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Help for St. Albert's Mission Hospital, Northern Zimbabwe

Help us raise money for St. Albert's Mission Hospital. We'll be volunteering over the summer. All donations will be used for the hospital.

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Help for St. Albert's Mission Hospital, Northern Zimbabwe

Help for St. Albert's Mission Hospital, Northern Zimbabwe

Help for St. Albert's Mission Hospital, Northern Zimbabwe

Help for St. Albert's Mission Hospital, Northern Zimbabwe

Help for St. Albert's Mission Hospital, Northern Zimbabwe

Help us raise money for St. Albert's Mission Hospital. We'll be volunteering over the summer. All donations will be used for the hospital.

Help us raise money for St. Albert's Mission Hospital. We'll be volunteering over the summer. All donations will be used for the hospital.

Help us raise money for St. Albert's Mission Hospital. We'll be volunteering over the summer. All donations will be used for the hospital.

Help us raise money for St. Albert's Mission Hospital. We'll be volunteering over the summer. All donations will be used for the hospital.

Tracy Powell
Tracy Powell
Tracy Powell
Tracy Powell
1 Campaign |
Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe
$1,855 USD 20 backers
61% of $3,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

We (Kelsey, Maki, and Tracy) are three nursing students hoping to make a small difference to St. Albert's. We will be volunteering at the small mission hospital during summer 2013 and want to bring much needed medical supplies with us. Your support is greatly needed in order to help us purchase the supplies and medical equipment. St. Albert's is important to us because it services a remote area of Zimbabwe. If the hospital didn't exist, people would endure long travel to access health care. We are trying to raise $3,000 in order to supply the hospital with essential supplies such as gloves and suture material. 

St Albert’s Mission Hospital is a 140-bed rural facility located near Centenary, Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe. It is the only hospital in the district serving over 115,000 people including those from bordering towns in Mozambique. Without St. Albert’s, people seeking health care would have to travel far distances (four hours to several days).

  A village on the escarpment near St. Albert’s Mission Hospital

A village on the escarpment near St. Albert’s Mission Hospital

 

St. Albert’s consists of about a dozen buildings like this one, connected by covered walkways. It also includes a rehabilitation unit, a male, female, and children’s ward, a maternity unit, neonatal unit, a small staff ward, a septic and an aseptic surgical theater, an out-patient care area, a pharmacy and kitchen, and a home-based care program.

Other social services provided by St. Albert’s and its home-based care team
  • Information on HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections in schools, rural communities and farm resettlement areas.
  • Support for widows, single mothers, orphan-headed families and grandmothers raising orphans. Support can include food, school fees, uniforms, and seeds and fertilizer.
  • Orphan care. The hospital pays the fees and expenses for several hundred orphans to keep them in school.
  • Establishing peer groups for youth in and out of school.
  • Helps families organize income-generating projects.

Any donation amount is appreciated.

 

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