The Mother Maryam Foundation Clinic Project
As construction has not yet begun on the village clinic, we do not have pictures of a facility or of villagers receiving medical care. Instead we have pictures of a few villagers, representing those who will benefit from having a local clinic providing primary and preventive care and health education.
The community needs a local source of primary and preventive health care and health education. Many children are not vaccinated against tetanus, polio, diptheria, whooping cough, tuberculosis, or measles. There is no maternity, postpartum, or well baby care available locally. There are no emergency services. There is no facility for routine testing, although there is frequent need for blood sugar, malaria, and other tests. The nearest comprehensive health care available is in the provincial capital, Dongola, 40 miles away. The journey to Dongola is expensive, inconvenient, and difficult, especially for mothers and for the elderly and infirm.
This project will construct and equip a community health center. The health center will provide: outpatient services; preventive services including vaccination, maternity and postpartum and well baby care; common laboratory tests; health education; emergency care and stabilization of patients for transport to Dongola hospital; some inpatient services. The facility will be available to host visiting specialists and health care campaigns. It will make primary health services convenient and available for all. This project will serve the residents of Az-Zawrat and the surrounding villages of Binna, Jarada, Iris island, and Tura, and many more.
The provincial health authority has agreed to pay salaries of a doctor, nurse and midwife after the clinic is built. A family from the village has donated a plot of land for the clinic. The village community has pledged their labor to level the land and build the foundations and the courtyard walls. The Sudanese telephone company, Sudatel, donated $20,000 seed money to the project. The Khartoum Rotary Club has agreed to facilitate its implementation.
The Austin Rotary Club, Westlake Rotary Club, Rotary District 5870, Rotary International, and many generous individuals have donated over $100,000 to pay for the equipment and supplies needed to operate the clinic. The Rotary Club of Paphos Aphrodite in Cyprus has donated an electrocardiogram machine.
Mother Maryam Foundation is raising the money to construct the clinic building. We have raised almost $83,000 of the $130,000 needed. We need your support to raise the remaining $47,000.
Please help us by contributing.
See the model clinic plan
Read the original proposal for the clinic project.