Posto de Saúde de Cobué, Niassa - Relatório Final

O novo posto de saúde de Cobué está pronto e em funcionamento. Em Agosto de 2011, depois de uma visita aos trabalhos na sua fase inicial guiada pela mentora do projecto, a Drª Peg Cumberland, a KFTP decidiu doar mil euros como ajuda para a construção.
Recebemos recentemente da Drª Peg um email fazendo o ponto da situação, juntamente com o Relatório Final.

"As regards the actual health centre construction - it's gone well.  The communities took a very active role in making all the bricks and collecting locally available materials, such as sand and stone, on an entirely voluntary basis.  The actual building work was done by a small team of local builders, several of whom have learned their skills while working on other health units that the project's helped communities to build.  Some of the NGOs and government departments won't use local builders (despite it being a much more cost-effective way of working if the building work is done well, and the advantage of providing local employment) because of the frequent problem of misuse of funds and stealing of materials but we genuinely do seem to have avoided these problems by using builders who we know personally, ensuring there were good systems in place to control things like cement and involving the traditional leaders in overseeing the project so that the builders felt themselves accountable to the whole community.  When I spoke to the builders just before I left Cobue it was clear they were proud of how good a job they'd done.  We're pleased with it, as are the district and provincial health staff who have visited.  The local population is delighted with the building - they take it as another sign that Cobue is developing and that they're not forgotten. 

 Now our big challenge is to make sure the quality of health services available at the building is as high as possible, .  In the past, because of the lack of space at the health centre, the project team members wrere having to counsel and test people for HIV and perform other blood tests in a building 10 minutes walk from the health centre which made good coordination between government and project staff difficult and was often detrimental to patient management.  The new clinic building has enough space for us to centralise all the HIV services, allowing the government and project staff to work much more closely together.  Encouragingly the Provincial Health Department have said they'll provide a microscope and train some of the government and project staff to do things like TB tests which before we had to send patients to either Likoma Island or Metangula to have done - difficult when they were extremely sick, as well as being expensive.  And then there's the very important fact that, whereas the old health centre building, which had no false ceiling, was hot and unpleasant to work in and the lack of space and privacy discouraged the health staff from taking time with patients and examining them properly, the new building has well ventilated, individual consulting rooms and space for patients to wait comfortably, which should help a lot towards staff morale and encouraging people to do their job well.

Please pass on my thanks to all those people who gave towards the construction of the new building at the Cobue Health Centre and let them know that their giving enabled something to happen that genuinely will improve the lives of many of the 15,000 people for whom the Cobue Health Centre is the main referral centre.  I hope they will also be able to take pleasure in the fact that the participatory methodology used in the construction of the health centre, requiring the beneficiary communities to contribute themselves by giving their time voluntarily to make bricks and provide other materials, rather than depending entirely on external donations, has helped increase the beneficiary communities awareness that they themselves can play an important role in improving their lives and been an encouragement for them to continue working together to overcome other problems.

                                                                                Peg Cumberland, Maio 2012.

Consultar Relatório aqui!  

Campo-Aventura Solidário 2012 em imagens!

Cinco dias com doze adolescentes da Comunidade Juvenil São Francisco de Assis traduzidos em imagens, mas também em muitos sinais que nos mostram que a missão foi cumprida com sucesso!
Para este sucesso, além do contributo dos sócios da KFTP, dos participantes nas Travessias e dos dadores,    contribuíram a Câmara Municipal de Penacova e, principalmente, a Geoaventura, pelo apoio prestado e pelo material cedido. A todos, a KFTP e a Comunidade Juvenil de São Francisco agradecem.
Programa (aqui!)
Relatório final (aqui!)

Campo-aventura em Penacova

A KFTP, no âmbito do seu Plano de Acção, está a realizar em Penacova o Campo-Aventura 2012. Esta iniciativa visa oferecer uma semana de actividades de desporto-aventura a um grupo de doze crianças e jovens da Comunidade Juvenil São Francisco de Assis e foi tornada possível com os fundos recolhidos nas várias realizações da KFTP ao longo do ano e com o precioso apoio da Geoaventura-Actividades de Lazer e Desporto.
Ao longo dos próximos dias, a canoagem, a escalada e várias outras actividades ao ar livre estarão no centro das atenções dos participantes, num ambiente descontraído, proporcionando um conjunto de novas experiências aos pupilos da Irmã Teresa Granado.

Travessia de Verão 2012 - Fotos!

Grande jornada pelo Alto Douro Vinhateiro em kayak. O ambiente? O mesmo de sempre! excelente. Palavras para quê?! Ficam as fotos e as memórias.