CONTACT
WAME is in touch with the people. We believe that to understand how best to help it is necessary to listen; to find out what they need; what their hopes and goals are; how they see the future. Only in this way can the mistakes of well-meaning but misguided "developers" can be avoided.
We listen, consult and listen some more.
WAME wants every contribution to be used wisely to help where it can best serve.
We listen, consult and listen some more.
WAME wants every contribution to be used wisely to help where it can best serve.
COMPASSION
We CARE about the people we serve.
For twelve years we have been helping individuals and families to obtain medical care and navigate the often confusing medical system. We have made connections with doctors, hospitals, arranged for transportation, purchased medication, arranged for needed laboratory tests, even donated blood to save lives and contribute to the health of Gambians. We helped arrange live-saving cardiac surgery in London for a young Sierra Leonean refugee. (He graduated from high school with honors this year!) We arranged for care for a young woman from the provinces with severe diabetes. We raised funds for life-saving heart surgery for a young Gambian mother. (She is doing VERY well!)
We have sponsored scores of children for their school fees, uniforms, books and school supplies.
For twelve years we have been helping individuals and families to obtain medical care and navigate the often confusing medical system. We have made connections with doctors, hospitals, arranged for transportation, purchased medication, arranged for needed laboratory tests, even donated blood to save lives and contribute to the health of Gambians. We helped arrange live-saving cardiac surgery in London for a young Sierra Leonean refugee. (He graduated from high school with honors this year!) We arranged for care for a young woman from the provinces with severe diabetes. We raised funds for life-saving heart surgery for a young Gambian mother. (She is doing VERY well!)
We have sponsored scores of children for their school fees, uniforms, books and school supplies.
CONSTRUCTION
WAME goes to work. We work to improve facilities at rural clinics in The Gambia and Senegal. We completed installation of a new water system in the clinic at Illiassa Village on the North Bank of the River Gambia. In the Outpatient Block there are now sinks in each room where nurses can wash their hands between patients. In the Maternity Block there is now a working bathroom with sink, toilet and shower. In the delivery room newborns can now be bathed in fresh, running water. There are working toilet facilities for patients and visitors. The kitchens and bathrooms in the staff quarters are now operative.
This is typical of the kind of work WAME does: solar power, water systems, plumbing, roofs that don't leak...
We constructed an outpatient facility at Noo Kunda Village. This multi-purpose building is used for teaching, well-child examinations, immunization clinics, and as a waiting area out of the sun and rain.
We installed window screening at the clinic in Jappineh Village. The patients will be able to sleep in a mosquito-free environment; a low-tech means of preventing malaria.
The new roof on the clinic at Saba keeps the rain -- and roosting bats! -- out.
A new maternal/child health center in Alikali Kunda is being used for well-child clinics, immunizations and teaching -- built by WAME!
And solar lighting just brought to Noo Kunda is helping deliver babies.