Physical Health Palestine Project #2534

1st Palestinian Birth+Prenatal Ctrs, Jordan Valley

by Rebuilding Alliance

Project Report | Mar 21, 2012
Near to Fruition of Birthing Center

By Rudofo San Miguel | GlobalGiving Coordinator

Dear Friends,
I am writing to update you about the status of this project and let you know about important upcoming milestones related to our Birthing Center project.

First, our birthing center project is so close to fruition, just $800 to reach the Rebuilding Alliance portion of our fundraising goal. Why the Rebuilding Alliance portion? You may remember that altogether, this is a rather large project involving both training and equipment. Your donation helps pay for the training side of the project. Separately, there is a Rotary Matching grant proposal to fund the equipment side of the project with about seven Rotary Clubs (including the new Rotary Club of Ramallah and the Rotary Club of Nazareth) donating the first tier of matching funds. Just one or two more Rotary Clubs are needed to contribute funds and then their application will be sent to Rotary International to close the matching grant.
We will soon begin arranging a trip to Al Aqaba to coincide with the equipment installation and medical training on site. We look forward to arranging this trip through Green Olive Tours -- with travel through the West Bank and Israel, hosted in part by the Rotary clubs in both places. I look forward to sending you more information about this soon!
Right now, our plan is to install the birthing center in the Al Aqaba Medical Clinic (4 rooms plus reception area), however, our little birthing center could be the start of something much bigger. In the week ahead, Donna Baranski-Walker, our Executive Director, will travel to Jerusalem to meet with the office of the Latin Patriarch and their attorneys at the St. Ives Human Rights Center to ask them to lease the Vatican Land adjacent to Al Aqaba village to build a Rehabilitation Hospital. Let's hold on to big hopes -- our birthing center may eventually be part of a much larger hospital, and the village of Al Aqaba will see dreams realized instead of demolition orders.

Thank you again for your support, and your patience.

Sincerely,

Rudolfo San Miguel

GlobalGiving Coordinator

Rebuilding Alliance

rudy@rebuildingalliance.org

650-325-4663

Permalink

Dec 22, 2011
The Final Steps to the Birthing Center

By Rudolfo San Miguel | GlobalGiving Coordinator

Oct 18, 2011
Matching Grant starts in just a few hours!

By Donna Baranski-Walker | Founder & Executive Director, Rebuilding Alliance

‹ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ›

About Project Reports

Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.

If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.