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Project C.U.R.E, the largest provider of donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries has joined the ‘Project 100’ campaign to supply incubators to various hospitals in the country.

Project 100 is a campaign to raise money to purchase 100 incubator for various 'needy' hospitals to save premature babies.

Speaking to Kwami Sefa Kayi, Elizabeth Chapman who is in to assess the ‘incubator-need’ situation in the country pledged that project 100 has a ‘100 percent’ support from Project C.U.R.E.

“There is great lack of incubators; some facilities have incubators but they are no in working conditions and so there is a great need for the country and for the hospitals in the area to get more incubators to save the lives of babies. What’s next is; we will take the list of needs that the facilities gave us and match it to the warehouse that can fit those needs the best. We may not be able to deliver the whole needs on the list but we will be able to deliver a majority of it…”

Edith Amenyo, co-finder of LittleBigSouls International Charitable Foundation the Voice for the Premature Baby Born in Africa has also come on board to support the campaign.

LittleBigSouls will also go to the various hospitals to examine how the incubators are being used; that is after they are distributed to the various hospitals.

According to her, “globally we have 15 million babies who are born premature every year and we lose a million of them and it’s scary because more than 60% comes from Sub Saharan Africa and Asia. If you go down to the units that we support, we lose about 20-22 babies every month. That is a lot of babies…”

She said premature is not a disease and that “…it can happen to anyone regardless of your status. We all can help…we need to help and do more”

Dennis Adutwum, one of the executives of the 'Project 100' campaign indicated that Project CURE has promised to send in a lot of the incubators and other supplies however, they need money to pay for the containers which will bring the supplies to the country.

"we need $20,000 to bring in one container and so we urge donors and supporters to keep the funds coming" he said.

Work done so far

Click the audio to listen to the progress report on ‘Project 100’