Save 1000 Children At Risk From Malaria in Ghana

Another impact in the Amanful community due to the magnanimous donations received through the Global Giving web donation platform.

 Hoops Care has successfully helped 250 children to be register under the national health insurance scheme, NHIS. This is a milestone! After series of meetings with the scheme staff in Cape Coast, it was agreed upon that the children can be register without their parents being register first. This was excellent news as it will cost much to have their mothers register before we can o the same for them. Taking advantage of this new development, we decided to pre-register 100 children from the community. It was necessary to be certain that those doing the registration will not attend to less than said number as it is the bench mark to have them do registration outside of the office. By the close of the first day of pre-registration we decided to increase the number to 150 after which we inform the NHIS that we were ready and Tuesday, was given. On that day, the NHIS staff we occupied at a previous registration and had to postpone ours for the next day, the 21st of November. Some mothers did not take this lightly as they had to take their wards away from school for the day to be able to get registered. We talked to them and were able to convince them that the next day it will come on.

 On Wednesday as early as 6am there was already a line in front of our office! We then made available chairs and canopies for them at the community center point. At 9am registration began and you could see the excitement and joy in the mother faces. "I will not have to worry again about hospital bills," said Ama, a mother of three who came to have her children benefit. Due to the large numbers, the exercise continued the next day and we also decide to increase the number of beneficiary to 250!

 At this juncture, we would like to thank all donors for saving so many children. We only ask and plead that you continue to support this project with any little funds you can spare.

 Currently, we are securing bed nets to have these children, some of whom who still do not have. We are also started to meet with the captains of the various malaria clubs in our partner schools for a workshop. A community malaria event is slated for next month as well as sport events in soccer and basketball which is gear towards educating on usage of nets both at home and on sports grounds. Nets are use for basketball hoop and goal posts!

 We will keep you updated on all these events and futures innovations we come up with in the fight to #endmalaria in Ghana.

 Best regards.

Links:

• October Newsletter

• List of children register (PDF)
  

On behalf of Hoops Care I would like to take this opportunity to thank all donors, those current and future for believing not only in the organization but also knowing that we will deliver what we set out to do.

 We are very excited that the fundraiser yielded much needed fund to jump the project in saving 1000 children at risk from malaria on its way to achieving its goals.

 I would also seize this opportunity to update you on how your funds are presently been utilize.

 Contact has been made with the Manager of the Health Insurance Scheme regarding how we can better have more beneficiary register under the NHIS. We were glad to know that we will not need to register the mothers first before registering their wards! With this information it means that we can maximize the funds and register more children. With the new regulations we can register 6 children with $15!!!!!

 So we are therefore going for it and presently as of today, we have pre-register the first 150 children to benefit from your donations. We have also purchased mosquito nets which will be given to the first group of registrants until it runs out. Sourcing mosquito nets currently is a challenge as we need about $3000 to get it as wholesale, so currently we can only go for it at retail prices.

 Kindly note that we are executing the programs according to you the donor specification. The workshop and malaria clubs meetings are currently been discuss and we will update you once we have the schedule dates for them.

 Once again thank you for your donation but please note that we still need to cover more children for registration and bed nets. We are still receiving donations through the GG site and the short link remains http://goto.gg/10987

 We are praying that you can become a recurring donor of at least $10 a month which will go a long way in saving a lot of children lives here not only in the communities we work in but in brining up future healthy leaders. The lives we safe can turn out to be someone we love or will safe ours tomorrow.

 Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless You.

Links:

• pre-registration video