Annual Appeal 2011
2012 will be a milestone year for the Touch Foundation. In mid-2012, building on our success at Bugando, we will be launching our new and innovative Treat and Train program.
November 14, 2011 - January 13, 2012
Thank you for your support of our efforts to bring vital healthcare services to the people with the greatest unmet needs in Sub-Saharan Africa. To date, we have helped increase enrollment at the medical school at Bugando from just 10 MD students in 2004 to 590 MD students currently in training. Since inception, we have graduated 150 doctors and over 1,300 allied health professionals.
Treat and Train will expand our efforts beyond Bugando to regional and district hospitals. The program will rotate teams of specialists through these medical facilities, which will simultaneously treat patients and provide clinical training to Bugando students. Through this program thousands of rural patients will receive highly skilled medical care, many for the first time in their lives. These efforts will result in both a higher number of physicians trained and countless lives saved.
Treat and Train, as well as our ongoing work at Bugando, will be generously funded by the US government provided we secure the matching funds — a dollar of private support for each dollar of US government funding. We need your support to raise the matching funds, which in turn will enable us to make these life-saving initiatives possible. Any support you can provide will be deeply appreciated.
Below are sample costs of medical education in Tanzania:
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$100 $250 $1,500 $5,000 $20,000 $110,000 |
Outfitting a medical student with scrubs, gloves and other supplies necessary for one year of clinical training Transportation costs for a medical student to attend clinical training for one year in regional/district hospitals Textbooks for pre-clinical education (two years) for one medical student Creation of one nurse tutor computer lab Upgrade of labor and delivery ward at one regional/district hospital to improve maternal and infant care and enable clinical training Upgrade of one regional/district hospital to improve care and enable clinical training |