Health Care and Water for 7,000 Gambians
Water in Africa
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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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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: $8,342
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $11,658
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
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Andrea Coleman
Chief Executive Officer - Finance
3 New Street
Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11 4BT
United Kingdom
+ 44 (0) 1327 300047
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Riders for Health
3 New Street
Daventry,
Northamptonshire
NN11 4BT
United Kingdom
+ 44 (0) 1327 300047
http://www.riders.org
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Gambia, The
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Gambia, The, read the Human Development Report on Gambia, The or the Wikipedia entry for Gambia, The.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on April 23, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 28, 2005
Latest Update from the Field
Riders for Health report, Kankurang Uhuru April 2009
By Astrid Jenkinson - Fundraising Officer, April 23, 2009 11:38 AM
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