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Objective  Building a hospital in Kibera, slum of Nairobi, Kenya


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Tags: Africa, HIV-AIDS, Kenya, Kibera, poverty Edit Icon Edit

 
Salim and Carolina for Kibera are raising money to build Kibera’s first real hospital—
Tabitha Medical Clinic—employing dozens of nurses and doctors.

Unlike its present clinic, which must refer serious cases to a hospital about an hour walk away, the new hospital will have a lab, Kibera’s first x-ray machine, and free anti-retroviral drugs for HIV positive Kiberans. An estimated 20 percent of all Kiberans are HIV positive. At present, the clinic can only provide testing and counseling but not the medications themselves.

Construction started in March 2007 and will be finalized in March 2008.

“We’re about 85% of the way there,” says Salim of the $240,000 hospital price tag. “We’ve got enough now to build everything but the offices. We just need to raise another $55,000 and we’ll be there.”

The new hospital will handle more than 200 clients a day and will treat over 30,000 patients per year.

A green facility, designed pro bono by an Architect for Humanity, Dr. Reuben Mutiso, the hospital will trap rainwater as well as use solar panels for energy.

Carolina For Kibera (CFK) fights poverty and helps prevent violence through community-based development in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya and beyond. The organization believes that solutions to problems involving poverty are possible only if those affected by it drive development.

The organization’s flagship program is its sports program, which uses soccer to promote youth leadership, community development, and ethnic and religious cooperation.

CFK has also created the Binti Pamoja (Daughters United Center), which offers safe spaces for girls and young women in Kibera and conducts HIV/AIDS peer education, and Taka Ni Pato (Trash is Cash), an innovative waste management program that empowers over 100 youth in Kibera by helping them create sustainable, environmentally friendly business enterprises.

Visit 4Real Kenya.

For more information about Carolina for Kibera, go to www.4REAL.com/salim, or visit www.carolinaforkibera.org.
 
 
 

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