Provide lights for a network of midwives who currently deliver babies by candle and kerosene light.
Our clinic provides an obstetric service for Dili and surrounding districts. Some of these areas are very remote and lack suitable and reliable lighting for obstetric practice. Currently candles and kerosene lamps are used but are not ideal due to: fumes, cost of kerosene and candles, danger of flame in enclosed areas. The solar powered lights would be greatly helpful in this setting.
Solar powered lights would be used instead of candles and kerosene lamps.
25 mobile midwives x 1 delivery per night ~ 25 mothers and babies/day ~ 150/week ~ 7500/year The number of midwives continues to grow as more are trained.
Beneficiaries will be all midwives who are performing mobile clinic duties. Income < USD $80/month
In this instance, we would only give the products to midwives who have specific training and have reached a level of competence to practice independently.
| Item | Explanation | Unit cost | Quantity | Cost |
| Product | Cost of the technology | 30 | 50 | 1,500 |
| Shipping | Cost of international shipping | 600 | 1 | 600 |
| Clearance and local duty | Based on the average clearance and local duty cost | 1 | 205 | |
| Wire transfer fee | One transfer to tech provider, one transfer to cover local duty and clearance | 45 | 2 | 90 |
| Paypal/other payment processing fee | 3.3% average based on the average size of project and average donation amount | 3.30% | 91 | |
| Other | Contingency | 0 | ||
| Kopernik fee | In order to cover due diligence cost that Kopernik conducts | 276 | ||
| TOTAL BUDGET | 2,762 |
We are a small clinic with a high patient load. Financially we hope to be supported by NGOs but our non-financial contribution is significant. Training local women to be midwives, transferring difficult cases to our facility for more complex treatment and the time and efforts of our volunteer doctors.
Human Development Reporthttp://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_TMP.html World Health Organization informationhttp://www.who.int/countries/tls/en/ BBC country reporthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1508119.stm
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