We need your help to build Healthcare Centre at Onura sub Village Sudan!

Lofiriha is a war raged rural community located in Magwi County Sudan. The community has been devastated by civil conflicts until 2005 when peace was signed. Over 10,000 people have been forced to leave their homes and the community development was brought to a virtual halt. There is no infrastructure developed and lack of security in the past years has made it impossible for the local inhabitants to return and rebuild.

This community has no feeder road, healthcare post, a school on permanent structures, and no access to clean drinking water. Lofiriha people are neither ethnic Acholi nor Latuka. For political reason they were annexed to Magwi county during the colonial era. The Acholis and Madis are the biggest tribes while Lofiriha are the most marginalized ethnic people in the county and in southern Sudan.

The development of Lofiriha society critically depends on “HOPE OFIRIHA” to address the immediate needs and the challenges since there are no international NGOs working in the entire Lofiriha rural areas.

Project title: Loheru health facility  building project – Sudan.

Project aims

To construct healthcare centre to provide a clean environment and basic healthcare services for the patients, in particular women suffering from fistula. This Centre will include a 20 – bed ward, a maternity unit, educational and administrative facilities, as well as other essential facilities. This facility will be built adjacent to local existing Loheru health post clinic and will offer a discrete entrance for fistula patients and women at high risk of obstructed labor.

Project Duration

It takes 3 – to – 4 months to complete as funding becomes available.

Construction Budget

USD 150,000.

What are the problems?

The local villagers have difficulties explaining their illness clearly, In Lofiriha community the majority of villagers are uneducated and cannot read either in Arabic or English. It is very difficult for the villagers to explain properly what kind of sickness they have to the medical staffs when they go to Magwi health centre, or to Torit hospital. The reason is that villagers can only speak LOFIRIHA dialect, a language of its own, which makes it difficult for them to get good treatment in these health facilities. The medical staffs treat these people very irresponsible because they do not understand the villagers’ dialect.

Risks for pregnant women and infants, According to the village medical Assistant on average three to four infants are dead upon delivery and about 15 women dies due to childbirth (fistula) each year in the community. The reasons are that the local health facility is poorly equipped. The distance to Magwi health centre which is 35 km away, and poor living conditions are other additional factors which contributing to death cases.

Expense, when the villagers go to the big hospitals in town they always have to pay £50 as a registration fee for getting treatment and even buying medicines no matter if the medicines cost £200 or more. If the villagers want to see the experts, they have to pay £60 registration fee. And also the villagers have to spend £160 round trip fares on motorcycle from Lofiriha community to the Magwi town. One common thing is that most big hospitals usually have the same problem, which is they want more money from the poor villagers – in this case doctors make the village patients take irrelevant examinations and prescribe expensive but unnecessary medicine in order to get more profits.

Waste, if the villagers go to the big hospitals in the towns they need to spend at least 2 days just going to Magwi healthcare centre and 4 days just going to Torit hospital footing. This is a waste of valuable time, which could be saved if the community has a more adequate health centre to cater for its medical needs.

What are the Benefits of the project?

Easy to communicate with the doctor, if there is well equipped health centre in the community it is much easier for the villagers to explain what kind of sickness they have and what kind of medicines they need because they can speak in LOFIRIHA dialect to medical officials since they will be from the same community. In case the medical staffs are from elsewhere translators from within will always assist.

Reduce the risk rate for pregnant women, if there health centre is in good condition in the community then pregnant women and their babies will face few risks. The health centre would have a better patient beds and sufficient medicines.

Save money, if the health centre is stock with modern equipments in the community – then local villagers do not need to spend much money on transportation cost to far away hospital. As discussed the town hospitals takes advantage of countryside patients by selling them unnecessary medicines and giving irrelevant tests. The travel and hospital registration costs alone total about £220, which should be enough to purchase medicine locally in a new and improved health centre.

Save time, if the health centre can provide good services in the community, then villagers do not need to waste time going to Magwi health centre and/or to Torit hospital. Travel to and from usually takes 6/8 days since most move on foot. Very few can afford to hire motorcycle (Bodaboda). We estimate that most patients need to spend to 2/4 days in Magwi healthcare centre and at Torit hospital even if the sickness is very serious and life threatening before they get medical attention.

Gender equality, firstly, an improved health centre will make it safer for pregnant women, girls, whose health and chances of uncomplicated deliveries will improve. Most women will not have to make journeys to far away health centre clinics, and hospitals, which can jeopardize a pregnancy thus reducing the chances from suffering fistula.

Provided by the community:

30,000 soil block bricks
16 River sand – 3 ton Lorry

We need to raise funds for building materials, and if you can help – please click here to donate via paypal donation button.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

All activities shall be monitored and evaluated by HOPE OFIRIHA, Lofiriha Traditional Authorities, and Magwi County local government.

This project is designed to produce maximum results. The vast majority of the money will be used for building supplies, and equipments, together with training and monitoring. The local costs are kept to a minimum. Healthcare staffs will be chosen on the basis of their ability and a real passion for improving the healthcare services in the community. We are confident that this project in Onura sub village – Sudan will have major and long-lasting benefits for the entire rural Lofiriha Buma (community) – and that it will make a major contribution to poverty reduction.

Contact Us:

Please contact HOPE Ofiriha by clicking here if you would like to fund this project or if you would like further information.

These pupils have passed their exams to start primary 4, but the closes school is 70km to and from each day. The children do not have a street to walk on, school bus to ride, or a bicycle to help them with 70km journey through the wild bush.

We are a charity undertaking school building projects to give poor children in Omiling sub Boma Sudan care and high quality education. By building our own schools based on charity donations and fund-raising, we will have good teachers; good study content and teach the children to be self-sufficient.

We need your help to start our school building project. If you want to dedicate some of your time helping us with fund-raising, please contact us. If you want to give a charity donation to the project, please take a look at our education donation list and find something you want to sponsor. Do good and give a charity donation!

Through out most of Omilling sub Boma like any where in Sudan, there is a tremendous lack of resources in all areas and this is noticeable in schools as it can be seen on current school below. Mairo primary school has only one double classroom for over 2018 pupils. Currently,  about 1019 pupils are using these dilapidated temporary structures.

This is a very large and worthwhile project and we need funding for classrooms, teachers’ houses, toilets, etc., so that we can start with the building program.

The proposed school will be built in Omilling Boma Sudan

The school will be built in cooperation with Magwi local government, the local chiefs, our County Commissioner, and Lofiriha Traditional Authority. It will provide a much needed opportunity for the pupils from the local villages and we are hopeful that the school will be open soon. We really have a committed team of local qualified builders who are motivated, and the building will be completed as planed.

If you or your company would like to fund this appeal, or any of the many projects, please contact us by clicking here to discuss the opportunity and we will listen to the offer.

Title of project: Mairo primary school building project – Sudan

Project Location

This project will be located at Onura sub Boma – Magwi County Sudan.

Description of the project

The purpose of this project is to enable the numerous children from remote mountainous areas to attend school. It is also to build several classrooms, and to provide learning materials, and teaching resources. In addition the project will improve health sanitation in the school environment.

The aims of the project

• to build 8 classrooms and 8 teacher’s houses
• to build 1 reception office
• to build 1 store and 1 library
• to build 4 pit latrine toilets (school pupils) and 3 teachers’ pit latrine toilets

Justification of the project

Level of education, the crucial reason why this project is needed is the low level of education. According to the local census in 2006 undertaken in five villages of Omilling community it was found out that majority of people have no education, and 99% of female can not read and written. There are no female (girls, and women) who have completed primary education leave alone secondary education. This was due to the fact that Omilling has been neglected by the past Magwi local government. As a result the community has been left behind in all areas of development.

Low school enrollment

Currently, the number of pupils who are at Mairo primary school are only 250 pupils and 60 are girls; this is insufficient because we have registered 2018 pupils in 2008. The consequence of limited space is that pupils cannot have evening classes or study appropriately because there is no electricity when it is dark. In this regard there is a great need to construct more classrooms to cater for these growing demands.

Unsanitary school environment

The school has no toilets and the pupils and teachers are forced to find other means. The school ground great unpleasant smell and poor sanitary conditions. In order to improve sanitation in this school a pit toilet project must be undertaken.

Inadequate teaching materials

the final problem is the teaching materials. The school has never bought teaching materials and physical equipments (PE). This has led to the boredom and physical detriment of many pupils. Furthermore, the school has no curriculum textbooks and the pupils have no textbooks available for learning due to lack of fund.

Benefits accruing to target

550 school age boys and 300 school age girls with teachers will benefit immediately from this project. 150 new pupils will be admitted yearly once there are enough classrooms.
150 young women aged 25-35 will receive short term life skills training for 8 months every yearly, and 50 men will also benefit from the literacy program.

Expected output

The output of this project will depend on three parts: project management, labor, and monitoring. The management will be conducted by the project director, Omilling school committee. The labor will be carried out by the people of Omilling community free of charge.

Expected results

• school building constructed on permanent structures
• Supplying of teaching materials – ongoing activities
• More and more children will get quality education
• Community will get better and lives of its people will also improve
• Girls from local areas will have more life choices due to education they will be getting

Execution

The local volunteer from Omilling sub Boma will be responsible to provide free labor until the competition of the entire project.

Sustainability

The government of southern Sudan will pays for teacher’s salaries and supplying teaching and study materials on yearly bases. It will also recruit new teachers to teach at Mairo once the building project is completed.

The pupils will clean the school areas and the villages have agreed to contribute fund necessary for routine maintenance of the school building, and pit toilets. The local community will also provide the labor needed to perform this maintenance.

Monitoring and Evaluation

All activities shall be monitored and evaluated by Hope Ofiriha, Magwi local government, and Lofiriha Traditional Authorities.

Conclusion

This project is designed to produce maximum results. The vast majority of money will be used in purchasing building supplies. The main office local costs are kept to the minimum. The local workers of this project will be chosen on the basis of their ability and a real passion for improving the educational opportunities for local children from Omilling community. We are confident that this project will have major and long lasting benefits for the Omilling rural communities and that it will make a major contribution on poverty reduction.