Project Overview: This project aims to make a significant impact on the lives of young girls and vulnerable children in Uganda by addressing critical issues such as period poverty, female attrition from school, congenital limb malformations, and limited access to healthcare.
Key Objectives:
Partner with Keep a Girl in School Program:
Address period poverty and reduce female attrition due to menstruation.
Provide classroom education to girls in local school communities.
Support local initiatives to reduce disparities faced by women.
Collaborate with Adaptive Hope:
Provide prosthetic devices for patients with congenital limb malformations or traumatic amputations of the upper extremity.
Partner with a local orthopedic hospital in Kampala to support their patients with these devices.
Offer Pediatric Physicals:
Conduct pediatric physicals for vulnerable children in local orphanages.
Address healthcare access limitations due to funding restrictions.
Project Activities:
Conduct educational workshops and distribute menstrual hygiene products to girls in schools.
Work with local community leaders to promote gender equality and support women's health initiatives.
Fit and provide prosthetic devices to patients in collaboration with the orthopedic hospital.
Perform comprehensive pediatric physicals and provide necessary medical care to children in orphanages.
Expected Outcomes:
Increased school attendance and retention rates among girls.
Improved quality of life for individuals with limb malformations or amputations.
Enhanced healthcare access and overall well-being for vulnerable children in orphanages.
Conclusion: This project will empower communities in Uganda by addressing critical health and education needs, fostering hope, and creating a brighter future for the next generation
Keep a Girl in School Program:
Benefit: They will receive menstrual hygiene products and education, reducing period poverty and improving school attendance.
Impact: This will help decrease female attrition rates and promote gender equality in education.
Adaptive Hope:
Benefit: They will receive prosthetic devices, enhancing their mobility and quality of life.
Impact: This support will enable them to participate more fully in daily activities and improve their overall well-being.
Vulnerable Children:
Benefit: They will receive pediatric physicals and necessary medical care.
Impact: This will address healthcare access limitations and improve their health outcomes.
Education and Empowerment: By addressing period poverty and providing education, the project empowers young girls to stay in school and pursue their dreams. In addition, this simple intervention of providing sanitary napkins, a bar of soap and clean pair of underwear monthly reduces teen pregnancy and child marriages, and improves local economic outcomes when women are educated.
Healthcare Access: Providing prosthetic devices and medical care improves the health and quality of life for individuals who might otherwise lack access to these services. Our adaptive hope device is light weight, easy to apply and durable.
Community Support: Collaborating with local organizations and hospitals strengthens community initiatives and fosters a supportive environment for vulnerable populations. This key piece to our programming allows for sustainability and share solution building between our organization and the local Ugandan healthcare team.
Global Health Impact is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating clinical rotation sites and global health experiences for PA and NP, providers and students. On our most recent trip to Uganda, we had the profound privilege of serving along side our global partners by , providing mobile antenatal healthcare clinics. Through the generous donation of fetal dopplers, we were able to train the local midwifery team and donate the devices to these rural clinics.
During our time at the health center, we distributed 217 Mama kits to pregnant women. For many, this appointment was the first time they heard their child's heartbeat through a fetal doppler. The joy on their faces as they connected with their unborn children was one of the most meaningful experiences of the trip. Witnessing this moment of compassion, connection and nurturing between mother and child is something that these villages will continue to cherish, thanks to the generous send donors like Doximity.
Our journey also allowed us to connect with middle school and high school girls through the empowHER project, addressing poverty and providing essential women's health education. By teaching these young girls how to say no to unwanted touch and normalizing menstruation, we initiated conversations that had previously been unspoken in the community. These discussions will have a lasting impact for decades to come, empowering the next generation of women in Uganda.
This trip was not just about providing healthcare; it was about fostering relationships, dignity, and empowerment. The compassion of the people of Uganda imPActed us more than we imPActed them.
