HEALTHCARE

We believe that access to healthcare is a fundamental human right and overall wellbeing will help lift communities out of poverty. Our healthcare projects span a number of different areas, including training medical professionals and supporting special needs services.

Nurse Aye Sin (right) and Physician’s assistant Naw (left) tending to the sick

Sustain Projects Myanmar

Following decades of civil war in the Kyaukkyi region, Myanmar, the surrounding communities remain divided and impoverished. Despite ongoing unrest, Partners in Relief and Development has supported the Ther Ray-Dau Pae Clinic, providing life-saving healthcare to more than 11,000 people every year. Operating in a conflict-ridden environment and with a shoe-string budget has been a challenge for the organisation.

To help the clinic continue its outstanding work, we enabled the recruitment of four doctors, six operational staff members and supported 16 medical students through their training to become doctors, nurses and midwives. This is in addition to covering operational costs – supporting high-quality treatment of over 11,000 patients that the clinic receives every year, of which more than 1,500 are pregnant women and over 250 require specialist care.

Enabling mobility and independence to over 300 children in Shahjadpur, near Dhaka in Bangladesh

Cerebral Palsy Alliance & The Child Sight Foundation

The Cerebral Palsy Alliance and The Child Sight Foundation work to address childhood impairment disadvantages in developing countries, such as eye care services and hearing aids. There still exists however, a stigma against children with Cerebral Palsy in Bangladesh.

To combat this, the Nadia and Alf Taylor Foundation collaborated with both organisations to build a wheelchair factory, producing custom wheelchairs and delivering physical therapy to those in need, while also educating communities on the importance of caring for people with disabilities. The wheelchairs were built according to World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, and are specially designed for rough terrain with compliance testing to the highest standards. They are also fully adjustable, so each chair can be fitted to meet the child’s needs and adapt as they grow. Over 300 chairs have been provided in Bangladesh, enabling mobility and independence to many children as they attend school for the first time.