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ALPHA HEALTH CENTRE
Providing healthcare services to communities living in rural Gambia.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Fundraising Campaign
Building the Alpha Community Health Centre is a massive project for the region and will require £150,000 to be completed. The land is already acquired, the architects have already drawn up the plans, the permissions have been granted, the next stage is the completion of phase 1.
Sponsor Packages
There are several ways you can support the new Alpha Community Health Care Centre and its supporting projects.
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Community Tractor Project - Alpha Community Health Centre
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Farming as a Business - Alpha Community Health Centre
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Community Gardening Project - Alpha Community Health Centre
Regular price £10.00Regular priceUnit price / per
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Project News
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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.
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About Alpha Baldeh, Founder of Alpha Community ...
Born into an extended family, Alpha is the oldest of eight children from his mother along with 18 other siblings from his other two stepmums.
About Alpha Baldeh, Founder of Alpha Community ...
Born into an extended family, Alpha is the oldest of eight children from his mother along with 18 other siblings from his other two stepmums.
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Feeding Programme
The proposed feeding programme will involve the community through farming support by the provision of tractors that can be used both for farming and building purposes.
Feeding Programme
The proposed feeding programme will involve the community through farming support by the provision of tractors that can be used both for farming and building purposes.