This presentation was created by the Touch Foundation to show at our fundraisers to stimulate the imagination of our supporters. Over the course of this show you will meet our students, travel up the highest mountain in Africa and learn what a difference your involvement can make in the lives of Tanzanians.

1. “The first wealth is health.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson 0

2. With basic health care,
75 percent of women
and children who die
from preventable illness
can be saved
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3. A health worker will
save at least 350
lives during her
career
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4. Training a health
worker in Tanzania
is seven times
cheaper than
abroad
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6. Bugando hospital and university overlook
Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa
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7. 776 students, enrolled in 8 different training
programs, attend Bugando’s university in Tanzania
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8. Medical students
go through five
years of formal
training and an
additional year of
post-graduate work
to become
physicians
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11. One of Touch Foundation’s first projects was the
construction of a 320 student dormitory
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12. Over the next five years, Bugando will more than
double the number of doctors in the Lake Zone 11

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14. In November 2008,
Bugando’s first class
of nine medical
students graduated
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15. His Excellency
President Jakaya
Kikwete attended
the graduation of
Bugando’s first
class of physicians
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17. Along with supporting the
university, we are
working with Bugando’s
hospital leadership to
assist in infrastructure
and operating
improvements
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18. Bugando’s hospital admits over
60,000 patients a year
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19. The hospital serves 15 million people
living in the Lake Zone region of Tanzania 18

20. We have partnered
with the Abbott
Fund to rebuild and
modernize three
laboratories in
2009
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22. Rural dispensaries are often isolated and
under-staffed 21

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24. “He who has health, has hope.
And he who has hope, has everything.”
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- Ancient Proverb

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