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Many children get little education or healthcare. This little girl is eating her daily rice and beans.
All projects are staffed by local healthcare providers with US doctors, nurses, pediatric residents and medical students spending a month or more to provide additional medical care and training as needed.
Kenya
Dunga Children's Clinic and Rota Dispensary - Dunga is a very poor fishing village of 4000 people located on the banks of Lake Victoria. There are currently 1600 orphans in this small town, many afflicted with HIV and other tropical diseases. These children are in desperate need of medical care. The Dunga Children's Clinic is staffed by a part-time nurse and a full-time clinical officer who is licensed to examine, vaccinate, diagnose, and treat illnesses in children. In addition, doctors and nurses from the US can spend a month at a time to provide additional medical care. Desperately ill children who cannot be supported in this clinic will be transported to the regional hospital in nearby Kisumu. The Dunga clinic opened on August 1, 2007 and is seeing approximately 30 to 40 patients per day.
In 2010, we moved the clinic for both political and access reasons to Rota - down the road from Dunga. The Rota Dispensary serves an area of 50,000 inhabitants in the Kisumu area and serves as the flagship dispensary for the Kisumu minitry of Health. The current site is operated by the Rota Village, the Ministry of Health, and Humanity for Children. It is housed in 2 buildings and serves over 50 people daily from the community. The site is growing with the MoH building a maternity and pedaitric inpatient ward in 2011.
Rwanda
We have several projects in Rwanda, the biggest of which is a Children's and Mothers' Polyclinic which will be located in Karama in the Rwanda's Ngoma District. The clinic is being built with funds raised by the community of Fulton Missouri and Callaway County, which has joined with Kibungo as their Sister City. Fundraising for the project kicked off in September 2008 raised 90,000 USD over a year. The clinic is currently 75% complete and we are initiating a large fundraising drive in early 2011 to raise the final 30,000 USD to complete this site. Funds from our Spring Seattle fundraiser will go toward this purpose. We hope to finish this building project this summer and give the buildingto the Anglican Church and District Government to use for a Women's and Children's Health Center - the first in Rwanda.
In Gashanda Rwanda, a Health Post opened in February of 2011 which will serve the entire community of 28,000. There are no other health facilities in this sector, so this will enable the people there to have access to healthcare, where now they have to walk 8-12 hours to see a doctor. The clinic site is across the street from a school and was being donated to HFC by the Rwandan government. This site employees 2 nurses, a laboratory technician, a cashier, an administrator, an accountant, and an insurance specialist, along with support staff (cleaning and security). During the first 2 weeks, it saw 45-50 patients daily and is growing rapidly. we run this site in partnership with the Anglican Church of Rwanda and the Ngoma District govenment.
Utilizing our Peace Corps Volunteers during 2009-2011, we have initiated a kitchen garden project to help the nutritional status of poorer peoplein the region. Nine gardens were installed with teaching on agriculture and maintenance. These gardens have supplemented the households' food supply and are helping to cut down on malnutrition in the area.
