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Donkey cart ambulances

last updated Oct 5, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Care for the Mother Project
Implementation Partner(s): 
APHIA II NEP, APHIAPlusNAL
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2010
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Donor, Government
Funders: 
USAID

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
10-49
Summary: 

Care for the Mother project is providing donkey carts to serve as ambulances for transporting women in labor to the local clinics because moving pregnant women across vast and sandy pastures to the nearest health facility in this hot, arid climate is not only a difficult task, but a potentially dangerous one too.

Program goals/rationale: 

Spanning the length of the Somali and Ethiopian border, Kenya’s North Eastern Province (NEP) is home to approximately 1.3 million semi-nomadic pastoralists. In this conservative Muslim region, many miles often separate villagers from the nearest health clinic and only an estimated 40 percent of the population has access to health care services. Donkeys are commonly used to transport supplies and produce throughout the area, therefore this initiative is providing carts on donkeys to serve as ambulances to transport women to health clinics or hospitals

Key program components: 

The project is manufacturing carts mounted on donkeys and will focus on producing more of them to distribute to the vast areas of NEP to help in transporting patients to nearest facilities of health.

Plans are underway to apply and scale-up the Care for the Mother model across the entire Northern Arid Lands region as an APHIA Plus extension, and it could even serve as a template for other countries which face similar challenges reaching conservative, pastoral populations

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