Hi! I'm Charlotte and I am 1 year away from finishing my medical degree with UCD. This summer, I will be volunteering in Tanzania, Africa with The Mighty Roar (https://themightyroar.com/projects/tanzania-medical-volunteers) at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Mawenzi Regional Hospital in Moshi. The hospitals are in desperate need of medical supplies, staff and funding. On top of volunteer work in the hospital, I will also spend a week volunteering in an orphanage near Arusha, Tanzania that is currently operating at maximum capacity and again with minimal funding and supplies.

I hope that with your support I can help provide medical supplies, provisions and medical services to the people of Moshi. Anything left over will be given to the Kupona foundation which you can read about here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqFhLlp5bDI, or to anywhere we see fit along our trip - I will keep everyone updated on our journey as it happens!

Any donations would be greatly appreciated to help fund this trip and make a difference. Thank you so much for your support!

Some additional information about Tanzania:

Tanzania faces an acute shortage of health care workers and has some of the lowest coverage rates of health personnel in the world.

Recent research has concluded that only 54% of the population have access to improved drinking water and only 24% have access to proper sanitation facilities. As such, many people are dying from preventable and curable diseases and illnesses such as malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea and malnutrition.

There are also many other substantial health challenges such as persistently high child and maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. A shockingly high numbers of women die every year (3 times the global average) due to preventable complications during or resulting from pregnancy and birth. Further related to this, more than 7 million children die every year due to highly preventable causes including diarrhoea, malaria, neonatal infection, pneumonia, pre-term delivery or lack of oxygen at birth.