What your money can buy

What your money can buy main page image When you donate to AMREF you make a difference in the lives of people in Africa. Below are just some examples of how far your donation can go. No donation is too small or too large. Whatever you are able to donate will make a difference.

  • $2,000 could cover the cost of building materials with the labour provided by the community for one major new well for a community of 500 people.
     
  • $1,500 could pay for a team of urban specialist doctors to fly to a remote hospital in East Africa. During the visit they will treat over 40 patients and undertake at least 10 complicated operations as they train the local health workers and doctors to undertake some of these tasks in the future.
     
  • $600 could pay for a toilet/washroom block in Kibera- a Nairobi slum.
     
  • $200 could pay for drip irrigation for two family's fields in a drought prone area.
     
  • $150 could help rehabilitate one local village well.
     
  • $120 could provide an AIDS orphan's gaurdian with a loan to help start a family business.
     
  • $100 Could pay for anti malaria bed nets for 12 families.
     
  • $50 Could vaccinate 40 children against polio.
     
  • $25 Could fund an AMREF water stall to supply clean drinking water to 600 people.
     
  • $ 5 Could treat a patient with life threatening malaria.

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