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Larah Memorial Fund makes voluntary commitments to effectively contribute towards child health care aspiration by facilitating the inception of a modern Paediatric Hospital in Lilongwe.
Among other functions is the role of coordinating other organizations working towards attaining good child health, mobilizing resources to help in building specialized competencies of a better health system for progressive reduction and eventual elimination of push factors causing the death of children in Malawi.
Our Mission
To provide quality, affordable, and accessible health care for children in
need, regardless of their background, location, or circumstances.
To fight for the right of every child to have access to the best possible
health care, regardless of their ability to pay
To save and improve the lives of children suffering from illness, injury, or
disability by delivering compassionate and comprehensive medical care
Helping child in Malawi
You are Just A Few Clicks Away To Bring Smile To a Child.
The Founding and Co-Founding Directors have profound memories of circumstances that require to be challenged in order to prevent the painful losses of beloved children.
In view of this, the proposed establishment is a product of extensive consultations and deep contextualization of various experiences and profound thoughts which were carefully truncated and abbreviated in the name of the daughter and guiding Angel ‘LARAH 27’ as appended hereunder:
LETTER
STRATEGICAL GOALS
THEME EXPANDED
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Life Saving Paediatric and maternal interventions Larah Memorial Hospital, Main Infrastructure (building) and Housing.
Right to live is fundamental principle of entitlement to all children irrespective of status preserved in the UN Convention on the Rights of the child and Africa A Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.
Directors for LARAH Memorial Fund make voluntary commitments to effectively contribute towards this global aspiration by ensuring coordination amongst institutions working for or with children, mobilizing resources and building specialized competences of health workers for progressive reduction and eventually the elimination of push factors causing the death of children in Malawi.
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Awareness of Family Planning Methods – Training Center (building)
The extension of the principle cited above is survival and development. The directors of LARAH Memorial acknowledge that excessive child bearing continues to impact on disposal income for many households. In a largely patriarchal society like Malawi, the girl child is a resulting victim. It is common that parents opt to invest more in the education of the boy child than the girl child.
In this regard, Directors are committed to contribute towards ending gender preferences by ensuring that families are aware of suitable family planning options to only bear children they will afford to raise, educate and transition them to become productive useful citizen, competent of contributing towards social and economic development of the country.
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Research and Training – Medical Laboratories,health IT Database Project and Digitalization
Directors make reference to recent Covid 19 pandemic which rendered the health fraternity is confused and deranged. The stabilization is a product of intense research in various Laboratories around the world to come up with vaccination, booster, and cure for COVID 19.
This specific episode under-pins that lives for children could be preserved if substantial investments are made in Research and Development of vaccinations and medicines quicker than it is the case at the moment here at home in Malawi. Directors are aware of increased graduates in relevant fields and the aspiration is to expedite the process of localizing the capacity than continue to import the expertise. By extension, Directors commit to innovate on non-discriminatory health database for children to ensure that irrespective of point of health service delivery any health-worker is able to access the health history of the child digitally.
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Advisory and
Administrative
Support
The Directors recognize the glaring gaps that manifest themselves in the
Health Centers and in some cases even in the Referral hospitals in the course
of delivery of services to children.
LARAH Memorial Fund is not being founded from a point of knowing
everything, nonetheless the Memorial Fund will endeavor to empanel a
community of Paediatricians that will consistently provide technical assistance
and advise the health sector on issues of children based on emerging trends,
innovations, best practices and research findings
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Health Policy influence and Investment Opportunity (engagement with Government and Donor Agencies)
Health Sector and Paediatric in particular is comparatively dynamic. It is therefore imperative that Legal and Policy Framework is constantly reviewed to ensure that it is responsive and supportive of circumstances on the ground.
Directors commit to establish a harmonious working relationship with Government to ensure that collaborative mechanisms are established in the best interest of improving service delivery to the children.
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Traditional, Cultural and Religious reconciliation – Cults, Chapels, meditation Centers (service and buildings).
Theme for 2022 International Day of African Child called on elimination of all harmful cultural practices. Directors entirely agree to this call to action bearing in mind that statistics of children that have lost lives, got impregnated and forced into early marriage, contracted sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and AIDS are extreme and alarming.
Directors believe that religious leaders require to be capacitated in respect of engaging local communities and how best to eliminate harmful cultural practices. LARAH Memorial Fund looks forward to invest time and resources into this area.
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Safe Place for Children (Climate Change and environmental initiatives.
Directors are committed to take solid and durable steps towards progressive realization of Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs 1-17 in the best interest that children in Malawi survive and develop to become productive citizens
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