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Health
Projects
Children gather to obtain health insurance / Ghana
the US, funded a clinic via the GO
Fund which focused on the needs
of young people. The clinic
addresses issues like sexual
education, nutrition, HIV/AIDS
prevention and treatment, and PARTNER
general good health and hygiene ORGANIZATION
practices. W hile the facility is
located next to the Home for AYD / GHANA
Hope, currently the clinic is not
functional due to lack of resources
Child receiving care during outreach program / Ghana to staff and supply the facility.
See photo on Home for Hope
CHILDREN"S HEALTH INSURANCE page.
The GO Fund supported
Alliance for Youth Development 2000 kids
(AYD) in Ghana to register over obtain health
20 0 0 children aged 5 - 18 in 20
communities for a national insurance Musunkwa clinic dedicated to GO Fund (in white
letters) / Ghana
health insurance program (age HIV/AIDS TREATMENT &
0 -5 receive medical care for
MUSUNKWA HEALTH CLINIC NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT
free). In Ghana, a child over 5
is covered if their mother is One very special community For over eight years GO Fund
covered; however many women where we work is extremely has been supporting children
cannot afford health insurance remote and has been slow to living with HIV whose parents
so their children are vulnerable. receive the benefits of have been unable to afford
development. However, when they medicines and treatment. AYD
The impact of this program
are given the smallest amount of helped identify the families that
was so great it was written up
support they use their passion and needed the most support, and
by the Ghanaian News Agency
collective will to take a project to GO Fund financed their
as a ma jor service to women,
the next level. The GO Fund was medicines and food supplies
children and society as a
asked to provide funds to complete monthly to ensure these
whole. Click Here for Art icle the building of a small clinic. children had the best chance
Knowing their nearest health possible to lead healthy and
MONTCHEVRE HEALTH CLINIC facility was a seven-mile walk productive lives.
away we were happy to help. One such boy who began
Recognizing that children and
Today that clinic sees 10 0 0 visitors receiving support at age 11 is
adolescents need a safe place to
per year and is now fully funded by now at university pursuing a
learn the skills to lead healthy
the government of Ghana, with a technical degree. His sister, who
lives, in 2014 Montchevre, the
full-time nurse and medicines and is also HIV positive, is now
leading goat cheese company in
medical supplies on site. finishing senior high school.
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