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Health care for 30,000 slum residents in Mali

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Health care for 30,000 slum residents in Mali

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Summary

This project will be provide 35% of the funding and technical consulting to catalyze a sustainable slum clinic for maternal and child health for 30,000 people. read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $14,627 was raised for this project.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Despite being part of a city, many of the residents of Sikoro are three kilometers from a paved road, and equally distant from water or medical care. Women often give birth on the side of the road on the way to the clinic, and one in four children dies before age 5 (DHS). There are over 30,000 people living in this area. A community-run clinic that also works on public health (mosquito nets, vaccination) is a socially appropriate and accessible way fuel for development.

Activities

We will provide 35% of funding, furnishings, and supplies. We will help the community clinic board to fundraise the remaining 65% locally, legalize their committee, train personnel, and permanently run the clinic from user fees and gov't funding.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $14,627

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $14,627 . The original project funding goal was $14,472.

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

The project will create a selt-sustaining clinic to improve health outcomes by providing health and maternal care to 30,000 slum residents. This will improve well being, livelihoods, and the community's ability to create healthcare change!

Project Message

We are a poor neighborhood…but our poverty does not equate with powerlessness...When a child dies in your arms you ask what you did wrong. We will make this clinic happen because we need it to happen.
- Fatoumata Diaby, Elected clinic leadership committee member

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Caitlin Cohen
US Coordinator
PO Box 20
5413 US Route 5
Westminster Station, Vermont 05159
United States
802 722 4029
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organization

Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP)
PO Box 20 5413 US Route 5
Westminster Station, Vermont 5159
United States
802 722 4029
http://www.malihealth.org

Learn more about Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP) and the project team.

Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP)'s Current Projects on GlobalGiving

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Mali and can also be found under Health.

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 27, 2007

Latest Update from the Field

MHOP lays the first brick of our clinic and health innovation trial center!

By Caitlin Cohen - Executive Director, December 23, 2008 11:20 PM

This Saturday, December 20th, MHOP laid the first brick of our community clinic to serve the residents of Sourakabougou and residents of four other slum neighborhoods to the north east of Bamako, Mali. The brick-laying was nationally televised in Mali by ORTM (the Malian Office of Radio and Television). The launch was attended by all the town dignitaries, representatives of the mayor's office, the US Embassy, and the various health structures in Bamako.

Located several kilometers from paved road, but right next to the market and school in Sourakabougou, our clinic is located to maximize accessibility to the least served residents of the city. Additionally, we are forging partnerships with the FENASCOM (national association of community clinics) and the Millennium Development Goals Center of West and Central Africa to use our clinic as an innovation trial site for new health financing, leader-training, and clinical care protocols.

Thank you to every donor who has made this happen, the Government of Mali, Liz and Malcolm Chace, the US Ambassador's special Self-Help Fund, and the Peace Corps (Sara Rosen). Thank you especially to the residents of Sikoro/Sourakabougou who have given thousands of hours of work to create their own health system, our Malian director, and our many interns.

The clinic will be constructed in three phases:

Phase 1: 6-room clinic (Opening in April, 2009)

Phase 2: 6-room maternity, child health center, and external compound. (December, 2009)

Phase 3: Soccer field, nutritional support garden, and outdoor education center. (March, 2010)

When it is fully operational, we anticipate roughly 50,000 visits per year.

THANK YOU!

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