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GlobalGiving

This April PHASE has been selected by the GlobalGiving foundation to participate in its Open Challenge - a great fundraising opportunity for charities around the world. To succeed we must raise $4,000 from 50 donors by 30th April. If we meet this threshold, we will be given a permanent spot on the GlobalGiving’s site, where we have the potential to benefit from corporate relationships and exposure to a new donor network. In addition, we could earn as much as $3,000 in financial prizes. Our target is much higher than this as, we need $30,000 to fund the Maila health post for a year. We believe the PHASE support network can raise $10,000 from 1000 people in 4 weeks!

We want to raise enough to fund essential Primary Health Care in Maila for a year so we are asking all our supporters and everyone they know to ask everyone they know to give $10 or £6.50 in April on the Global Giving Website www.globalgiving.org/7746

Programme expansion in Gorkha.

On 4th July 2010, a partnership agreement was signed between PHASE Nepal and DDC Gorkha and DHO Gorkha for implementation of community health programme in seven Northern VDCs of Gorkha district. In addition, an agreement between CWS UK and PHASE Nepal was signed on 5th July 2010 for partial funding of this programme.

PHASE Clinical Guidelines to be used widely in Nepal.
PHASE doctors Renu Prasai (Kathmandu) and Gerda Pohl (Rotherham) have been working on a set of clinical guidelines for rural health workers in Nepali language for many years, in cooperation with some other doctors and organisations. PHASE health workers have been using these and giving feedback ever since PHASE started. With the help of a grant from the Eric Gambrill Foundation, it became possible to get the guidelines ready for print, and the British Medical Association (Charitable purposes fund) contributed enough funds to make it possible for PHASE to distribute 1,000 copies for free. These will mainly go to the rural health posts in 10 hill districts, and will also be used by the governmental National Health Training Centre and the Nick Simons Institute, a large NGO
working in the development of rural health in Nepal. The guidelines were officially launched in Kathmandu on 3rd November. See link for details!