Giving to IPASC

IPASC works primarily in Aru district in the north east, where most families have an income of less than £100 per year and life expectancy is 46.  The government provides no funding for preventative health care and so IPASC has to raise every penny it spends.  IPASC does stunning work and this is an opportunity to help them to support their local communities.

Gift: A Life Sustaining Journey

£50 pays for a life-sustaining trip for people who are HIV positive to a hospital in Uganda.  There is no treatment for people needing anti retroviral medication in most of the country (the size of western Europe).  £50 will pay for IPASC to take 10 people across the border to Arua in Uganda and sustain their treatment.  Currently there is a waiting list of 90 people needing to make these regular trips.

Gift: A Week’s Food Distribution

£10 pays for the weekly food distribution for HIV positive mums or those looking after children orphaned through HIV/AIDS.  Folks come from all around – on foot and by bicycle to collect food which keeps them going when families and communities have often ostracised them.

Gift: A fresh water supply

£100 pays for a fresh water supply for a community.  After malaria, water borne diseases are the biggest health problem – 2,000 cases in the local health centre, last year.  Yet £100 is enough to support the local community to create a fresh and clean water supply.  The local community does the work with advice from IPASC.  £100 pays for the materials needed.  IPASC delivered 6 such water supplies last year.  Their co-ordinator suggested they could deliver 50 if the resources were available.

Gift:  An Impregnated Mosquito Net

£5 will pay for an impregnated mosquito net which will give protection to those most vulnerable – the young, the sick, the frail and those who are disabled.  Malaria is the greatest killer in Aru District.  Be part of changing that and saving lives.

Gift:  An Awareness Raising Trip

£20 will pay for an awareness raising trip to outlying villages and rural communities where pre-natal care is very basic.  The Safe Motherhood Programme involving both awareness raising and training has reduced the number of deaths of mothers at childbirth at one local hospital from 120 per year to less than five.  But awareness raising is difficult – there are no tarmac roads – you travel by four wheel drive or by motorbike, along mud tracks, sometimes in up to a foot of water.  A 50 mile journey might take four hours. Yet the impact is profound.

Gift: Student Endowment

£200 pays for an endowment which will allow a student to study for the three year diploma course in community.  Even the tiny fees charged for the course are often too much for the students to pay.  £200 will cover some of the main costs and allow another student to attend the course.

Responsibilities  integrity, respect and discipline are values on which the Institution focuses to achieve its mission and to establish its relationships  with its beneficiaries and partners. These values are reflected in the choices, behaviour, attitudes, and the qualities of the organisation of its personnel.

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