Hospital
The Need
AS a kid did you ever get free healthcare? I did. Think of a third world country that spends one-third of its GDP on paying off JUST the interest alone of its foreign loans/debt. Where is the budget for healthcare?
Nick Kristoff said it best; that the change in America's mortality rates was led by access to healthcare. In America we have hundreds of well stocked kids hospitals. No public kids hospitals in East Africa, none. The child mortality rate has risen by 24.7% instead of declining (the hopes of MDG #4).
80% of kids who die in Kenya do so without ever seeing a healthcare provider. Two thirds of those deaths are treatable/preventable IF the kids have access!
One in seven kids are dying in Sub Saharan Africa before getting the chance to celebrate their fifth birthday...
Most foundations/charities are telling us "Sorry, we do not fund bricks & mortar" but this is a reason why this travesty exists.
If you fund raise in the name of Africa, PLEASE, listen to what the African people want; and I can promise you it is not another conference, think-tank, benefit dinner costing a six figure sum... it is simple, they want basic public healthcare for their children. Briana of Eldoret, "Your pets in America get better healthcare than our children do..." I had no reply for that one.
A Plan For Change
When kids die, One in seven before their 5th birthday, you ask Why? You look closer and see the majority of these kids are dying from treatable & preventable ailments. They have no voice... When I think of the impact of this project... hundreds upon thousands of children... And we are soon ready to start - we have the land donated, we have Doctors & nurses, the catchment area is 22-million. We have a partner adults hospital & teaching university in Kenya. We have the backing of the Ministry in Kenya
This is an exciting, innovative, and, I believe, the most likely solution to addressing today the travesty of the high child mortality rates in East Africa.
WHAT WILL BE ACHIEVED BY THIS PROJECT?
Hundreds of thousands of kids will, for the first time, get access to a Kid's public teaching hospital. By building the infrastructure of good health in Africa you are giving the continent its best chance to reverse the trend of poverty. Hundreds of Africans will also get training, per year, that they will take to their district hospitals, their part of Africa, and bit by bit pediatric healthcare will have a stronger presence in Africa.
This project is so affordable, do-able, and happening that there is no reason why we should not clone this method and in the future reach all the countries in Sub Saharan Africa.
Toby Tanser, Founder/CEO
How Can You Help?
The truth of the matter is it takes cash. I have been told 'we don't fund bricks and mortar' so many times by large foundations & charities but that is not a solution, so back in 2008 I started a Wall to ask for donors, as of Spring 2012 we have 7,000 names and over $1.3-million saved... to fund bricks & mortar. We need continued help, to fill, to expand, and continue
To date no one has given me a better realistic plan to change the terrible stats you can read to the left. And the inspiring thing is this project is so so close, I can almost touch it! Thanks for hanging with us.
