Healthcare for All

Breaking the cycle of poverty and ill health

From Poverty

In Togo, low-income families are frightened of falling ill.

Without proper care, easily treatable illnesses and minor wounds can prevent vulnerable families from working as they become at risk of contracting life-threatening infections. The inability to work forces families to sell their produce at a lower cost, plunging them deeper into poverty.

Families often delay treatment, or they self-medicate with unlicensed medicine brought from street vendors which can make their illnesses worse. For a struggling community, being unable to work develops a cycle of poor health and poverty, as individuals are unable to work while sick yet can’t afford the treatment they need to get better. 

In the rainy seasons, remote communities are unable to travel to healthcare centres due to extreme flooding which disturbs the rough terrain, further isolating these villages. Often this leads to expectant mothers having to give birth in their communities with little healthcare supplies.

To Opportunity

Working with local partners and the government, Deki’s ‘Healthcare for All’ programme focuses on providing positive healthcare solutions in rural communities.

Deki tackles healthcare challenges head on by building community healthcare hubs, which provide a safe haven for families to be treated for waterborne diseases, wounds and even provide emergency birthing facilities, eliminating easily treatable illnesses and alleviating poverty due to sickness and injury.

Along with a village healthcare hub, Deki provides tailored training, basic healthcare supplies, healthcare equipment, and essential medicines.

Long Term Project Sustainability

Deki’s community health hubs will provide medicines at a non-profit price, which will secure the long-term financial sustainability of the hubs. Members of the community will pay cost price for the medicines and materials needed for their individual treatments, alleviating poverty caused by sickness and injury.

Village healthcare workers are paid directly by the government to assist members of their communities but are not provided with a suitable treatment room or medicines and materials. This is where you can help.
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When low-income families have access to village healthcare hubs, they will no longer have to choose between leaving illnesses untreated, risking their health, or paying for healthcare using for their family’s daily food.