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Solar electricity for Burmese medical clinic

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Summary

The clinic serves about 13 villages on both sides of Thai/Burma border. The solar electric system will power a vaccine refrigerator, microscope and operation lights, and more for 5 full time medics. project reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Currently, there is no power grid or electrical infrastructure to serve the population or the clinic. Several thousand people will be direct beneficiaries, being able to receive medical care day or night. There will be about 5 - 6 full time medics at any given time at the clinic. Today they have to rely on flashlight at night, cannot store or provide vaccines, or positively identify diseases.

Activities

Technical design is complete. Local partner BGET will procure the equipment, help install it, and train the medics in the installation, operation and maintenance of the system. The communities will provide unskilled construction labor.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $366
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $14,634
Total Funding Goal: $15,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Medical personnel in the clinic will be able to properly attend to the basic medical needs of the 13 villages, including vaccination, malaria treatment, parasitic diseases, births, and amputations due to mines and the ongoing civil war in the

Project Message

" It is difficult to perform amputations by flashlight."
- Eh Kalu Shwe Oo, Director, Karen Department of Health and Welfare

Who is Running This Project

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Michel Maupoux
Program Manager
140SW Yamhill st
Portland, Oregon 97204
United States
503-284-5774
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Project Sponsor

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Organization

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Green Empowerment
140 SW Yahmill Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
United States
503-284-5774
http://www.greenempowerment.org

Learn more about Green Empowerment and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in MyanmarMyanmar and can also be found under EnvironmentEnvironment.

For more information about Myanmar, read the Human Development Report on Myanmar or the Wikipedia entry for Myanmar.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 8, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 2, 2009

Latest Update from the Field

Clinic completion report

By Michel Maupoux - Program Manager, February 08, 2010 10:34 AM

Thanks to generous donors and our partners on the ground, the clinic installation was completed in November 2009.
We plan to continue on to another similar project in 2010. Stay tuned for further details

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