It was satisfying that during 2024 the Overseas Aid Alliance was able to fulfil its mission in support of development projects that addressed basic needs and benefited many thousands of people (particularly women and children) in 3 different under-developed countries around the world. Grant awards were made to the charity PHASE Worldwide in support of a remote mountain healthpost in Nepal, the Billy Riordan Memorial Trust to equip a new maternity unit in Malawi and the Waymaker Trust in NE India to help with their community work in Maraland. Our aim for 2025 is to continue supporting suitable projects in this way and at our AGM another grant award was approved that will provide St Paul’s Secondary School in Eastern Zimbabwe with additional solar power and enhanced sanitation facilities including a dedicated girls hygiene room.
Billy’s Health Clinic in Chembe Village, Malawi
Our donation towards the new maternity unit has now been forwarded to Billy’s Clinic and building work is underway to ensure that village women will in future be able to give birth in safe and supervised surroundings. Further progress reports and photos will be posted in due course.
Women’s development project in Maraland
Following our donation, the Waymaker Trust started work on the women’s community development project which will improve livelihood opportunities and provide better healthcare outcomes for local Mara women. Their community centre is due to open in time for Easter 2025 and should make a huge difference in this neglected corner of the world where services have all but disintegrated and poverty levels are running higher than ever.
St Paul’s Secondary School, Chinhenga, Zimbabwe
A donation approved at our AGM will enable additional solar panels to be fitted at this fast growing secondary school in Eastern Zimbabwe and will also facilitate the building of a brand new sanitation block with a dedicated girls hygiene room designed to improve privacy, safety and attendance rates for female students.
PHASE Nepal – Remote healthpost project
An OAA grant has funded a £15,000 project to provide ultra-sound scanners and other much needed medical equipment to 7 remote Himalayan healthposts including the post at Manbu in the sparsely populated and isolated northern distrct of Gorka. Two Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) work at the healthpost where they offer a basic primary healthcare service to the local population of 6,000 people in the shadow of Manaslu mountain (see photos below following a visit by Dr Nick and Claudine).
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