Programs

  • Program 1 [2020]

    Amani built and operates:A Regional Referral Hospital. The hospital on Idjwi was completed in 2014. It employs five full-time doctors and 20 full-time nurses, as well as administrative and support staff. The hospital is fully equipped with modern medical equipment as well as a pharmacy. It has 100 beds and two operating rooms and a neonatology unit. The hospital treats more than 75,000 patients each year while providing the following services: (i) Internal Medicine; (ii) Surgery; (iii) Pediatrics; (iv) Obstetrics and Gynecology; and (v) Laboratory Services. All medical services are free to patients with a special focus on children under five years of age, pregnant women, and the native population, which constitutes 5% of the population and whose life expectancy is 25 years. Clinics. Amani currently runs 21 health clinics in North and South Idjwi IslandCommunity health workers and neglected tropical diseases. From 2015 through 2017, Amani has trained and then employed 500 community health workers who conduct mass drug administration against three main diseases (Soil Transmitted Helminths, affecting 90% of the population; Lymphatic Filariasis, affecting 13% of the population; and Schistosomiasis, affecting 9% of the population) to more than 230,000 people every six months in Idjwi. Amani has recruited, trained, equipped, supervises, and pays another set of 206 community health workers for outreach to the community. They have four main roles: (i) identifying sick and at-risk persons within the service area and initial response (basic treatment and/or escalation to the hospital); (ii) educating members about best health practices (i.e., proper hygiene, prenatal and postnatal care, encouraging immunizations, bed-net distribution and usage, sexually transmitted diseases, hydration and salts for diarrhea); (iii) capturing data about health issues on Idjwi; and (iv) broadly dispensing specific medications for certain neglected tropical diseases such as intestinal worms. Nutrition Programs. Amani believes that proper nutrition is fundamental to good health outcome. This is especially true on Idjwi where diseases related to malnutrition are common. Amani has two programs to promote nutritional health. Child Nutrition Program - Our child nutrition program has three components: (i) the community nutrition program that feeds 250 children at the hospital five days a week; (ii) the community nutrition program that provides nutritious food to the 500 children in various villages far away from the hospital, and (iii) the clinical nutrition program for the severely malnourished children with associated opportunistic infections. Family planning. At the hospital and through community health workers, Amani provides education and free family planning options for community members. Girls education. Amani is funding teacher salaries and materials for a 285-student girls elementary and middle school near the hospital to allow attracting and retaining staff to/in Idjwi. Amani has undertaken this project to support the community for two reasons: (i) girls have no viable option for getting an education in the area and (ii) Amani believes that one of the key factors in good health outcomes for families and children is the education, empowerment and well-being of girls and women.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
    –
    $522.6K

  • Comprehensive Healthcare and Education Model

    Amani is building a replicable unit of primary healthcare delivery with: a) Community Health Workers delivering care in the home, b) Nurses and midwives providing primary (maternal, child and reproductive) healthcare in functional health centers and c) Referral hospital backing community health workers and health centers for complicated cases. It has started on the island of Idjwi with a vision to bring the model to mainland Democratic Republic of the Congo, with its best impact indicators being the Under-five mortality. Amanis big ambition is to create a template for primary care that can be replicated in the most impoverished and forgotten areas of Africa. Regional Referral Hospital. The hospital on Idjwi was completed in 2014. It employs five full-time doctors and 20 full-time nurses, as well as administrative and support staff. The hospital is fully equipped with modern medical equipment as well as a pharmacy. It has 100 beds and two operating rooms and a neonatology unit. The hospital treats more than 75,000 patients each year while providing the following services: (i) Internal Medicine; (ii) Surgery; (iii) Pediatrics; (iv) Obstetrics and Gynecology; and (v) Laboratory Services. All medical services are free to patients with a special focus on children under five years of age, pregnant women, and the native population, which constitutes 5% of the population and whose life expectancy is 25 years.Clinics. Amani currently runs 37health clinics in North and South Idjwi Island and mainland DR Congo. Community health workers and neglected tropical diseases. From 2015 through 2017, Amani has trained and then employed 500 community health workers who conduct mass drug administration against three main diseases (Soil Transmitted Helminths, affecting 90% of the population; Lymphatic Filariasis, affecting 13% of the population; and Schistosomiasis, affecting 9% of the population) to more than 230,000 people every six months in Idjwi. Amani has recruited, trained, equipped, supervises, and pays another set of 1,000 community health workers for outreach to the community. They have four main roles: (i) identifying sick and at-risk persons within the service area and initial response (basic treatment and/or escalation to the hospital); (ii) educating members about best health practices (i.e., proper hygiene, prenatal and postnatal care, encouraging immunizations, bed-net distribution and usage, sexually transmitted diseases, hydration and salts for diarrhea); (iii) capturing data about health issues on Idjwi; and (iv) broadly dispensing specific medications for certain neglected tropical diseases such as intestinal worms. Nutrition Programs. Amani believes that proper nutrition is fundamental to good health outcome. This is especially true on Idjwi where diseases related to malnutrition are common. Amani has two programs to promote nutritional health. Child Nutrition Program - Our child nutrition program has three components: (i) the community nutrition program that feeds 250 children at the hospital five days a week; (ii) the community nutrition program that provides nutritious supplement to the 500 children in various villages far away from the hospital, and (iii) the clinical nutrition program for the severely malnourished children with associated opportunistic infections. Family planning. At the hospital and through community health workers, Amani provides education and free family planning options for community members. Girls and Boys education. Amani is funding teacher salaries and materials for a 285-student girls elementary and middle school near the hospital to allow attracting and retaining staff to/in Idjwi. Amani has undertaken this project to support the community for two reasons: (i) girls have no viable option for getting an education in the area and (ii) Amani believes that one of the key factors in good health outcomes for families and children is the education, empowerment and well-being of girls and women.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
    –
    $2M