Building our Next Clinic!

Summary

We will build a clinic in an area of Jaipur to serve new communities including a settlement of the Banjara Tribe. The Banjara have a fascinating history and culture: Banjaras: Nomadic Culture and Lifestyle - Nomadic Native Tribes.  Our existing clinics are, and the new clinic will be, the hub of the full spectrum of services we offer to our clinic neighbors. The new clinic will serve about 1000 new families or about 5000 people who today do not have access to primary healthcare. See some images from the Banjara Basti community in the Gallery below.

Challenge

The informal housing community we have targeted for our 4th clinic has little or no access to government services or primary healthcare. Easily preventable and treatable diseases and conditions exact a heavy toll in the community. These result in immediate health issues, of course, but also affect residents' long-term ability to grow healthy families and communities. Women are particularly at risk for lacking pre- and post-natal education and treatment.

Solution

Save Kids Trust provides primary health care to families to treat common injuries and diseases. We also provide education on nutrition and disease prevention to equip our neighbors to actively participate in their own health and wellness. Our educational programs include a focus on women's health issues, e.g., seminars on menstruation, anemia clinics, nutrition for expectant and new mothers. Our livelihood programs give a boost to women with necessary training and tools to start a business.

Budget

Working with our architect and design team in Jaipur, we estimate the cost to build a two-room clinic (reception & examination) in the Banjara Basti area of Jaipur to be $40,000. This figure is for build-out of a clinic on a rented piece of property. The estimate includes all permitting, partial demolition of existing structures, brick construction of new clinic, plumbing/electrical, and outfitting the clinic with reception furniture, examination table, and cabinets for storing medicine. Alternatively, purchasing land for this project, which will enable a deeper investment over time in, for example, seminar and training space, will require an additional $50,000 for land purchase. We are developing the "rent" plan while we also consider "purchase" options in light of available funding.

Long-Term Impact

We have seen many families transformed across multiple generations because of the services we provide through our 3 existing clinics. We see healthy babies delivered to young women who were themselves malnourished babies treated by SKT 15 years ago. We see children going to college because their mother earns a living with the sewing machine SKT provided 10 years ago. We have every reason to expect similar results from our 4th clinic.