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LETTER

STRATEGICAL GOALS

THEME EXPANDED

L

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.

A

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.

R

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.

H

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.

T

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.

S

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