Pathway to Health. Rural health clinics in Zimbabwe

Mary Watson was our speaker today on the subject of rural health clinics in Zimbabwe.

Our past District governor Kevin Conway has been back to Zimbabwe 4 times to set these up and they are now ready to go.

The Rotary world help network has shipped containers to help the poor in many countries.  A great Rotary project.

Pathway to health will be a working partnership.

Challenges we face ----

Corruption.

Waste.

Mammoth scale.

Legacy.

What can one Rotary club do?  Is this the right project?

Solutions----

Partnership.

Mutual assessment

Follow through.

We must have a recipient, like a Rotary club.

We do want to do a good, but are not always sure how.

By using Rotary we are forced to follow through.  Reports.

We have 4 areas of Zimbabwe where there are Rotary clubs that are deemed appropriate by the government of Zimbabwe and this project is sanctioned by the ministry.

Each clinic is partnered with a Rotary club.

This has a good buy in from the local community and the local facilities have been greatly improved by the local community.

Improving local water supplies and the roads etc.

They are working hard to keep the costs down by buying local and using local labour.

We can apply for matching grants from our district who can fund projects to 50 cents on the dollar.

We can provide either a starter kit for $2.000 or a maintenance kit for $5.000

Or we can fund part of a kit.

The speaker was thanked by President Paul.