Train A Healthcare Worker this Ramadan

Ensuring that poor people have access to high quality healthcare requires a qualified workforce of doctors, nurses, midwifes and pharmacists. 

Tanzania has one of the lowest ratio of doctors to patients anywhere in the world. For every 20,000 people, there is only 1 trained doctor. That's less than Syria and Yemen.

Afghanistan = 5.08

Bangladesh = 13.34

Iraq = 19.92

Tanzania = 1.02

Syria = 25.74

Pakistan = 22.36

Yemen = 10.5

(Data: World Health Organisation)

Kijana Kwanza sponsors children and young people up to the age of 25 years to acquire an education or vocational training including a range of healthcare subjects. 

Sponsored students receive the full cost of their tuition, accommodation on-site and meals as well as the support of trained welfare and educational staff. The annual cost of training a healthcare professional is £2,500 per year with each course lasting a minimum of 3 years. 

So far Kijana Kwanza has 5 healthcare students in training, and over the next 3 years they plan to increase this to 25 students.

All graduates of Kijana Kwanza's vocational training programme must commit to community service and to repay 10% of their salary for the next 3 years back to our vocational training fund. 

For more information about Kijana Kwanza's work, please visit www.kijana-kwanza.org

This project is zakat eligible