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Community healthcare for women in Cambodia
Around the world, women and girls suffer silently from illness, disease and death caused by a lack of sufficient healthcare facilities. In Cambodia, over 95% of women in rural areas do not have access to any kind of medical care. The few women who do manage to reach a health centre often find that the medical supplies have run out. In the absence of proper health services, women often use traditional midwives, who are untrained even in basic sanitation.
Vor Lin is 36 years old and lives in Kampong Thom province. She has been ill for years, but does not know what is wrong as she has never seen a doctor. She is in desperate need of treatment, but her family barely has enough money to feed themselves.
The project – healthcare for life in Cambodia
The project will set up 30 community health centres, which will provide women in Cambodia with access to experienced birth attendants, contraception, medical supplies, basic check ups and referrals where necessary. The new health facilitators will provide regular workshops on different areas of healthcare.
This project will also establish a community healthcare programme which will provide 20,000 people in rural Cambodia with access to healthcare facilities. The project will provide leadership training to 12 experienced health facilitators, who will then go on to train another 60 women across 30 villages to become volunteer health facilitators themselves.
This project will help thousands of women in Cambodia to address their own health needs for a happier and healthier future.
What your support means to women like Vor Lin:
- £45 could provide 30 women in rural Cambodia with access to health facilities
- £116 could provide 2 villages with regular health workshops for one year
- £400 could provide enough medicines and materials for one community health centre
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*Donating to priority projects
photo : ©Jack Picone/ActionAid
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£45 could provide 30 women in rural Cambodia with access to health facilities.
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