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.
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.
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Give the Gift of Healthcare
Regular price From £25.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Community Gardening Project
Regular price £10.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Farming as a Business
Regular price £25.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Community Tractor Project
Regular price £50.00Regular priceUnit price per