Healthcare
GOAL is increasing access to sustainable quality primary healthcare, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for vulnerable communities in many parts of Sudan.
Our programmes include building and rehabilitating health clinics, improving health practices and the diversity of local diets, and delivering seed and tool kits to caretakers of moderately malnourished children at the outset of the planting season in the aris North Darfur and Kassala areas.
Currently, 24 GOAL healthcare clinics are catering for 462,000 people.
We are also attempting to vaccinate all children of five years and below; engaged in extensive pre- and post-natal services; initiating public health- and nutrition-education sessions; forming water committees to ascertain where water points should be situated; and trying to ensure that at least 30 per cent of households have begun cultivating more than two crops.
GOAL is also supporting local health service facilities in Kutum in North Darfur State and Kurmuk in Blue Nile State by providing drugs and medical equipment. We are establishing water points for rural communities, giving public training on best hygiene practices, and providing emergency nutrition support for pregnant women and children less than five years.
For more information on GOAL's work in Sudan, click here.