Healthxchange Pharmacy donates £20,000 to the Tumaini Charity

Healthxchange Pharmacy is now announcing the first results from its donations to the Tumaini Charity, devoted to the development of orphans in Tanzania. Specifically, Healthxchange Pharmacy donated £20,000 to the Tumaini Charity to fund the education of students orphaned by disease and train them to become pharmaceutical dispensers. So far, 20 dispensers have been trained as a direct result of Healthxchange Pharmacy and are working in the local Tanzanian regions. Case studies from these students are available.

Pharmaceutical dispensers are critically needed in the Dodoma region of Tanzania – one of the poorest districts in the world. Average life expectancy is 43, with 28% of the population, and approx. 33% of births, HIV+.

Training regional orphaned students to become pharmaceutical dispensers effectively enables local people to increase their own economic means rather than purely receiving aid. This in turn helps its own economy. It also means the region and its own local people can contribute to its own healthcare sector, rather than relying on health aid agencies. This in turn increases not just access but trust in badly needed healthcare services to a local underprivileged population many of whom have not experienced healthcare access previously.

The Tumaini Charity, amongst a range of other projects in the region, provides education to orphans from nursery care through to government secondary schools. Tumaini then provides a 2-year diploma qualification for the best performing students.

Healthxchange Pharmacy wanted to contribute to not just providing aid, but a self-generating charitable multifaceted cause, where the money donated multiplies within a local economy and enables through education local people to provide their own badly needed healthcare.