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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.

Sources of Livelihood

Farming, not animal migration, attaches the community to the land, which makes agriculture the main economic activity in the region. Most people are peasants, and the cash crop is ginger and small-scale gardening.

Maize is their staple food and beans, potatoes, and fruits are other crops that they cultivate. Cattle, goats, sheep, and pigs are also another source of livelihood.

There are no proper roads in this region. Roads are made of mud, making transport easier during summer and very difficult during the rainy season. The Pre and Primary school caters to the children of three villages. There are 183 students in the Pre and Primary school. Most of them stay in the boarding.

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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.

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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:

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

Needs and Plans For 2022 And 2023

  • Yearly school supplies like pens, pencils, erasers, rulers, books, and notebooks
  • Free medical for all children affected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
  • Free medical for all who cannot afford to pay
  • Doors and windows for pre and primary school
  • Two desktop computers, printer, and printing supplies
  • Two blood pressure monitors
  • Two stethoscopes
  • Three patient intensive care unit (ICU) monitors
  • Continue with the construction of the Maternity-Theater complex in the remaining phases.
  • Apply to the Tanzania Ministry of Health to open an obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN) specialist clinic.
  • Apply for doctor volunteers to improve service quality, especially in obstetric care.
  • Install electrocardiogram (ECG) machine
  • Add one oxygen concentrator and backup fetal monitor.
  • Buy and install a modern anesthesia machine for theater.
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“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

Desmond Tutu

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

Nelson Mandela