Healthcare for 350,000 in Troubled Eastern DRC

Summary

Providing people in remote regions with basic healthcare and help for those assaulted, abused, and left homeless by ongoing insecurity. IMC focuses on women and children, who are suffering the most. read updates from the field

How You Can Help

Make a donation
	$21 - Can give 7 families mosquito nets to prevent deadly malaria. Prevent for $3 what costs $15 to treat.
	$50 - Can provide a community with one month of health education about preventable diseases.
	$100 - Can protect pregnant women and their infants with emergency obstetric care at one clinic for two months.
	$400 - Can ensure immunizations for children and women by covering costs at one clinic for a full month.
	$1,000 - Can sponsor a health clinic for one month by covering its operating costs.
	$3,000 - Can sponsor a five-day intensive training of 35 health workers in subjects including vaccination.
	$71,071 - Will fully fund this project
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Received $3,929 from 49 donations from people like:

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

IMC is the ONLY international NGO in the three health zones where we work, densely forested areas where some villages can only be reached on foot. The health needs here are overwhelming. IMC's highly regarded programs address malnutrition, displacement, malaria, preventable diseases like polio, HIV/AIDS, poor infrastructure, lack of medicines, and a growing epidemic of sexual and gender-based violence, including thousands of rapes and attacks on young, elderly, pregnant, and married women.

Activities

IMC supports 59 health facilities in eastern DRC. We provide medicines, training, and direct services to patients. Our approach is effective because we seek sustainability; for instance, rather than hand out food we women to grow local crops.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $3,929
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $71,071
Total Funding Goal: $75,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

DRC is a rapidly evolving environment with the potential for great change. IMC's programs are bringing communities up to basic levels of healthcare delivery and subsistence so that they may empower themselves to survive and prepare for the future.

Project Message

Despite the July 30th election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and hopes that stability will finally be realized, serious humanitarian needs will remain.
- Birame Sarr, IMC Country Director for DRC

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Gita Wenaweser,
Resource Development Officer
1919 Santa Monica Boulevard
#400
Santa Monica, CA 90404
United States
3108267800
Email:

Project Sponsor

International Medical Corps

Organization

International Medical Corps (IMC)
1919 Santa Monica Boulevard
#400
Santa Monica, CA 90404
United States
310.826.7800
http://www.imcworldwide.org

Learn more about International Medical Corps (IMC) and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Congo, Democratic Republic of the and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Congo, Democratic Republic of the, read the Human Development Report on Congo, Democratic Republic of the or the Wikipedia entry for Congo, Democratic Republic of the.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 13, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 24, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Health in the Heart of a Crisis

By Stacey Freeman - Director of Resource Development, February 13, 2007 04:13 PM

IMC has been supporting 59 health centers in three remote health zones in eastern DRC: Itebero, Bunyakiri, and Kalonge. Unfortunately, three of these health centers were temporarily rendered inaccessible due to conditions on the ground--an apt example of how instability in DRC prevents residents from accessing even the most basic services.

This instability, along with poor development, limited education, rudimentary sanitation, and environmental factors, has resulted in dangerous outbreaks of disease. Each day, the Congolese people must confront conditions including malaria, respiratory infections, anemia, water born diseases, tuberculosis, leprosy, HIV/AIDS, and severe malnutrition--not to mention horrifying levels of sexual violence perpetrated mainly against women and young girls.

IMC is making life better for the residents of DRC's Kivu Provinces by providing primary health care, therapeutic feeding, treatment and prevention of sexual violence, and--most importantly--essential skills training for local health workers. These medical professionals face working conditions most of us can't imagine. They are underresourced and lack opportunities for education and advancement. However, they also are eager to learn from IMC's staff how they can do their jobs better--and save more lives as a result.

This program is a great example of IMC's commitment to leave something behind wherever we go--whether it be trained health workers, cadres of knowledgeable community volunteers, new health centers, or even jobs.

Your donations mean the world to us and to those we support in DRC.

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