Uplifting Communities Through Livelihood and Medical Donations

Help The Enduring is a non-profit organization rooted in the value of community support. We are based in Fremont, California and we have the primary goal of providing marginalized communities with free education, shelter, water, healthcare, and electricity.

Work Based on Passion

Our founder witnessed their grandparents and parents devote their time and effort to serving their community in various ways, including education, hospital and prison ministry, and village reconstruction.

The organization aims to cross all barriers and recognize social diversity, empowering everyone regardless of gender, ethnicity, language, color, caste, or other distinctions with vital skills and the confidence to live meaningful and purposeful lives.

Bwambo Health Center

Bwambo Health Center is a health facility located in Bwambo, Tanzania. It serves as the referral facility in the remote mountainous area southeast of the Pare Mountains.

Since there were no health facility or health professionals in this region, only spiritual and humanitarian services were available. Many people lost their lives because of the remoteness of the area, lack of healthcare professionals, poor infrastructure, and lack of education.

This urged missionaries to build a small house as a dispensary despite not having proper roads, they used their car as an ambulance for emergency services. The dispensary has since been upgraded to a health center to offer emergency surgeries.

Recent Upgrades

With the help of generous donors and benefactors, the health center now has solar energy as a backup to the national grid and new departments have been added including:

Surgery
Obstetrics
Gynecology
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Radiology

The health center serves the villages of Bwambo, Vugwama, and Mweteni that have an estimated population of 10,771. It also gets patients from Myamba, Mpinji, Vunta, and Kirangare villages, which have an estimated 36,074 people.

Ndungu

The word “ndungu” originates from the Pare word “Ndu ngu,” which means “saving.” Originally, people from the Pare Mountains reserved their grain stocks and other crops and later, the word took on the meaning of a weapon storage area.

Ndungu is located in the district of Same in the Kilimanjaro region. It is bordered by the Pare Mountains in the south, Mkomazi park in the northeast, and the Usambara Mountains in the west.

Kighare

Kighare is a small village in Vuje, a rural ward in Northern Tanzania, Kilimanjaro Region, in the Same district. Mvango is the official name for Kighare. Its altitude is 1500 meters.

The people of Kighare belong to different clans and came to this place at different times for various purposes. For example, the Wambugu clan kept animals, so they settled on land suitable for their cattle. Other clans were agricultural, so they settled in fertile valleys.

Kighare RC Dispensary

Kighare RC Dispensary is part of the Same Mission project, registered with the government of Tanzania. It is located at the highland and in the village of Mvango in Vuje ward in the District of Same in the Kilimanjaro Region, about sixty kilometers from the same town.

It was started in 1950 with the purpose of treating diseases such as Ascaris, which was a great challenge at that time. Apart from that purpose, this dispensary also treated other diseases, which greatly challenged the indigenous.

The Rural Dispensary Assistant administered it in collaboration with missionary nuns. Recently, the dispensary has been under the administration of the Assistant Medical Officer.

Available Services

Currently, the dispensary provides all services required by the law of the Tanzania Government, which are compatible with the moral Catholic Church. Such services are:

1 Visiting patients (Out Patient Department (OPD)
2 Temporary admission in which only 15 beds are available.
3 Vaccination to children and maternal care (Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services)
4 Women in delivery
5 Dental services
6 Oculist services
7 Guiding and counseling to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/VVU victims.

Targeted People

The target people are those from the Mvango village, who are 3,250 in number, and the rest are from various other places in the same district.

Top Ten Leading Diseases of the Year 2020:

NO.	DISEASE	MALE	FEMALE	TOTAL
1.	Upper respiratory tract infection	743	794	1537
2.	Urinary tract infection	212	467	679
3.	Hypertension	307	351	658
4.	Rheumatoid disease	290	361	651
5.	Peptic ulcers disease	209	344	553
6.	Diarrhoea disease	298	219	517
7.	Dental disease	182	224	406
8.	Fungal infections	102	256	358
9.	Pelvic inflammatory disease		184	184
10.	Pneumonia	62	74	136

NO.	DISEASE	FEMALE	MALE	TOTAL
1.	Anaemia	60	64	124
2.	Diabetes mellitus	50	59	109
3.	Malaria	64	40	104
4.	Intestinal worms	44	58	102

Patients Served Within The Last Six Years:

1 In the year 2016, 13,823 patients
2 In the year 2017, 12,289 patients
3 In the year 2018, 11,664 patients
4 In the year 2019, 11,068 patients
5 In the year 2020, 10,628 patients
6 In the year 2021, 12,423 patients

Achievements

1 We have saved various people with different diseases, as mentioned above.
2 We are proceeding with the vaccination against Covid-19 in the communities.
3 Provision of health education to our people.
4 We have treated a significant percentage of the intestinal worm disease disturbing our people.

Challenges

1 Poor roads hinder the movement of people to the dispensary.
2 Addition of dispensary infrastructures, especially rooms, Theaters, and beds to accommodate patients better.
3 There is a shortage of specialists such as nurses, clinical officers, and environmental health officers.