Can you help safeguard the health of 11,200 people as they go about their daily lives accessing essential services in communities in Uganda and Sierra Leone?
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As you know we have been fundraising for our Covid-response in Uganda and Sierra Leone, investing in soap manufacturing and providing hand-washing stations to health clinics and other key-workers. The full project will cost just over £15,000. Previous fundraising and successful grant applications from DFID and Wales & Africa has brought in just short of £10,000.
What will the funding go towards?
We are looking to provide 22 non-private health facilities, including Kumi’s hospital and maternity wards, with much-needed hand-washing equipment, soap, sanitiser and PPE.
COVID Situation Uganda:
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Uganda is experiencing some of the harshest lockdown measures in the world. Due to lack of sanitation, soap and healthcare (e.g. in the Kumi district it is estimated that 60% of households don’t own a hand-washing facility; and there are only 55 functional ICU beds in the entire country), the country have imposed strict restrictions and schools have been closed to all but exam classes for nearly a year. It is estimated that these restrictions have pushed a further 3.6million Ugandans into poverty, with significant increases recorded in cases of malnutrition, anaemia and maternal death.
COVID Situation Sierra Leone:
Similar outcomes have been recorded in Sierra Leone, with restrictions on imports increasing the basic cost of living by at least 30% leaving many of the most vulnerable struggling to eat. There are also now serious concerns about recent outbreaks of Cholera in rural communities, and Ebola in neighbouring country, Guinea.