1 Million Pound East Africa Campaign
on 23 August 2011
on 23 August 2011
Product |
Target units |
Target £ |
· £150 for a family food bag for 8 weeks (8-10/family) |
· 200 needed |
£30,000 |
· £300 for a water tanker for (3000 people)
· £2500 for a water well
· £5000 per share for a deep borehole (500,000 people) |
· 60 needed
· 20 needed
· 10 needed |
£120,000 |
· £7500 for a mosque (500 people)
|
· 4 needed |
£30,000 |
· £1000 per share for a Maternity hospital (500,000)
· £10,000 for an ambulance |
· 140 needed
· 3 needed |
£170,000 |
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH Facts & Figures
Hospital in Somalia:Muslim Charity’s first maternity hospital was established in 2005. Today MC is running 5 hospitals in Pakistan benefitting 1000’s of poor and vulnerable families.
MDG 4: Reduce child mortalityFor every 1,000 live births, 200 Somali children die before their fifth birthday (UNICEF - Somalia Statistics March 2010). One in 10 Somali children dies before its first birthday.
MDG 5: Improve maternal healthUNICEF estimate maternal mortality at 1,000 per 100,000 live births, which puts Somali women as one of the most high-risk groups. Only 33% of all births are attended by a skilled health worker. In the UK, the comparable ratio is 8.9 per 100,000.
A women dies every 90 seconds from complications of pregnancy 90% of these are preventableThere are a total of 429 midwives (including nurse-midwives) in Somalia, with a density of 1 midwife per 1,000 live births
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