Causes: Economic Development, International, International Agricultural Development, International Economic Development, International Relief, Microfinance
Mission: Our mission is to provide critical medical support for those living in extreme poverty. In September 2006, GAF launched one initiative in each of its following three divisions: Global Development, Global Health, and Global Libraries. Its Global Development and Health Divisions implement initiatives through its Sierra Leone NGO, NOW. Its Global Libraries Division implements a community based health development web-portal PovertyHealth. org targeting global youth. Although Africa is a poverty reduction quagmire, GAF develops operative solutions specific to the needs of its communities.
Programs: Wellbody alliance operates a comprehensive and top-quality primary care facility in the most war-devastated impoverished region of sierra leone . Over 70% of our patients receive completely free care, and nobody is turned away for their inability to pay. This facility serves as a clinical training and referral center for kono district and has one of three practicing doctors for the region of nearly 600,000 people. We provide specialized care for pregnant women, children, war-wounded and amputees and hiv patients, and have the most sophisticated laboratory and radiology services in the district. This facility serves approximately 20,000 patients per year, and periodically hosts training for healthcare workers. Wellbody also managed a corps of approximately 180 community health workers in close partnership with the public healthcare system who acted as first responders, public health educators, referral scouts and case managers in ultra-remote regions of kono. Community health workers provided home-based care and accompaniment to pregnant women and children, weekly home visits, social support and referral services to approximately 400 hiv patients, screened tens of thousands of people for tuberculosis, and identified and coordinated care for hundreds tb positive patients. Wellbody alliance was also a major frontline responder to the 2014 ebola outbreak since the disease emerged in sierra leone. Wellbody coordinated nationwide distributions of protective equipment and trainings for health workers, deployed hundreds of community health workers to provide surveillance, contact tracing and sensitive accompaniment and engagement for affected families, and remained the only clinic in kono district to maintain essential healthcare services throughout the outbreak. Wellbody has emerged as one of the major healthcare ngos in sierra leone through our work wedding compassionate, sensitive community engagement, social justice advocacy and excellent clinical care in the context of this unprecedented epidemic.
Mission: Our mission is to provide critical medical support for those living in extreme poverty. In September 2006, GAF launched one initiative in each of its following three divisions: Global Development, Global Health, and Global Libraries. Its Global Development and Health Divisions implement initiatives through its Sierra Leone NGO, NOW. Its Global Libraries Division implements a community based health development web-portal PovertyHealth. org targeting global youth. Although Africa is a poverty reduction quagmire, GAF develops operative solutions specific to the needs of its communities.
Programs: Wellbody alliance operates a comprehensive and top-quality primary care facility in the most war-devastated impoverished region of sierra leone . Over 70% of our patients receive completely free care, and nobody is turned away for their inability to pay. This facility serves as a clinical training and referral center for kono district and has one of three practicing doctors for the region of nearly 600,000 people. We provide specialized care for pregnant women, children, war-wounded and amputees and hiv patients, and have the most sophisticated laboratory and radiology services in the district. This facility serves approximately 20,000 patients per year, and periodically hosts training for healthcare workers. Wellbody also managed a corps of approximately 180 community health workers in close partnership with the public healthcare system who acted as first responders, public health educators, referral scouts and case managers in ultra-remote regions of kono. Community health workers provided home-based care and accompaniment to pregnant women and children, weekly home visits, social support and referral services to approximately 400 hiv patients, screened tens of thousands of people for tuberculosis, and identified and coordinated care for hundreds tb positive patients. Wellbody alliance was also a major frontline responder to the 2014 ebola outbreak since the disease emerged in sierra leone. Wellbody coordinated nationwide distributions of protective equipment and trainings for health workers, deployed hundreds of community health workers to provide surveillance, contact tracing and sensitive accompaniment and engagement for affected families, and remained the only clinic in kono district to maintain essential healthcare services throughout the outbreak. Wellbody has emerged as one of the major healthcare ngos in sierra leone through our work wedding compassionate, sensitive community engagement, social justice advocacy and excellent clinical care in the context of this unprecedented epidemic.
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Economic Development
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