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To donate to this Family Care Foundation Project, please note Project NAME and then click here. Strengthening the Medical Infrastructure of Cambodia For several years now, Side by Side International (SBSI) has been exporting humanitarian aid in the form of emergency vehicles such as ambulances to various countries in Asia and Africa, and in particular to Cambodia. SBSI focuses most of their work in Cambodia, doing a lot to strengthen the medical infrastructure of the country as follows: Ambulance and Emergency Services 911 Equivalent
In 2008, SBSI brought into Cambodia 17 ambulances, fire trucks and mobile command units and other emergency vehicles, and medical equipment, for the express purpose of establishing Cambodia’s first 911 Emergency response program (known as “119” locally), undertaking this with the Cambodian government and local partners.
In November 2008, four ambulances, which SBSI sent to Cambodia, using funds granted from the Japanese government, were officially donated to the Minister of Health of Cambodia, also accompanied by the Cambodian Secretary of State and a top representative from the Japanese Embassy.
The Japanese non-profit organization, TICO, trains emergency paramedics and nurses in Cambodia, and has established the network system with public hospitals and the administration.
Another organization partnering with Side by Side International is “JPR”, a Japanese organization training Cambodians in paramedic rescue techniques. Coupled with this undertaking, the American “Medical Team International” (MTI) completed the first emergency medical service manual and instructional DVD in the Cambodian language, which is being incorporated into the training package.
The point man for Side by Side International in Cambodia is intricately involved in the creation of the 911 system, as well as the design and construction of a medical health center in Koh Kong province.
Koh Kong Medical Clinic
A medical center is being completed along National Road 4, a heavily trafficked connector between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, the country’s main port city and growing tourist destination.
Unfortunately, fatal car accidents rank as the second highest cause of deaths in Cambodia, which holds the ominous record of having the most traffic accidents of any nation in South East Asia. Thus the pertinent placement of this medical facility on this major artery has already had major impact in saving lives. The heavily traveled National Road 4 is infamously linked to numerous traffic accidents, all the more a problem in that there have been no hospitals with proper facilities nearby, and no public ambulance system.
So this medical facility is designed to dispatch ambulances to the site of road accidents allowing immediate paramedic assistance en route to the Medical Clinic itself and/or to a hospital in the capital, Phnom Penh, depending on seriousness of the injuries.
The designer of this facility has created an amazing eco-friendly, state-of-the-art medical center that incorporates all forms of renewal energy, coupled with high-tech organic agriculture that will provide food, rice and fish for the patients and local residents, while also providing an air conditioning like effect for the entire 2-storey Medical building, in addition to natural technology that retards the entry of malaria carrying mosquitoes. (The eventual plan will be to build a teaching university adjacent to the Medical Center, where students from other South East Asian countries could come and study the model, to be replicated elsewhere.)
Family Care Foundation contributed the solar electricity generating system for the Medical Center necessary to run the equipment, since there is no other source of electricity. And this facility and ambulances will be linked into the Emergency Response Program in the Phnom Penh as part of a greater strategic plan to extend the network throughout all the various transportation arteries of the country. At present, the only communications between Phnom Penh and the medical center is by mobile telephone. Soon they hope to have the GPS system set up in at least 5 ambulances covering National Road #4. It’s just a matter of erecting another 30 meter antenna along the way. (National Road #3 heading north to Siem Reap is next targeted to be added to the network.)
Strengthening the Educational Infrastructure of Cambodia IT Computer Training
Sponsoring Teachers for Rural Schools
Side By Side International has supported key orphanages in Cambodia, and in some cases undertakes direct sponsorship of paying teachers’ salaries that assist in the education of children living in extreme poverty.
Side By Side International designed a bilingual educational book for Cambodia which is distributed in orphanages, centers for disabled children and poor rural public schools.
Promoting Humanitarian Tourism
Side By Side International has organized various study tours to Cambodia for members of the student association “Graphis”. These Japanese students in turn held a fund raiser in their home country and raised $14,000 to fix the 8 km. road between the new health clinic and the highway.
"Graphis” consists of students drawn from about 30 universities, and their whole purpose is to help Cambodian children. Having said that, the organization has only begun sending students overseas and providing them with hands on involvement in humanitarian programs.
Awareness Seminars, and Counseling High Risk Youth
Other Humanitarian Aid Shipping Humanitarian Aid Internationally Side by Side International (SBSI) was established with the vision of helping to meet needs of orphanages, hospitals, schools and schools in Cambodia, and other countries.
From Japan SBSI procures and ships 40-foot containers of supplies to various countries on a regular basis. Additionally, in some cases, Side By Side undertakes direct sponsorship of individuals living in extreme poverty. Land Cruiser for Papua New Guinea - We sent a humanitarian aid shipment containing a Toyota Land Cruiser to Papua New Guinea. The vehicle will be used by HOPE WORLDWIDE charity organization for the Nine Mile Clinic in Port Moresby, for staff and supplies transport, as an ambulance when needed, and also for mobile immunization patrols and tuberculosis case follow-up in the surrounding squatter settlements. The vehicle will replace a 4WD pick-up which is on its last legs and frequently breaks down.
The Nine Mile settlement in Port Moresby sees over 30,000 patients - adults and children - per year. Common diseases are malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, yaws, and HIV/AIDS. They have a large HIV/AIDS education program, educating in communities and also in schools, also a tuberculosis control program, diabetes education and research. Dental Units to Tanzania - Side By Side International donated four dental units, which were shipped to Tanzania to be used in the construction of dental clinics there. Also included was top-of-the-line X-ray equipment and compressors.
Assisting the Homeless and Poor in Japan
Side by Side International continues to support Japanese non-profit organizations working locally to help provide food for both homeless people and the ever increasing poor, in the wake of worsening economic conditions in Japan.
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