Making Sustainable Change With Educational Equipment Donations
Help The Enduring in Fremont, California creates fundraising efforts that aim to empower and develop communities in Tanzania through creating access to better education, medical, and livelihood resources.
Bwambo
Bwambo is a small community located atop the Pare mountains. The Pare mountains divide Tanzania and Kenya, running in the South Easterly direction to the Indian Ocean. Because of their height, they receive precipitation even during the dry season.
Bwambo Health Center
Bwambo Health Centre is a health facility located in Bwambo, Same district, Tanzania. It serves as the referral facility in the remote mountainous area of the southern-east Pare Mountains.
The health center serves three villages – Bwambo, Vugwama, and Mweteni with an estimated population of 10771. It also gets patients from Myamba, Mpinji, Vunta, and Kirangare villages which have an estimation of 36074 people together.
Medical Challenges
In the beginning, since there was neither any health facility nor 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 need 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. With all those challenges, the dispensary was upgraded to a health center to offer emergency surgeries.
Current Status of the Health Center
Through generous donors and benefactors, solar panels for back up energy sources and new medical departments and treatments have been added, including:
Needs and Plans For 2022 And 2023
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Desmond Tutu
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