ALPHA HEALTH CENTRE

Improving Lives

The Alpha Centre will benefit Gambia’s rural population by offering community health education to minimise the suffering currently experienced in these hard-to-reach places. The Alpha Centre will provide health services, educational knowledge on nutrition, support for girls’ education, and a vocational training centre.

ALPHA HEALTH CENTRE

Helping Communities

The development and planning of the healthcare centre will include regular discussions with community elders and the youth groups. The Alpha Centre will promote and initiate the growth of sustainable businesses that work with the health centre administration to provide profitable incomes.

Impact Results

Health

The Gambian villages of Nyamanarr, Gulumbuyel, Madinayel, and Missira Bamariama are located at least 12km from the nearest health facility in Fatoto. Existing healthcare facilities for the community consists of a mobile reproductive and child health clinic that comes to the community once a month. This mobile clinic occasionally provides antenatal care, lab services and immunisation services. As a result of poor access to health care services, the village and its surroundings have had a high rate of child maternal mortality. Introducing the Alpha Community Health Centre to the villages will provide an accessible healthcare facility that will reduce child and mother mortality rates.

Education

The Alpha Centre will support girls’ education through community initiatives by providing bicycles for students to travel to and from Fatoto Junior and Fatoto High schools and by building a vocational training centre. As well as traditional education, The Alpha Centre will also educate the community on nutrition.

Farming

The Alpha Centre will purchase tractors to support the communities during the rainy season to help increase the yield of farming produce. The centre will also have its own lands for farming to produce vital nutritious food for patients and staff and will improve existing agricultural equipment and machinery to help provide sufficient food for the community and enable them to be self-sufficient.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

FGM the ritual cutting or removal of a female's genitals for non-medical reasons and constitutes a major risk to the life of women and children where it is practiced. The Alpha Health Centre will run 

Educational programmes for the community on FGM.

Employment

The Alpha Centre will build a vocational training programme for the communities to help with self-employment in the region and will also create employment opportunities for the youth of the community.

Sponsor Packages

There are several ways you can support the new Alpha Community Health Care Centre and its community projects.

  • Proposed Land for Project Implementation

    Proposed Land for Project Implementation

    There are three proposed parcels of land secured for the construction of the healthcare centre, the community gardening project, and the poultry, fish, prawn, and cashew farms.

    Proposed Land for Project Implementation

    There are three proposed parcels of land secured for the construction of the healthcare centre, the community gardening project, and the poultry, fish, prawn, and cashew farms.

  • Introducing the Fish Farm

    Introducing the Fish Farm

    Due to overfishing by foreign trawlers off the coast of West Africa the seas are almost devoid of fish.

    Introducing the Fish Farm

    Due to overfishing by foreign trawlers off the coast of West Africa the seas are almost devoid of fish.

  • Extra curriculum classes for Jofi School

    Extra Curriculum Classes

    Jofi School organises song and dance classes every Thursday for Nursery Years 2 and 3, as well as Grades 1, 2 , 4 and 5.

    Extra Curriculum Classes

    Jofi School organises song and dance classes every Thursday for Nursery Years 2 and 3, as well as Grades 1, 2 , 4 and 5.

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