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Health Care and Water for 7,000 Gambians
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Summary
To provide African people in isolated communities with a means to access healthcare when it is needed; to be treated at home; to aid irrigation thereby improving nutrition and increasing income.
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Received $7,180 from 78 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
For Africa to develop, communities as well as large institutions need access to reliable mechanical transportation. Without it, people in impoverished, isolated communities cannot access medical care when they need it, in an emergency or for regular treatment. They cannot benefit from regional home-based care programs. Without basic medical assistance, pregnant women die in their communities from obstructed labor. The Uhuru will bring benefit to all 7,000 members of each typical community.
Activities
Training women from the community in skillful riding and daily maintenance procedures, operating the unit with a stretcher/motherhood chair or adapting the motorcycle rear wheel to pump water and irrigate land. The trailer can carry crops to market.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $7,180
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $12,820
Total Funding Goal: $20,000
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
Reduction in mortality rates, especially maternal. Improvements in health. Patients taking part in home-based cure programs. Untimely death prevented by speedy access to medical aid. Cultivation and nutrition improved, and extra income earned.
Project Message
The health center has no telephone to communicate with our ambulances so the availability of the Uhuru is a great relief. We send people to call the Uhuru and transport our patients to [the] hospital.
- Ms B Zuvaradoka, Sister-in-charge, Sangano Clinic, Makoni District
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on April 28, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 28, 2005.
Latest Update from the Field
Riders Gambia Update, May 2008
By Rachel Harrington - Fundraising and Communications Manager, April 28, 2008 04:04 PM
World Malaria Day on April 25th was a stark reminder that this easily-preventable diseases continues to claim millions of lives every year.
By making sure that health workers can reach even the most remote communities on a regular basis, Riders for Health ensures that simple measures like bednets reach the people who need them most, helping to prevent the spread of malaria.
Download the feedback report below to find out more about how your donations are helping Riders to fight malaria in the Gambia.
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