Provision Charitable Foundation
Now supporting 16 students!
Developing Medical Doctors in Tanzania
We believe the long term solution to the problems of poverty, corruption and bigotry is education and one major need in Africa is the development medical personnel at all levels of the medical professions.
Based on World health Organization statistics there is one doctor for 140,000 people in East Africa so the need is very great. (By comparison, there is one doctor for every 500 people in Canada).
Graduation of the First Three Doctors
On November 28, 2015, with Provision’s help and support, our first three medical students graduated. Eveline, Thomas and Abel began a one year residency program after which they will enter into practice as fully qualified doctors.
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Cost of student support
Each student receives an advance of $4,000 US dollars. $2000 of this portion is considered a loan, which is to be repaid to the University after graduation by regular monthly payments. The University has agreed that these funds will be used to address the needs of future medical students as well.
$1,000 is an advance to cover living costs for the school year and it does not need to. The funds are forwarded directly to the university after we have received confirmation the student has advanced to the next year.
Our Goal is to Train Medical Doctors to Serve in Rural Tanzania
Our hope is that the doctors we graduate will work in the rural areas of Tanzania where medical care is necessary and scarce. Our aim is to put together a rural medicine package, containing solar lights among other necessities, as an
encouragement for our graduates to move into rural areas. As a further incentive, for any graduate who agrees to move into a rural area to practice medicine, we will offer to pay back to the University the loan portion of their funding on a monthly basis.
A Little History
Provision Charitable Foundation began supporting students in medical school at St Francis University located in Ifakara, a medium sized city in southern Tanzania in 2011. In the first year we supported three students, increased the next year to six and now are supporting a total of sixteen medical students.
Our criteria were, and remain, very simple. Any student selected by the University had to have completed first year medical school successfully and be in an impossible financial position with no other support available. We also asked that at least 50% of the supported students be women.
If you would like further information we have personal information on each student and on the university and the medical school.