This project will fund advertising and promotional costs for a campaign to increase awareness about blood diseases and the importance of blood donations.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,000

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $1,000.  The original project funding goal was $1,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project aims at improving local knowledge about thalassemia and leukemia, as well as increasing the number of blood donors in the project area.

Project Message

Thalassemia patients need regular access to more blood than currently available in this facility. With this project, we hope to increase blood donations to meet the demand for transfusions.
- Anonymous, Project Leader

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Greg Howell,
Global Development Alliance Advisor
US Agency for International Development
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20523-1000
United States
202-216-6276 x1043
Email:

Project Sponsor

USAID

Organization

Mercy Corps
3015 SW First Ave.
Portland, OR 97201
United States
503.796.6800
http://www.mercycorps.org

Learn more about Mercy Corps and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Iraq and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Iraq, read the Human Development Report on Iraq or the Wikipedia entry for Iraq.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 01, 2005.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 11, 2005.

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