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Global Healthcare & Education Initiative
Dedicated dreamers to help the underprivilaged
A New York based NGO formed from professionals and volunteers aimed to run healthcare education projects worldwide. At GHEI we believe that our efforts can make a huge difference. Join us in order to make an impact and bring about transformation in our world and those whom we assist. Our goal is to be a catalyst for more dreams to be realized and more lives to be improved. We help people work together towards a more empowered and satisfying life.
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Healthcare & Education Projects
The foundation runs a number of healthcare & education projects in East & West Africa as well as the Middle East
East Africa
Kenya - Tanzania - Uganda
In the East Africa region we partner with local NGOs and medical centers assisting them with the services they offer to the community. Social non profits run program a pediatric surgical assistance in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. In Kenya additional programs include pediatric oncology as well as Ostomy care.
West Africa
Ghana - Gambia - Senegal
In the West Africa region , Ghana providing medical imaging support for the national referral hospitals of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra. Projects evolved from the donations of computer hardware to provide the needed infrastructure to medical imaging solution for the department of radiology and spreading to the clinical areas thereafter.
Middle East
Egypt
Collaborating with public sector hospitals in the capital Cairo, GHEI provides assistance to biomedical engineers onsite at two institutions; Abu Reesh pediatric hospital and Kasr Al Aini national referral hospital. GHEI’s assistance comes in the form of providing spare parts or consumable accessories to a wide range of instruments onsite. Blood pressure cuffs, oxygen sensors, neon bulbs and air filters are some of the many items that are being sent to the institutions to help their medical device maintenance.
About Us
We are a voluntary community-based charity and a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with a global agenda which is working with the aim to provide children and young people of poorer background and orphans with early learning, education, health care, socio-economic empowerment and ongoing support to shape responsible and productive citizens with neither political nor religious affiliations or ambitions.
We aim to provide underprivileged patients the appropriate healthcare needed through basic medical services donations that could be coordinated with the local partner district health facilities at the locations where the foundation operates its projects globally.
Our Projects
Our projects worldwide by genre are divided into healthcare and educational domains.
For the educational projects we run with local partners a student assistance program to help disadvantaged children to gain education.
For the healthcare projects they are in the domains of assistance with supplies to health centers or directly to patients to contribute towards surgery camps in collaboration with US based medical centers and NGOs.
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Volunteering
We strive to do it all. Our social services organization provides a number of educational and healthcare assistance programs to which help is much needed. We are looking for the following individuals who are looking to make a difference to volunteer with our organization. Opportunities available in the US to help remotely or through onsite international travel.
Sample tasks and duties would be for example running a fundraising campaign for a specific cause, helping with solicitation of medical supplies or grant writing of proposals. Written skills are highly valued for US based volunteer opportunities.
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Medical doctors and nurses
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Social workers with different disciplines and specialties.
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HIV counselors always welcome.
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Healthcare facilities workers of any background and experience
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Non-medical volunteers, university students for internship always welcome for credits.
Volunteer Work
With our mission always in mind, we work tirelessly to improve the lives of individuals from all walks of life. Volunteer Work is something that we take very seriously, and work to enhance each and every day. Our whole team of dedicated Social Services Organization experts and volunteers are committed to this cause and will continue to work for a better future. Programs like the pediatric surgery assistance is aimed to change a child's life with a low cost surgery their parents cannot afford.
