Health Projects
Clinics
The Funzi and Bodo Trust has opened two clinics giving people access to a health professional and medicines seven days a week. Nurses are on call 24 hours a day and a vehicle is ready to take very serious cases to the nearest hospital.
Birthing rooms
Giving birth at home onto mud floors was the usual practise before the Funzi and Bodo Truist was founded. It resulted in deaths of both mothers and babies. The charity has clean birthing rooms in both villages with modern medical equipment and a trained nurse available twenty-four hours a day.
Laboratory
In Africa conditions like malaria claim millions of lives every year and especially among children. Our laboratory with a full time technician can test for all sorts of illness and disease and with an instant diagnosis we can refer people for hospital or specialist treatment immediately.
Mobile Parasite Clinics
The Trust tours villages removing painful parasites which burrow into the hands and feet of children causing them great discomfort and pain. This service is also prized by elderly people who are isolated in their homes.
Funding Operations
The Funzi and Bodo Trust either fully funds or provides part funding got patients who have conditions which cannot be treated in our clinics. This has included major heart operations on children , cancer treatment and conditions like hernias.
Disability Care
The Funzi and Bodo |Trust has a disability centre for children and adults. It has helped children learn to walk and to be able to learn skills which offer them opportunities for independence later in life. Two professionals work in the centre
Sanitation
The Funzi and Bodo Trust has improved health by providing better sanitation. Both villages lacked any toilets. There are now over 200 toilets for homes and at the schools and clinics. A reduction in illness has followed.
Water
The Funzi and Bodo Trust has improved access to clean water, It has built rain capture tanks and has capped wells . With climate change causing drought this is a growing need.
