Updates on Past Projects
FUNDED: Provide 25 villages With Clean Water
From project leader Prince Inglis: One of the biggest things that we have done to change lives this year is to help the people in Mulanje to have potable water. Over 16 villages have clean potable water.
Our new target is the remainder of this vast area. 25 villages need clean potable water. Be part of these people’s story.
Your donation will help to buy 5,700 meters 50 mm of HDP pipe. This will be enough to supply water to the entire area from where our previous project stopped.
FUNDED: Life-Saving Formula for 2-Day Old Baby Edwin
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Original project description and video:
Edwin’s mother sadly passed away when he was born. This project from Prince Inglis will fund his infant formula, which will save his life.
ELWA Children’s Hospital Needs Our Help
Update from Margot: This is amazing! I have waited so long for this project to be complete! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! To you who have given, and some multiple times, please know that the sick children of Liberia thank you!!!
Original project description:
Over the last few years the inflow of patients to the paediatric ward at ELWA has increased. Most days we are full to overflowing, with mattresses on the floor and in closets. This is because we don’t want to turn any sick children away. There’s nowhere else in Monrovia where they will get care like they get at the ELWA paeds ward. The mortality rate of children under 5yo in Liberia is 84 deaths per thousand. To give you some perspective, where I come from in Australia, it’s 3 deaths per thousand. Quite a difference right?! We want to change that! With your help, we can keep our paediatric ward supplied with basic life saving supplies. Medications, including antibiotics and anti-malarials; oxygen tubing, IV lines and fluids, syringes, and nasogastric tubes which can be essential for babies who come in malnourished and/or severely dehydrated. Our paediatric program relies heavily on donations and we are so hoping you can help us!
FUNDED: Help Judith Smile Again
UPDATE VIDEO BELOW:
Original project description:
Judith had an accident 2 years ago and as a result, she lost many of her teeth, and others were left weak and shaking. It has been Judith’s dream to smile again like she used to before the accident happened but this seemed like it would never come true. Judith only eats soup and very soft foods to avoid damaging the gum and for the fear of losing the few teeth that remained within the mouth which are also shaking.
Judith heard about Hope Smiles through a friend and she came to seek advice from a dentist on how she can be helped. On examination, it was realized that her remaining teeth need urgent attention or else, she is bound to lose them too and she needs replacements for those that she lost to restore her smile.
As Hope Smiles, we would love to make Judith’s dream come true and make her a happy soul again. But to do this, we shall need your help. First we need to restore the existing ones by doing the fillings and extracting the ones that cannot be repaired; then later plan to make her a denture for the second phase of her treatment.
Judith is a single mother with a small-scale business that can’t help her raise the money required to have her treatment done. We are requesting our DonorSee partners to give us a hand in giving Judith a complete transformation.
$380 will help us do all the root canals and fillings and we shall come back when all this is done to let you know as we will be moving to phase two of her treatment.
FUNDED! Borehole Well For 15 Villages in Lilongwe, Malawi
Update! Project Funded and Completed! Follow-up video:
Original project description:
This project will drill a borehole well in Lilongwe, Malawi, and will give access to safe, clean drinking water to 15 villages, meaning that a total of over 4,000 people will benefit from this well. They currently get water from swamps where their livestock also drink, and this puts them at risk of cholera and other waterborne diseases. This project has the support of the village chief.
Prince Inglis was born in Malawi and still lives there. To learn more about Prince, watch this video.
FUNDED: Life-Changing Business For Village Community
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Original project description and video:
Check out the video above to learn about how a piggery could change the lives of the people in Njiwa village in Malawi, Africa.
FUNDED! 2 Pediatric CPAP Machines For ELWA Hospital in Liberia
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Note on update video from Margot Biggs: “I’m so sorry it’s taken me so long to get this video together! It is quite frustrating being out of the country currently, I am hoping to be back ASAP. My wonderful Aussie friend, Dr. Alison, has stepped in and made a video for me – you may recognise her from a couple of my other projects. This has to be one of the most exciting projects I’ve done thus far. These 2 CPAP machines are going to legitimately save so many lives of sick babies and children! Once again thank you from the bottom of my heart – you guys are the absolute best!”
Project Description: From nurse Margot Biggs, who works at ELWA Hospital: “Pneumonia is the biggest killer of under-5-year-olds worldwide. We see many tiny babies with pneumonia or fluid in their lungs, especially in newborn babies who have been born by caesarian section, or when babies are born with very depressed breathing. CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) is a pressurized air system that helps open up the lungs in babies whose lungs are failing. CPAP literally helps them breathe. The CPAP system we currently use is homemade by us! We take a bottle of water and pass the oxygen tubing through it in a special set up. High flow oxygen is pushed into the baby’s lungs which keeps the baby’s lungs open so they can breathe. Quite ingenious really and it does help, even saving some lives. The problem is that it is pushing very high flow oxygen into the baby’s lungs, and we have no way to control the pressure, so sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t work, it means the baby’s lungs can have too little or too much pressure, and so the baby doesn’t always survive. A proper Bubble CPAP machine will mean that we can control the pressure, preserve the baby’s lungs, control what speed we open their lungs, and support their breathing so much better! It will also reduce any chance of having complications from having too much oxygen. In a nutshell, Bubble CPAP will save many lives!“
Cost: $5,280
This project was fully funded and in a matter of a few weeks, the pediatric CPAP machines arrived at ELWA hospital. As of this writing, the staff has been trained in their use, and they’ve already been put to use.
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