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“The first wealth is health.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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With basic health care,

75 percent of women

and children who die

from preventable illness

can be saved

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A health worker will

save at least 350

lives during her

career

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Training a health

worker in Tanzania

is seven times

cheaper than

abroad

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Bugando hospital and university overlook

Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa

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776 students, enrolled in 8 different training

programs, attend Bugando’s university in Tanzania

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Medical students

go through five

years of formal

training and an

additional year of

post-graduate work

to become

physicians

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One of Touch Foundation’s first projects was the

construction of a 320 student dormitory

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Over the next five years, Bugando will more than

double the number of doctors in the Lake Zone

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In November 2008,

Bugando’s first class

of nine medical

students graduated

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His Excellency

President Jakaya

Kikwete attended

the graduation of

Bugando’s first

class of physicians

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Along with supporting the

university, we are

working with Bugando’s

hospital leadership to

assist in infrastructure

and operating

improvements

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Bugando’s hospital admits over

60,000 patients a year

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The hospital serves 15 million people

living in the Lake Zone region of Tanzania

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We have partnered

with the Abbott

Fund to rebuild and

modernize three

laboratories in

2009

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Rural dispensaries are often isolated and

under-staffed

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“He who has health, has hope.

And he who has hope, has everything.”- Ancient Proverb

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