Welbodi Partnership
Medical charity in Sierra Leone
The Welbodi Partnership is a Sierra Leone and United Kingdom-registered charity that works exclusively in Sierra Leone, where it collaborates with official and non-official partners to support the provision of maternal and pediatric care. The charity was founded in 2007 by British entrepreneur Tom Cairnes along with Dr. Matthew Clark, a UK pediatrician who visited Sierra Leone as a medical student. As of 2024, Clark serves on the board of directors of Welbodi, along with Sia Lajaku-Williams, Sister Betty Sam, and Carole Green, who is the Chair. The name Welbodi is derived from the Krio word for “health”. Welbodi is based at the Ola During Children's Hospital (ODCH) and works closely with other healthcare organisations in Sierra Leone.
Welbodi's goals and accomplishments
Child health statistics for Sierra Leone are among the worst in the world where nearly 1 in 5 children die before the age of five, mostly from preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria. The charity's aim is to reduce child mortality in Sierra Leone by improving the quality of pediatric care. Welbodi seeks to contribute towards the achievement of one of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals: to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
Welbodi supports the training of medical and non-medical personnel at the hospital, collaborating with ODCH and the Government of Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation to strengthen undergraduate and postgraduate training in pediatrics for both doctors and nurses.
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