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Project Helping Hand |
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ASI Ghana NGO |
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A project of the African Scientific Institute |
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Funding
Needs for
(A Fundraising Project of the African
Scientific Institute) Requested Funding Needs for Stage Two: US$ 380,000 Contact Person:
Carlos
Kimathi E-mail: Kimathi@hotmail.com
ASI’s
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The ASI-Malaria Travel Clinic Project, is a fundraising project of the African Scientific Institute’s (ASI) Ghana Division. The overall purpose of the Project is to provide urgently needed malaria education, prevention, consultation and proper treatment to Ghanaian residents especially pregnant women and children under age five and to short and long-term international travellers to Ghana. Malaria remains the largest killer of children in Ghana, taking a toll of approximately 20,000 child deaths, every year. Maternal and infant mortality resulting from Malaria in Ghana is one of the highest in West Africa with a ratio of about 200 child deaths in 1,000 births. More than 17 million of Ghana’s 21 million people including the active workforce are infected by malaria every year. Ghana’s health system, at present, is ill-equipped to deal with the malaria crisis, even with the government’s recent introduction of socialized healthcare. The ASI Malaria Travel Clinic Project is be structured under two complementing components or Stages, as follows: · The Malaria Travel Clinic (Stage One) · Malaria Outreach Campaigns ( Stage Two) The expected impact after a three-year intervention will include a significant reduction in malaria related deaths in women and children, establishment of a state of the art and well-resourced Malaria Travel Clinic to provide malaria prevention and treatment services to foreigners to Ghana including diplomats, tourists and health-conscious corporate investors. This will enhance Ghana’s image abroad as a safe destination with the reduction of incidence of ‘imported malaria’. There will also be an increased growth on the tourism sector to boost economic growth. Employment opportunities will be created for Ghanaians as a result of the interventions. There will also be a significant reduction in costs for treating malaria at the corporate and public sector level to enable the reallocation of resources to other productive areas. First Stage a Success! The First–Stage of the project was initiated in May 2008, through the collaboration of a Ghanaian physician, along with ASI’s Healthcare Director for the Ghana Division, Carlos Kimathi and his wife Margo. The ground work for Stage One of the project took most of the couple’s hard earned savings to secure an office, electrical renovations, plumbing updates, painting, furnishings, clinic equipment / supplies and the required licenses and permits. The hard work and the overcoming of multiple challenges, paid-off as the Stage One of the ASI-Malaria Travel Clinic Project was realized as the clinic opened its doors for services on 1st February 2009, in the Dzorwulu area of Ghana’s capital city of Accra.
Funding Needed The site for Stage Two of the ASI-Malaria Travel Clinic will house the administrative division of Project Helping Hand, the clinic , outreach operations and student nursing staff and a Lab. Malaria education and prevention workshops, seminars and trainings will be provided for those Ghanaians, especially mothers and children, who cannot afford to pay for these services, from this Stage Two site.
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