Project Helping Hand

	The African Scientific Institute (ASI) is an international non-governmental. non-profit scientific/educational organisation based in Oakland. California. USA. since 1967. ASI is registered as an NGO in Ghana. What is Project Helping Hand? Project Helping Hand is a project designed to help, assist and support Ghana's Remaining healthcare practitioners, health/ medical faculty, healthcare students, healthcare institutions (hospitals, clinics, etc.) How will "Project Helping Hand" Help, Assist and Support? By Helping . . . . . - Clinics and hospitals to replace unreliable electrical power , with solar power. - Physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers to obtain modern, appropriate medical supplies, equipment/ instruments - healthcare students with reference texts, supplies, financial aid, career counseling. - To conduct Safe Water Treatment and Sanitation workshops and classes By Assisting . . . . . - To arrange clinical exchanges for foreign medical students with Ghanaian facilities - In developing tangible incentives for Ghana’s Existing healthcare practitioners, i.e., housing, overtime pay, transport to and from work site, continuing education and free meals. - Physicians, nurses and other healthcarewith the utilization of Information Technology, i.e., computer ownership, training, palm pilots, software application classes, etc. By Supporting . . . . - infrastructure projects to close "open street gutters," on hospital/clinic grounds and roads to stop the spread of disease, garbage dumping, mosquitoes, accidents, etc. - medical lab students in starting and managing their own Lab Services Businesses Ghana's Healthcare Brain -Drain Some districts in Ghana have No physicians or nurses Ghana has been. and still is grappling with a brain-drain of physicians, nurses. medical technicians. pharmacists and other healthcare professionals, Thousands have left Ghana to work in Australia. Britain. Canada and the United States to escape low-pay and poor working conditions in Ghana. Ghana's Remaining Healthcare Workers Because of the shortages of healthcare worrkers, the health delivery system is in shambles. The saviors of Ghana's dying healthcare delivery efforts are it's Remaining Healthcare Professionals. These dedicated individuals and their fami1ies deserve and need your help! They suffer from excessive workloads, low-pay, delayed-pay, job burn-out, stressful working conditions (lack of medical supplies and equipment. water, and electrical outages), low morale, no retirement plans, depression, the lack of housing and transportation, and the loss hope for a better future! Your Monetary Donations are Needed Make a Difference



	Lend a Hand to Ghana’s Remaining Healthcare Practitioners Institutions Students and their families
	The African Scientific Institute (ASI) ASI - Ghana Project Helping Hand Carlos Kimathi, Managing Director The African Scientific Institute (ASI) Ghana NGO No. G.17,561 PMB KA 73 Airport Accra - Ghana Tel: 027-6849631 Email: Kimathi@hotmail
	USA DIVISION Ghana Project Helping Hand The African Scientific Institute P.O. Box 12161 Oakland, CA. 94604 - USA Tel: 1-866-305-2593, Fax: (831) 751-6762 Email: kimathi@hotmail.com Make Donations to African Scientific Institute attn: Ghana Project Helping Hand

Project Helping Hand

A Ghana NGO
A project of the African Scientific Institute