Maternal Health Initiative

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Gambia / Guinea Bissau Health Clinics

This initiative impacts rural Gambia and rural Guinea-Bissau, including the Bijagos Islands, by tackling systemic healthcare challenges and promoting sustainable improvements in health outcomes. Your donation supports essential resources that address ongoing healthcare needs, enhancing access to medical care in even the most remote villages and ultimately reducing infant mortality rates. Focusing special attention on the health of mothers and babies will yield significant and lasting improvements.

This initiative works to provide infrastructure that offers several services for the immediate and surrounding communities, including free or sliding-scale medical care, medications (with quite a few hospital beds for those needing long-term care for diseases such as malaria, diabetes, and malnutrition), maternal-pre/post-natal care, early childhood care clinics, and the gamut of other diseases and health care needs.

Your support provides women in need with post-natal baby bags containing essentials such as baby shampoo, baby powder, lotion, towels, clothing, diapers, and more. We also work to support and enhance their infrastructure, providing access to medical care in rural communities and thereby improving health outcomes for both mothers and children. We can not improve the lives of these women and invest in their healthcare without you.

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Our Partnerships with Clinics

Our partnership with clinics is rooted in a shared vision to meet the needs of the whole person—body, mind, social, and spiritual. Together, we support outpatient, inpatient, and community-based care that brings healing and hope to underserved communities. Partner clinics typically offer general outpatient services several days a week, along with 24/7 emergency response. Many also provide specialized care in non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and asthma, while running vital programs in malnutrition, HIV treatment, infant welfare, and maternity care. Facilities often include small inpatient wards and isolation units to manage more complex cases. A key component of our partnership is a strong focus on community outreach, conducting weekly village screenings for chronic illnesses and offering home visits to those living with HIV and other long-term conditions.

We are especially proud to support initiatives like the Community Health Nurse (CHN) training program, which is now equipping its first cohort of students through both classroom instruction and practical hospital placements. By investing in local health systems and personnel, we are helping build a sustainable future for healthcare across the region—one that honors dignity, restores health, and transforms lives.

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“There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.”
— Mary Rose McGeady
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