The ambitious set objectives of the foundation are further broken down into the following strategies:
1. Raising international awareness about the disease. This is crucial as very little information on the degree of its devastation has really come to the knowledge of those that can make a difference.
2. Creating the medium to increase awareness of the disease in the local community.
3. Building and operating Children Health Centres in rural areas where the disease is endemic.
4. Training more local medical personnel in the appropriate skills to prevent and treat malaria.
5. Provide insecticide treated mosquito nets to reduce mosquito bites on the children who are most at risk.
6. Marketing of our products with part of the proceeds used to sustain some of these services which are anticipated to lead to our financial independence.
These projects are therefore on a continuous basis as we execute specific programmes based on available resources.
Current projects: These include the
Completion and commissioning of our first children health centre for the second quarter of 2006 in Nigeria (see picture below)
Distribution of treated mosquito nets in chosen rural and regional children health centres in Ghana also due in the second quarter of 2006
Recruitment of partners and collaborators remain an active aspect of our ongoing agenda
Vass Medical Foundation Anniversary and The London KM10 Marathon 2006 (see news page)
VASS MEDICAL FOUNDATION CHILDREN HEALTH CENTRE
