Infant and Maternal Health Project
Country: Sierra Leone
Location: West Africa
Estimated Project Start Date: 2010
Status: Initiated Stop the Hemorrhaging Fundraising Tour in February-March 2011.
AAPDEP Sierra Leone is consolidating an Architect to produce technical plans for the clinic.
Now accepting in-kind donations (see our list here)
Project Summary: To build a clean and safe facility with well trained staff poised to provide life saving services to mother and child. The end goal is to make this clinic completely self-sufficient within 5 years of being built.
Analysis: Africans in Sierra Leone have virtually no access to decent healthcare and often times must travel long distances to receive care at inadequately staffed and overall substandard clinics. AAPDEP's community health workers program will help to alleviate the suffering of Africans in Sierra Leone as a result of the imposed healthcare crisis by training local Freetown residents to treat and educate others on how reduce the already high infant and maternal mortality rate.
Skills Needed: Healthcare professionals, Midwives, Nurses, OB/GYN's
View our Brochure here (686 KB)