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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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: $18,255
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $49,945
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
Who is Running This Project
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Toc Dunlap
President
Creating Hope International
PO Box 1058
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
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Organization
Creating Hope International (CHI)
Creating Hope International
PO Box 1058
Dearborn,
Michigan
48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
http://www.creatinghope.org
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Where this Project is Located
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Afghanistan
and can also be found under 
Children.
For more information about Afghanistan, read the Human Development Report on Afghanistan or the Wikipedia entry for Afghanistan.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on June 15, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 29, 2005
Latest Update from the Field
May 2009 Update
By Alison Hendry - Administrative Assistant, May 15, 2009 02:04 PM
“From this workshop I have learned many new things and plan to implement them in my life. I have learned that it is important for a mother to try and prevent herself from getting sick since prevention is better than curing a sickness. I plan to implement the preventions I’ve learned in my life and teach it to my children.”
“I did not vaccinate my child because I did not think it was important, but now I will do it as soon as I leave the workshop. Now I understand how important it is for my child’s health.”
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