Operation Spare Your Lunch and Save a Child Life.

Have you thought of how your lunch money can save a child’s life? Truly the little money we do not consider much can actually save a life. Dolly Foundation a nongovernmental organisation based at Assin Fosu in the Central Region is running a yearlong project call Operation Spare Your Lunch and Save a child Life. Operation Spare your Lunch and Save a Child Life project is to make health service accessible to poor mother who cannot register their children into the National health Insurance. The whole idea behind this project is to fund raise money from Individuals to register poor children within her community into the National Health Insurance Scheme to enable poor parent to access health care for their children. With cash DONATION of Ghc 5 or Ghc 7, a child in Ghana can access free health service for a period of One Year, the same amount of Ghc5, or Ghc 7 can pay for a Lunch. We believe that if contributors give their one day Lunch money as donation, they could give a child one year registration of free health service.

The impact of a combination of Primary Health Care intervention activities on child survival, growth, morbidity and mortality is the provision of basic essential drugs and supplies for the treatment of common childhood diseases, treatment of the sick child, growth monitoring, health education, provision of antenatal services, family planning, training and supervision of Community Health Workers in Ghana. These activities in their totality have had significant impact on morbidity and mortality in children under five.

Dolly Foundation has already register 800 children into the scheme out of the 10,000 children expected to benefit from the project.

Despite significance reduction in maternal, infant and under five mortality rates in Ghana, it is unlikely that the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets could be met. Ghana could achieve the targets if effective maternal and child survival interventions were increased.

The need for this project is to help pay for the medical bills of children through the registration of children into the National Health Insurance.

Expected Result

Improved health of children
Increased number of children already enjoying the National Health Insurance
Public education – mother’s become aware of the need to take their wards to hospital
strengthened and stabilize to ongoing development initiatives supporting Millennium Development Goal 4

When ask the reason for not writing for proposal, she said that there are certain thing we need to help ourselves as nation. She believe that if at least if out of a population of 25million only 1000 people decided to contribute the life of this children will be save. One unique part of the project is that, she hopes that those who get register could have their card renew for them for the period of five year.

Rosina Akourkor Teye is a Founder and the Executive Director of Dolly Foundation a non-governmental organisation based at Assin Fosu in the Central Region of Ghana. Dolly Foundation operational areas are on Health, Education and Economic Empowerment.

She thanks Spy Ghana for publishing her story, She thanks individual for support her and call on other to contribute to a wealthy cause.
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