PROVIDE 1ST AID TRAINING & TRANSPORT TO REMOTE AREAS & SAVE LIVES
- Health care
- Health education
- Infant health
- Maternal health
- Mental health
- Poverty alleviation
- Transportation
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Founding Story
Naomi
Jallow
The Jallow Foundation The Gambia
, HAM, Fareham
, LR
1‐5 years
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Operating for less than a year
The goal of our initiative is to ensure that pregant women and women with young children are able to attend the clinics and thus decrease the health problems occuring. Our goal is also to ensure that people have access to medical facilities and in an emergency are able to get to hospital and not die before they get there. That they have comfortable well equipped transport and people with them that have some knowledge of 1st Aid and that they do not have to either not go to hospital at all due to lack of transport or be taken there on the back of an open donkey cart over dusty, bumpy tracks in either the searing heat or through mud and water filled pot holes in the pouring rain of the rainy season. That people have dignity and access to health care. We want to roll the project out elsewhere
The impact of our project has been amazing. Remote villages immediately came behind the project and there was no shortage of people wanting to be volunteer 1st Aiders for their village. The 1st Aid Training has taken place with the Gambian Red Cross backing the project from day one and carrying out the training over a three day period. The 1st Aid Kits have now been distributed and further training given and every time the Chief of the Jarra West District and the Regional as well as the local head of the Gambian Red Cross have attended and been fully behing the project saying that there has never been any other organisation who has ever carried out such a project. The Transport will be up and running by the end of March and people in the remote villages are already seeing the benefits and are so enthusiastic that some one at last has identified their needs and has done something about it. At every stage people have been consulted and involved.
With adequate funding we aim to roll the project out as far as we can. The impact of this would be huge with medical facilities becoming available to people living in remote villages which they are not now. In turn the availability of free transport to enable people to attend the clincs and hospital combined with 1st Aid Training for volunteers from each village and the provision of 1st Aid Kits and supplies will improve the health of those living in remote areas and decrease the mortality rates and health problems that presently occur.
We can identify and track growth of the project by health improvement and transport usage
Ensure that the transport vehicle is fully maintained, runs according to schedule and is self sustainable
Ensure people know that free transport is available to hospital and the clinics and therefore attend and fully use the transport
Ensure that people's first point of contact with a medical problem is initially their nominated village 1st Aider
To provide 1st Aid Training and a Vehicle to other remote areas in The Gambia
To obtain the necessary funding
To obtain the co-operation and backing of the Chief, Elders and villagers in each district
To put in place in each District where the project runs, a Co-ordinator and an assistant
As a result of this project The Gambian Red Cross would like to enter into a partnership with us. We are hoping to have discussions concerning the same in the next couple of months.
We are targeting polpulations that are remote and therefore a long distance from medical facilities and without any access to any reasonable form of transport. The reason being that these are the polpulations most at risk. At present we are working in the Jarra West District of The Gambia but our intention is to gradually provide the project to any such community in a remote area in whichever district they are in The Gambia
The success of our project comes from teamwork and good communication, both in The Gambia and in the UK and also between the two. This is both on the ground in the running and organisation of the service as well as by the Trustees and the District Co-ordinators and their assistants. Good relations, communication and co-operation with the Gambian Red Cross and with the District Chiefs and Village Elders is also imperative.
We are in need of investment/funding in order to roll out the project to more remote villages. We are also in need of local Co-Ordinator's/volunteers.