Why will my donation make a difference?

• Among the top 20 countries with the highest Malaria prevalence and mortality rates.

• Malaria continues to be a major public health problem and is responsible for approximately 7 million cases and 36% of outpatient visits across all ages (2020). The disease is preventable with mosquito nets and treatable with the right medication.

• In 2022, Salima District Council stated that Malaria remains one of the biggest killers in the district, accounting for 25 percent of total deaths.

• Ngolowindo community is near a lake and swamp land so risk of Malaria is higher than other areas and pregnant mothers and newborn babies are at serious risk because Malaria treatments can lead to foetal harm to the baby.

• Unfortunately, the perceived severity of Malaria is low in Malawi, so it is difficult to convince people to adopt prevention and treatment measures. In Ngolowindo, this is less of a challenge because of Hope Clinic raising awareness and being so accessible to the community.

Hope Clinic has been improving health and wellbeing since 2020. Services include antenatal care, under-fives clinic, HIV testing and counselling, Antiretroviral Therapy and a general outpatients clinic, seeing over 2,000 attendances per month.   

Hope Clinic is already helping families and is well trusted in the community

This pregnant lady is travelling by bicycle to the clinic. It costs £2 for a motorcycle taxi to hospital (13km away), which is more than a day’s wages so some mothers endure a long walk, through rough countryside, whilst in the late stages of pregnancy, and some do not make it to hospital, but give birth on the way. The maternity wing will provide a safe, easily accessible place for ladies to give birth with expert care and good medical facilities to help protect mothers and babies.

Apatsa shares:

“Health surveillance assistants come to the clinic every day and are doing a good job in treating our children. It’s a relief to have these services and medicines available for free, just a few doors away, when our children are not feeling well or their growth is not going well.”

Gloria shares her story about how the nutrition clinic has protected and changed her baby’s life.

“My baby was born weighing 2.5kg and he had sucking problems when breast feeding and floppy muscles. I was reluctant to accept that he was malnourished as I thought he was bewitched. But I visited Hope Clinic when he had a fever and he was treated. I was given peanut paste and was taught how to make healthy porridge for him. He is now 2 months old and he weighs 5.2kgs.”