Bring Light: Bring Hospital Beds to Rural Hospital in Ethiopia

PROJECT

Bring Hospital Beds to Rural Hospital in Ethiopia

Streams of Life International

Help us bring badly needed hospital beds to a desperate facility! The Assosa Hospital in western Ethiopia cannot afford to provide hospital beds for their patients. If a bed is available, the frame is most likely broken and mattresses are ripped and covered in maggots. If a bed is not available, patients will sleep on the floors. Would you want this for you or your family? Help us make a difference! It costs $325 dollars to provide one bed to the hospital. What can you do bring hope and life to rural Ethiopia?

Number of Donations: 1 | Posted about 1 year ago


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Streams of Life International

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Charity Info

Based in: San Ramon, California

Year founded: 2006

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Project Info

The Assosa Hospital, in western Ethiopia, is the only hospital to care for 600,000 people living in a region the size of West Virginia. Within Ethiopia, this western region is termed the "Forgotten Region" because it rarely receives government support or attention from international relief agencies.

The Assosa Hospital has an operating budget of $70,000 a year and cannot afford to maintain the hospital facilities, let alone stock the pharmacy. A 100-bed facility, most of the hospital beds and children cribs are broken, covered in maggots, and ripped to shreds. Struggling with such unsanitary conditions, the Director of the hospital once said, "I am worried that the patients arrive with one disease and leave with another."

A 501(c) (3) charity, Streams of Life International's goal is create a change for this forgotten region. A volunteer-run organization, SOLI was founded in 2005 by a recent college graduate, Ashley Noah, as a campaign to collect bed sheets for the hospital. Since then, the organization has expanded to not only supply bed sheets and beds for the hospital, but refurbish the entire facility, provide clean water wells for the entire region, distribute mosquito nets, offer medical clinics and pharmacies free for the community, and more. Twice a year, American volunteers travel to this region to provide support in construction and medical activities.

To ensure that your donation will go directly to this rewarding cause, Streams of Life International has established an office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This office is run by volunteer Ethiopians who are dedicated to serve their country. These volunteers will personally travel with the bed delivery to the hospital and oversee their set-up. As a completely volunteer-run organization, administrative costs are minimal.

One bed costs $325. Consider how you will get involved and make a difference. Can you give $3.25? $32.50? $325? $3,250? Anything you can give will make a difference in such an impoverished region!