Projects

Project Isiolo Vision

The project will provide a much needed hospital for high risk mothers. The modest centre, which will be located in the centre and at the crossroad of Kenya, and will be fully equipped and staffed to provide Level 1 obstetrical services. The project will also provide emergency transport and communication. The roads in the region are difficult to travel and require a fully equipped 4 X 4 ambulance to get mothers who require life saving services. Satellite phones and radios will link up villages to nursing stations and to the maternity hospital. MaterCare International will provide training courses for TBAs (traditional birth attendants) and midwives to refer high risk mothers to the maternity hospital where they can be monitored by doctors and nurses. These mothers will stay in maternity waiting homes located in the hospital compound.

The cost for the full project over 5 years is almost US$ 5 million. Today, we have raised over US$620 000 from generous donors, women's organizations, a few foundations, the States of Guernsey (Channel Islands), and the Italian Episcopal Conference of Bishops. Government and government aid agencies have not contributed at all. We have applied, but are constantly rejected. The main reason they say is that the region is already served. From our visits and from the experience of local TBAs and midwives- there are no services for mothers and they continue to suffer and die.