Project: Burangi Village, Malindi Kenya
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For just $48,000, we can help the Burangi Village build a medical clinic
Picture
a village whose territories
are surrounded by a river filled with crocodiles and brown with mud.
Four times
a year this river floods, making this village district an island in the
middle
of the savannah. The trek across the river in dugout canoes is no
longer
possible and people are isolated from medical care – even if they could
afford
it. The lack of a road into the village means they have no way of
getting their
produce to market.
As a traveler to over 70 countries and a leader in numerous international development projects, I've never seen a community so remote, needs so great, and a people so committed. The combination makes radical transformation a genuine possibility. The work accomplished by this empowered community continues to astound me, their work on the road, their willingness to contribute above and beyond other similar communities is truly impressive. Mark Russell, Ph. D CEO, Rusell Media
Life in Burangi is hard, but the people are resilient and hopeful, despite the fact that they experience absolute poverty and have very limited to no access to health facilities. The doctor-patient ratio is 1 to 19,502, where as it is 1 to every 300 people in the U.S. Malaria and parasitic diseases are prevalent. Many are forced to seek health care from herbalists and traditional healers, rather than health professionals. This community has also cleared 14 km of bush with hand tools to make an access road so that construction materials could be brought in for the building of phase one of the clinic, which began in January. The community is also doing the labor saving over $16,000!
This community is highly motivated to improve their condition, to have a place to take their sick children, as one Grandmother told us, “I will be here everyday to help build this clinic – I lost my daughter to complications of childbirth and now I am raising her child. Her life could have been saved if we had a clinic to go to get help, and now soon we will have one!”