HEALTH · MOTHER & CHILDGarissa · 20 Apr 2018

For mothers and children, a warmer ward.

On 20 April 2018, Fountain of Hope thanked the Garissa Community for joining the donation of Mackintosh bed covers and porridge flour to the Maternity and Pediatric Wards at Garissa Referral Hospital — a small way of saying Mother and Child health is an important aspect of society development.

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“Mother and Child health is an important aspect of society development. i would like to thank Garissa Community, for joining me in donating Mackintosh bed covers and Porridge Flour to the Maternity and Pediatric Wards at Garissa Referral Hospital”

20 Apr 2018 · @Fountain_FOH on X

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In the mother-and-child wards of Garissa Referral Hospital, four words write the whole story: Mother and Child health is an important aspect of society development. On 20 April 2018, Fountain of Hope and the Garissa community turned those words into Mackintosh bed covers and porridge flour — carried to the Maternity and Pediatric Wards for the mothers and babies who need them.

The story, in frames

A community that gives, together.

Covers for the beds where mothers recover, flour for the porridge that feeds small patients — donated by the people of Garissa, for the wards at the heart of the county.

Frame 01 / 04 Donations of Mackintosh bed covers and porridge flour for the Garissa Referral Hospital wards

Mackintosh bed covers and porridge flour — carried to the Maternity and Pediatric Wards at Garissa Referral Hospital.

Garissa Referral Hospital · 20 Apr 2018

Frame 02 / 04 The community's donations being received in the maternity ward

A donation that belongs to a community that gave together.

Maternity Ward · 20 Apr 2018

Frame 03 / 04 Handing over the donation to the hospital

The handover — thanking the Garissa community for joining the donation.

20 Apr 2018

Frame 04 / 04 Mackintosh covers and porridge flour for the pediatric ward

For the babies and the mothers — the two wards that matter most to a mother-and-child a county.

Pediatric Ward · 20 Apr 2018

— The donation —

Mackintosh covers and porridge flour, ward by ward.

Mackintosh bed covers and porridge flour were donated to the Maternity and Pediatric Wards at Garissa Referral Hospital. The Garissa community joined the donation — and Fountain of Hope thanked them for it.

Mother and Child health, in the words of the post, is an important aspect of society development.

20 Apr 2018

Garissa, Kenya · Referral Hospital

Garissa Community · Maternity and Pediatric Wards

Mackintosh bed covers & porridge flour

The discussion, unpacked

Health starts in the community.

What a donation of covers and flour says about the health of society.

01 What was donated

Mackintosh bed covers — the waterproof covers that keep mattress and patient clean and dry in a ward — and porridge flour, the staple of a warm, nourishing meal for young patients. Together they reach the two bedsides that matter most in the county: the maternity and pediatric wards.

02 The day, in facts

What

Mackintosh bed covers and porridge flour.

Where

The Maternity and Pediatric Wards at Garissa Referral Hospital.

Who

The Garissa community joined the donation; Fountain of Hope thanked them.

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Mother and Child health is an important aspect of society development. i would like to thank Garissa Community, for joining me in donating Mackintosh bed covers and Porridge Flour to the Maternity and Pediatric Wards at Garissa Referral Hospital

Fountain of Hope · on X, 20 April 2018

03 Why society depends on it

When the pettiest needs of a ward are met — a dry bed, a warm meal — the hospital can do its real work. And when a community donates together, it is not only the ward that receives: the social contract between a people and the health of its mothers and children is renewed, one cover and one bag of flour at a time.

The donation in photographs

Covers, flour, and a community.

Four photographs from the donation at Garissa Referral Hospital, 20 April 2018. Click each photo to view it full screen.

In the record

What the record shows.

The documented record of the mother-and-child ward support carried at Garissa Referral Hospital.

RMNCAHMaternal shelter, Garissa referral hospital

Distribution of macintosh

Date: March 2018
Reach / Impact: 1,400 macintosh distributed for women's comfort during delivery.

Documented in Fountain of Hope's portfolio of interventions.

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