By Tom Neill | Operations Manager
Hello Friends and Supporters,
As we look back on the first half of 2014, we are sincerely appreciative for all of the support we have received from volunteers, donors, colleagues, friends, and family over the years. We wouldn't be where we are without you and we are profoundly grateful. That being said, our work is far from done.
Our innovative health worker training programs have proven to reduce mortality from the most common causes of death in Uganda like malaria, pneumonia, and trauma. Due to this success, we are working hard to scale up our pioneering programs to build on past successes and prove, yet again, that specially trained Emergency Care Practitioners save lives and improve outcomes on a daily basis, and they do so at a fraction of the cost to the overall health system.
In our most recent blog post, you can read about two and a half year old, Precious, who was brought to the emergency department in Nyakibale by her father. She was too weak to hold her head up, too tired to cry as her father carried her in. Her body lay motionless on the stretcher, her skin unnaturally pale. Precious and her parents had traveled a long road to reach the hospital. Read more about how fortunate Precious was to be treated at the only Emergency Department in rural sub-Saharan Africa by specially trained providers in emergency medicine HERE.
In addition, you can read this excellent piece about the perceptions of GECC's Emergency Care Practitioner program written by Kisoke Tobias - GECC's Research Coordinator in Nyakibale. He provides a unique perspective by the Ugandan community on our work in rural Ugnada. In his post, Tobias remarks how "distance traveled by patients to reach the ED is a clear indication of how worthy the care provided there is".
We are writing you today because today is a very important day for GECC. Today and today ONLY Global Giving is matching every donation (up to $1,000) to GECC by 50%. Starting at 9am Eastern, every dollar you donate will provide us with $1.50 to expand our work training ECPs to provide life saving care in resource limited settings. We are at a critical juncture as our expansion in Kenya needs $100,000 to move foreward and our scaling up in Uganda needs a similar amount to get the program up and running at one of Uganda's ten Regional Referral Hospitals. We plan to fund these expansion programs with a combination of grants and donations from people like you - so every dollar counts! Donate HERE
Thank you for your continued support and for creating sustainable change and improving the lives of others around the world. We assure you that your hard earned dollars will be used to expand our life saving ECP training programs in Uganda and Kenya. As always, please tell you friends and family about the important work that you are doing through your support of GECC and ask that they get involved as well. Together we continue to change lives.
With gratitude,
Tom Neill, Operations Director, GECC
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