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Maternity Project
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In July 2007, 17 year old Christina Ramsay, pupil at St David’s College in Llandudno, came back from a school project visit to Uganda with a huge compassion for mums and babies and their maternity care. The infant and mother mortality rate is desperate. As many as 1:8 mothers die in child birth in some parts of Africa. Christina’s compassion was so huge that she was sent back by her school on a fact finding mission. She travelled on her own in February 2008 and met up with John Njendahayo who runs our Link International work in Uganda. Together they looked at the issues, selected a site for a maternity clinic and by Christina’s return to Uganda in July 2008 the land was bought and preparations begun for building. During the summer of 2008, Alice Hayden and Caroline Bayliss, both recent past pupils of St David’s College spent several weeks at the site doing site plans. Alice and Caroline are architecture students at Sheffield Hallam – they are drawing up the building plans. The challenge is to raise £35k to build this maternity clinic and have it operational by December 2009. A new exciting aspect has recently emerged following meeting another past pupil who is a pioneer developer in nursing in UK and working with a number of Health Authorities and Nursing Schools as well as a Pharmaceutical Company. The plan is to create a package and show medical training institutions and medical businesses how they could ‘adopt’ a maternity/medical clinic project of their own. Small-scale, appropriate level technology, sustainable maternity; health care clinics could sprout up rapidly in the poorest and most remote parts of Africa and radically improve basic health care and give babies and mums a greater chance of survival. The benefits for our institutions are extensive, including community building humanitarian work and developing-world experience. If you would like to adopt a project for yourself, or feel you can help us in any way, we would love to talk to you. |
