How you can help

We still need funding to expand the existing Outpatient Clinic into an inpatient facility and dental service, to cover our ongoing operating expenses,  to construct volunteer housing, and to help our medical student complete his education.

Make a cash donation by mailing a check to:

4553 Crimsonwood Dr.
Redding, CA 96001
USA

Donate online:

Stock contributions are always welcome as well. For information on this option, please contact our Secretary/Treasurer (jlah4@sbcglobal.net)

Host a fund raising event, small or large. Tell your friends and colleagues about our work in Tanzania. Keep us in mind when you hear about funding opportunities that might be relevant to our work here in Tanzania

Be a Sponsor

Sponsor a Doctor or Nurse

Tanzania faces a major shortage of medical doctors, with an average of one medical doctor for every 25,000 persons, one of the lowest doctor/person ratios in the world.  Industrialized countries have approximately one doctor for every 350 persons.   This is largely the result of trained medical professionals leaving the country in search of adequate salaries and specialty training.

One way you can help us is by sponsoring a doctor or nurse?  What does this entail?  It simply means contributing to the salary of a doctor or nurse working at FAME Medical.  The FAME Medical Team currently includes the following Tanzanian medical staff: 1 Medical Doctor, 1 Clinical Officer, 1 Nurse Midwife, 1 Nurse Officer, 2 Nurse Assistants and 1 Laboratory Technician. As we expand into an inpatient facility, our staffing needs will naturally increase.

Sponsorship levels for salaries:

US $917/month, $11,000/year will pay the salary of a Tanzanian medical doctor.

US $500/month, $6,000/year will the pay the salary of a Clinical Officer.

US $500/month, $6,000/year will pay the salary of an experienced Nurse Officer.

US $375/month, $4,500/year will pay the salary of an experienced Nurse Midwife. 

US $200/month, $2,400/year will pay the salary of a Nurse Assistant.

US $500/month, $6,000/year will pay the salary of a Lab Technician.

Help our medical student finish medical school

Medical school and all higher education remain very expensive in Tanzania.  As a result, few young people can afford to pursue their dreams.  Thanks to the generous donations of others, FAME is currently sponsoring the medical education of Ahaz Jotham. Ahaz is attending medical school in Moshi, Tanzania at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center.  He is currently in his third year of study and will be coming to work at FAME Medical upon completion of his  program.  Help us help Ahaz finish his education….

US $500/month, $6,000/year covers medical school tuition and living expenses

Collect items from our Wish List

Thanks to the Medical Relief Foundation, FAME recently received a 40 foot container filled to the brim with much-needed medical equipment and supplies.  ASANTE SANA SANA MRF!   We are frequently asked by individuals traveling here, what basic supplies they can bring along with them.  Here are some items we always need….

• Betadine or Alcohol wipes in individual packets
• Children’s bandaids
• Ace bandages
• SAM Splints
• Rapid urine pregnancy tests
• Speciman containers
• Suture material
• Multi-vitamins with Iron
• Blue surgical towels
• Otoscopes
• Surgical instruments
• Thermometers
• Anatomic charts
• Gatorade Powder
• Scrubs for the staff - mostly mediums, a few smalls, and a few large (would love bright colors)
• Small dixie-type cups or old film canisters (for stool samples)
• Crocks or Crock-like clogs for clinic staff during the wet season
• Diamond pencils for lab slides
• EKG paper - full size
• EKG leads - standard, Marquette MacVu
• Portable nebulizers (battery powered)

Medical Equipment

The following pieces of medical equipment are greatly needed at FAME Medical:

• A portable ultrasound machine
• An incubator
• An electrocautery
• A teaching microscope (two heads)

There are 3 ways to get supplies/equipment to FAME Medical:

1. Smaller items can be brought over in a duffel bag if you are heading this way.
2. If you would like to pay the shipping costs, items can be mailed to the following address in Tanzania, well padded if fragile of course: Dr. Frank Artress, PO Box 667, Usa River, Tanzania.
3. Wish list items can also be shipped to 2584 Fenwick, c/o Meredith Bowen, University Heights, OH 4418. Meredith is our Volunteer Coordinator. She stores donated supplies for us and arranges for people to bring supplies over in duffel bags from the US.

 Volunteers

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the Foundation for African Medicine & Education.  We are eager to bring local and Western trained doctors and nurses into a collaborative relationship with one another.   Few Tanzanian doctors have the opportunity or resources to pursue specialty training.  By bringing in specialists from the overseas medical community, expertise and resources can be shared and services improved.  We have found that this exchange of knowledge  is a rich learning experience for Western-trained doctors and nurses as well.   The number of volunteers we can currently accommodate, however,  is somewhat limited. We are still in the process of raising the funds necessary to build volunteer housing on the grounds of the medical facility. Don’t let this discourage you, though. Write to us requesting our volunteer packet and or general information regarding the role of volunteers in the FAME organization.     

Please direct volunteer inquiries to Meredith Bowen at famevolunteer@gmail.com