The WMF works to bring professional and effective mobile healthcare to children and communities in remote, rural regions of Malawi where access to conventional healthcare is virtually non-existent.
They are a small “dust on the boots” medical charity founded by two ex-NHS professionals in 1997 and supported by a board of doctors and medical scientists in the UK who have all worked in Malawi on their projects.
The charity has operated in Nkhotakota in the central region of Malawi for over 20 years and their projects are highly cost-effective because they enjoy the support of a small army of Village Health Volunteers, drawn from the local communities who play a key role in their delivery.
Their mission is to put an end to child suffering and dying simply because they have no access to medical care and they operate with over 95% of all funding being used directly on their programmes.
In 2020 and 2021 the Randal Charitable Foundation provided grant funding for the provision of the Mobile Health Clinic Project in Malawi.
The grant was provided to support the charity’s staff on the ground who were helping the local communities cope with the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Their priority was to prepare their response teams with supplies and also to educate the communities served by their mobile clinics on physical distancing and safe hand hygiene.
In 2019 the charity’s mobile clinics treated 42,132 sick children and trained 50 village volunteers in basic first-aid delivery.
Malawi in particular, is one of the world’s least developed countries and sadly some of those most affected by poverty and inequality are its children. Around 85% of the estimated population of 19 million live in rural areas where less than 3% have electricity, 71.4% of the population live in extreme poverty, with the average person earning just $268 a year.
Malawi is also still afflicted by a myriad of disease threats that have been successfully combatted elsewhere in the world and the situation is compounded further by poor healthcare infrastructure, lack of resources and inefficient delivery of services.
Travelling out from their medical centre, the children’s mobile clinic serves remote, rural areas in over thirteen village regions.
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