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Rotary Club: Escondido Project Title: Ambulance Boat for Ghana 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? The RC of Escondido learned about the need for a boat in Ghana to transport patients /from the hospital and to distribute polio and other vaccines along the Half Assini river. The boat's cost would be US$1000 and the outboard motor would be $3,500, both purchased in Ghana. The $4500 was secured and a check mailed to Dr. Gabrilla Nanci M.D. at the Yonkafa Project. In May Dr. Nanci emailed us that they had secured a donated boat that required some repairs and would use the funds to prepare it and purchase the motor. 2. How many people benefited from this project? Patients receiving emergency ObGyn care, vaccinations in the lower Ghana region of the hospital. The exact number is not known. 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? The beneficiaries are the general population in the area of the Half Assini Hospital that need emergency transportation to the hospital along the river. Also the children that receive polio and other vaccines that require a "cold chain" for safe transportation. This will lower the incidence of communicable diseases in Ghana. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? The RC Escondido members (125) that worked to raise outreach funds through Coeur de Cuisine, RC of Ojai, CA that supported with $2000, RC of Alhambra CA that supported with $500. 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. RC Escondido Rotarian Wendy Shafer, CPA had the inital contact with her client Dr. Gabrilla Nanci, MD who explained the dire need for transportation across the Half Assini Rive to the hospital and put our club in contact with Dr. Nanci. Johnny Watson contacted Dr. Nanci and learned more about Ghana, the area, the need for cold chain transportation of vaccines. Also Dr. Nanci explained many women and/babies in a complicated labor do not survive a 3 hour trip across the river. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? The Yonkafa Project is a U.S. based non-profit that has worked in Ghana since 2011 building clinics and shipping donated medical supplies to Ghana. The hospital in Half Assini is part of that operation and Dr. Gabrilla Nanci, M.D. is President of the organization and is responsible for the acquisition and operation of the ambulance boat. 7. Income
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