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Improving Community Health in Ho, Ghana
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Summary
We aim to build the capacity of the HOPE Center by creating a diagnosic pathology lab to more accurately diagnose and treat disease, and a community nutrition project to reduce child malnutrition.
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Received $5,248 from 136 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The community of Ho, Ghana has very little access to high quality medical care. We seek to address this by expanding the services provided at the HOPE Center to include a pathology lab which will allow rapid and accurate diagnosis of a wider range of common infections.
Also, a recent study has shown that 45% of children under the age of 5 in the Ho region are under weight for their height. As an intervention, we seek to establish a community nutrition program including a demonstration farm.
Activities
The medical lab will allow the diagnosis of a broader range of diseases at the clinic, and fewer patients will have to be referred to far away hospitals. The nutrition project will focus on training local mothers to prepare well balanced meals.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $5,248
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $6,752
Total Funding Goal: $12,000
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
This project will improve the quality of clinical care through the diagnostic lab, and will reduce child malnutrition in Ho, from 45% to 15%, over the next five years.
Project Message
I'm really thrilled to inform you and all the students who helped to make the nutrition project a reality that finally the project has been launched today at the center.I cant wait but share the joy.
- Margaret Asante, Head Nurse of The HOPE Center
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 April 25, 2008.
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