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Health Financing and Transforming Trash
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THE PROJECT:
People do not seek
healthcare if they cannot afford it and do not
know how much a clinic visit may cost.
MHOP has two strategies to try to solve this
problem. Firstly, we research new ways to
pay for and administer a health system that
encourages people to seek care early, sharing
these measures with a new goverment program
that will pay for the 5% most indigent people
to access care (RAMED). Secondly, we
explore income generation activities that could
directly pay for the most indigent people.
Transforming Trash (Mana Bayelema) is
one of these ideas. The program would pay women
to bring in plastic trash to a recycling
center, melt down the plastic using a solar
melter, and create paving stones with the
material. These paving stones would be
sold on the private market and the profit
re-invested in the program and clinic costs.
THE INNOVATION:
- Encouraging early care.
our strategies to encourage early care can be
shared across West Africa. Early care
means a much less expensive cure.
- Quadruple bottom
line. Mana Bayelema will create
four positive outcomes: increased clinic
visits, employment, waste management, and a
paved road to the clinic.
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"When you are in the dirt
of unity, you are not in bad dirt!"
Mogo mana ke je nogo ro, nogo jugu
te. -Bambara proverb.
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