THE HEALTH CRISIS

Rural infant mortality, at 160 per 1,000 is the highest in the world

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

On Idjwi, the lack of medical resources means that 18 per 1,000 women die during childbirth, among the highest rates in the world.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

110 children out of 1000 die before their 5th birthday.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

THE CHALLENGE

One million people in the Central African Great Lakes Region have suffered terribly for hundreds of years. Women and children have suffered most.

From Colonialist powers, brutal dictators, tyrants, ethnic wars to political violence and intense fighting for natural resources. Millions in the region have been slaughtered or have been subject to genocide, rape and enslavement.

Consequences are dire. Health care in many areas is non-existent. In the Great Lakes Region, tens of millions of people have never seen a doctor or nurse, much less visited a hospital. Basic health concerns such as malnutrition and easily curable diseases, reap a devastating toll. People die from the common cold.

 

89% of households in Idjwi don’t always eat, or don’t have enough to eat, or don’t have anything to eat at all.

 

66% and up of the populations suffers from intestinal parasites that impact physical growth as well as cognitive development

 

94% of women in Idjwi have never used anything or tried in any way to delay or avoid getting pregnant;

 

86% of Ban’Idjwi women have never heard anything about family planning.

 

92% of people in Idjwi have suffered from malaria.

 

17% of any given time the island workforce is suffering from malaria

But there is hope. In the center of this region is Idjwi Island in the Democratic Republic of Congo where Amani Global Works established and operates its first medical and nutrition center.

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