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Providing health care where it's needed most
Rehabilitating & equipping two health clinics in West Ramallah
Beneficiaries
Direct Beneficiaries: 2,500 residents of Ein Arik and Jifna

Indirect Beneficiaries: 5,000 residents of nearby villages

Providing health care where it's needed most
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The health care services in the villages of the West Ramallah Area Development Program are desperately poor and are few. The only decent health care service is located in the town centre of Ramallah, which is practically inaccessible due to Israeli military checkpoints and roadblocks. The occupation has caused a severe deterioration in the living conditions in these villages and few Palestinian families can afford to see a doctor. Since its initiation in 1990, the Ramallah clinic has been providing free basic health services for registered refugees. However, the service is only available at certain times of the week and there are no specialists. Sometimes the refugee villagers are left without a doctor for several weeks at a time.
Non-registered refugees have no choice but to find a way to reach Ramallah and pay $10- 12 for a medical check up at private clinics. This is sometimes impossible due to the Israeli restriction on movement, as well as the lack of finance.


World Vision aims to provide assistance to these villages by constructing new health clinics within the Area Development Program (ADP) and supplying them with medical and lab equipment.

With adequate funding, World Vision will buy an ambulance to serve the clinics and the residents of the ADP, as well as provide training for aid workers and renovate living quarters for doctors.
World Vision also plans to initiate School Health Educational programs in the ADP villages.

Budget needed: US$ 20,734
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