Rwanda

Community Description
Musha is a small rural community that lies about 30 minutes from Rwamagana town.

Musha Health Center is a small health center that provides many services to the people of Musha and surrounding areas. These include maternity and delivery services, surgical and wound care, consultations, hygiene practices, and laboratory capabilities.

There is no running water in the consultation, pharmacy, surgery and pediatrics rooms. The lack of water is a hindrance to the quality of services that the health center can provide to its patients. Currently water must be brought in buckets by health care staff from the water pump in town for use in the clinic.

All rooms are equipped with faucets, and piping is in place. However, connection must be made to a reliable water source. The health center has a water tank that collects rain water. However, the valves are broken so the tanks are not currently being used.

Project Description
This project is to provide Musha Health Center with running water in the consultation, pharmacy, surgery and pediatric rooms. The existing sinks and piping will be connected to a water source and eroded and/or rusted piping will be replaced.

Rain water collection tanks will receive replacement parts and appropriate run-off attachments in order to ensure reliable water for health center services in both rainy and dry seasons.

Faucets will be installed next to the latrines used by patients and the community.

Project Impact
15, 432 people within the Musha Health Center catchment area will benefit from improved health care from this project

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Kara Rogers

Comments
This project will provide water for the rooms of the health center, thereby enabling it to provide vital services to the community. Through the simple installation of piping, gutters, replacement parts, valves, and faucets, the project will have a tremendous impact on the community within the large area that the health center serves.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$250.00

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Donations of any amount will be appreciated. The full amount will give you "naming rights", if that is something you would like.

Any contributions in excess of the Dollar Amount of Project will be allocated to other projects directed by this PCV and/or projects of other PCVs in this country.

Dollar Amount Needed
$250.00

Community Description
Ruhunda is located 20 km from the nearest regional capital, Rwamagana. The city remains largely untouched by modernity. While electricity and cell phone coverage are available, few in this largely agricultural region use these resources.

In the region in which the Ruhunda Health Center operates, there are 6 primary schools and 7 secondary schools. Students usually attend primary school in the region and then, depending on financial resources, begin secondary school at their local school or in a larger city.

Services offered at Ruhunda include maternity, general consultation for children and adults, minor surgery, family planning, vaccination, voluntary counseling and testing for HIV, and a vibrant community health worker program.

On average, the center sees approximately 1600 patients each month, including 60 in its maternity ward. According to Ruhunda’s director, it is not uncommon for the center to see 100 people or more each day in general consultation.

Common afflictions include respiratory illnesses like pneumonia and the flu, malaria, complications related to childbirth, malnutrition, and general wounds and skin afflictions.

The Ruhunda Health Center is fortunate in that it has adequate space for its daily operations, electricity, and a qualified and motivated staff. However, it lacks one critical element – running water. In maternity and consultation, the most frequently utilized rooms at the center, there is no running water available, and health professionals are forced to bring in water by bucket for daily needs and operations.

Project Description
This project is to provide water to the maternity, pediatric, and general consultation rooms at the clinic. Sinks will be installed in each of these rooms, and they will be connected to the water supply that exists on the health center property by underground piping.

Project funds will be used to pay for labor and materials. The Access Project and Ruhunda Health Center will pay for the transportation of all materials.

Project Impact
The 22,167 people who live in the cities of Gishari, Munyiginya, and Ruhunda will benefit from this project.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Colleen Laurence

Comments
Gerard Kaberuka, Director of the Ruhunda Health Center, made this plea for renovations: “Everyone knows that water is the source of life. If we receive water, then we receive life. Water will decrease disease prevalence and improve the quality of services offered at the center.”

Water Charity, through its Appropriate Projects initiative, is pleased to enable this incredibly important project.

Dollar Amount of Project
$497.00

Donations Collected to Date
$0.00

ADOPT THIS PROJECT BY CONTRIBUTING THE DOLLAR AMOUNT NEEDED BELOW

Donations of any amount will be appreciated. The full amount will give you "naming rights", if that is something you would like.

Any contributions in excess of the Dollar Amount of Project will be allocated to other projects directed by this PCV and/or projects of other PCVs in this country.

Dollar Amount Needed
$497.00

Community Description
Bisate is a rural, impoverished community located in a region of Rwanda that receives consistent and abundant rainfall throughout the year.

The Bisate Health Center provides vital services to the community, including deliveries, consultations, wound dressing, laboratory procedures and basic hygiene procedures,

The health center currently functions without running water in its rooms, making it extremely difficult for the staff to perform basic services.

Project Description
Bisate Health Center will implement a plan to pipe and treat water from its existing rainwater collection tanks into all rooms requiring water.

Some of the rooms are already equipped with faucets, and all necessary materials are available locally.

The project will be implemented by Peace Corps Volunteer Jessica McGhie, in coordination with the Access Project, her host organization, which provides health center management support throughout the District of Musanze.

Project Impact
19,500 people within the Bisate Health Center catchment area will benefit from improved health care as a result of the project.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Jessica McGhie

Comments
This project will have a high positive impact on the work environment for the staff, as well as on the safe treatment of the many patients of the Bisate Health Center. It is a critical project that the community has planned for, but has not been able to implement because of lack of funds. The project will have a widespread impact for a very small dollar amount.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$500.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has been fully funded, through the generosity of Six Senses Resorts & Spas as a part of their Clean Water Projects initiative.

We encourage others to continue to donate using the Donate button below, and we will notify Peace Corps Volunteer Jessica McGhie of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Jessica and/or those of her counterpart PCVs in Rwanda.