Projects supported by MCHS

These initiatives all have the capacity to improve health outcomes and to transform lives.

Fundasaun Alola’s Mother Support Group Program in Aileu District, which promotes exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life by providing counselling and mother support through a network of trained volunteers working at village level.

http://www.alolafoundation.org/

The Uma Ita Nian Clinic and St Francis of Assisi Workshop for the Disabled in Aileu: the Sisters of Maryknoll clinic provides carefully integrated community health programs tackling causes of ill health as well as providing primary health care. Their programs include an outreach mobile clinic providing primary health care and health education at village level. St Francis of Assisi Workshop was set up by the clinic as part of its rehabilitation program for the disabled makes and repairs hand-powered tricycles and wheelchairs and specialist orthopaedic footwear to aid mobility. All workers at the workshop are disabled.

Projetu Hanoin Moris- The Living Memory Project – o which focuses on the ex-political prisoners, their experiences and health needs. This project has great significance for international human rights as well as being part of the recent history of the struggle for independence. MCHS is seeking partners to assist with funding the health care program and for the establishment of a video archive of the prisoners’ stories.

District Health Facilities: Health facilities generally are basic and poorly resourced. MCHS has provided a four vehicle drive vehicle for transporting patients to the Aileu District hospital and clinics.  MCHS together with other Friends of Aileu partners are seeking to fund the rehabilitation of a building at the rear of the district hospital to provide a 24 hour residential nurses station to provide overnight accommodation for midwives.