This is Global Health/The Global Aim

Welcome to The Global Health Campaign

The Global Health Campaign is a new charity created to develop free sustainable healthcare in rural Africa where little to no healthcare is available. Many organizations provide medical aid in developing countries across the world, be it part of disaster relief or a more prolonged effort to support communities. However, whilst aid is an extremely important element of our support for such communities, one disadvantage with the structure of aid is that even prolonged support often fails to provide any sustained development for the future. Some schemes work closely with existing hospitals to better support local communities; a system that is effective within the immediate area. However very little is being done to take truly sustainable healthcare out into rural Africa, developing a system that can grow with a community and continue to affect lives.

This is where The Global Health Campaign comes in. We will be working closely with rural communities to develop a system of healthcare solutions that best serve their medical needs.

This will take place through two main elements.

Cutting edge hospitals will be developed that will form the centre of our healthcare scheme within an area. These hospitals will be optimized for ease of construction and expansion and will contain all the necessities for a healthy life whilst focusing more predominantly on the treatment of certain issues, such as providing a true sterile delivery room for pregnant mothers.

Mobile healthcare systems will be implemented to serve the areas immediately surrounding one of our central hospitals. Whilst we aim to make our hospitals easy to construct, it simply isn’t possible to serve all areas immediately at once. With this in mind The Global Health Campaign aims to implement a series of mobile healthcare systems which will allow a member of our trained medical staff to go out into the communities near one of our central hospitals and treat people on a regular basis. This means that people will get consistent treatment from the same doctor each week and will no longer need to walk long distances to their nearest medical centre; which sadly even if they are lucky enough to have one within walking distance,often falls short of their needs due to lack of sustained support.

Economic Development

As part of out plans for sustainability, The Global Health Campaign aims to develop training programs within our hospitals that will allow members of the local community to be trained to work in a variety of jobs at our centre's. This will bring work into the community, aiding local economic development.

Community Challenge Grants

All our hospitals will be developed under a community challenge grant. This is a scheme by which prospective communities are challenged by The Global Health Campaign to aid in the construction of the hospital. This means that whenever a community approaches us to develop a hospital in their area, we make a proposal that we will provide the materials and knowledge to run the hospital providing that the community can donate both the land and labour required to construct it.

This system is widely used by charities constructing education facilities throughout the developing world and is regarded as the best way to integrate a donated facility into a community as the people of the community are heavily involved in the construction of the facility and take control of the building once it is completed. Leading to the new facility being seen as a true part of the local community and not just a gift.

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Our Guidelines

Despite being a new charity, here at The Global Health Campaign we are already working hard on building a strong foundation for our future and the futures of everyone we aim to help. At the core of everything we do are four guidelines that we feel will allow us to create a prosperous future for The Global Health Campaign itself and for the communities we work with.

All our actions should be transparent. The Global Health Campaign aims to do away with the vague figures often published by charities and make it plain and clear exactly what we are doing and what we have spent. Our financial records will be published on this website every year so that those who wish to see exactly what we have raised, what we have spent and how we have spent it can do so with ease. We will also regularly publish details on the work that we have done, a running tally of hospitals we’ve built, mobile healthcare systems implemented and lives affected by our work will be also be available online.

Our work should always aim to be sustainable. The Global Health Campaign was created to revolutionize healthcare in rural Africa, to do this we need to create healthcare solutions that can be sustained as communities expand. This means that we need to go beyond the normal aid which is found throughout the developing world. Therefore alongside our hospitals and mobile healthcare systems, we will be working to develop local business such as farms. A farm is a particularly beneficial local business as it can be built directly alongside our hospital and can server two purposes.

i.	A wide variety of fresh food can be produced on site, which can be used to help treat malnutrition in patients.
ii.	More food than is required by the hospital can be produced at the farm, which can then be sold on at local markets, helping to support the hospital. Businesses such as farms also provide more jobs for the local community, helping to develop the community and sustain the hospital.

Our work should always reflect our one main goal. The Global Health Campaign was created to bring free sustainable healthcare to rural Africa and revolutionize the way we think about charity. This means that we must never be afraid to stand up for our desire to do things right. It would be easy for us to get caught up in both our own and the publics desire to see fast results from our work. However if we are to make a real sustained change in African healthcare we must focus on making sure that we are always doing the best we can. Our results may take time, but our work will be right.

Our work must always connect with the public. We wish to change the way people interact with charities, allowing them to feel truly passionate about our work. Therefore each campaign that we do must make an effort to connect with the public in a way that most charities neglect. We don’t want to simply take the money people help us to raise. We want them to feel connected with the work we are doing; after all without the support of the public it will not be possible for us to make a change on a global scale.