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Better Lives Foundation’s (BLF) mission is to create sustainable communities and change lives through free quality medical care & education sponsorship enabling communities and individuals to break the cycles of poverty.

How You Can Help
  1. Simply book your next holiday with Charitable Travel and tell us you want to support Better Lives Foundation. The charity will then benefit from the free donation you can make as part of the booking process. To read more about how this works, head to our ‘About Us‘ page.
  2. If you want to make a donation to Better Lives Foundation and you are not booking a holiday, click here to visit their website.
  3. Visit https://www.betterlivesfoundation.org/ to sign up to newsletters, and follow the Better Lives Foundation social media pages and help spread the word.
How You Can Help
  1. Simply book your next holiday with Charitable Travel and tell us you want to support Better Lives Foundation. The charity will then benefit from the free donation you can make as part of the booking process. To read more about how this works, head to our ‘About Us‘ page.
  2. If you want to make a donation to Better Lives Foundation and you are not booking a holiday, click here to visit their website.
  3. Visit https://www.betterlivesfoundation.org/ to sign up to newsletters, and follow the Better Lives Foundation social media pages and help spread the word.

who we are

Better Lives Foundation (BLF) is a UK registered charity that works to better people’s lives in West Africa and North India.

Yonibana Sai Hospital was constructed and opened in 2009. It is a fully-equipped hospital with maternal, malnourished programmes, a surgical theatre, dental room and optical service and more.

We are the only hospital in Sierra Leone that provides free care for all regardless of age.

All our international volunteers including doctors, dentists, optometrists, nurses, engineers, teachers, accountants and IT specialists, offer their services and expertise completely free of charge including meeting their own travel, accommodation and food costs.

We have a continuous rota of medical and non-medical volunteers visiting Yonibana Sai Hospital to offer their services and teach the staff. Contact us if you wish to add your name to the rota.

how can i help?

As the needs of the community increase, we’re now expanding the current hospital but we cannot do it without your generosity and support. Your donation will empower us to build a sustainable community.

Your donations in the form of kindness and compassion will enable us expand and construct the following:

  • Neonatal and Maternity Unit
  • Ophthalmology Unit
  • Dental Unit
  • Inpatient General Medicine
  • Surgery unit
  • Radiology unit
  • Laboratory diagnostics
  • Library

The aim is to turn these into accredited teaching institutes. The energy needs for this construction will ideally be met by solar power. Fibre optic internet will be installed with the help of the Ministry of Communication and Information.

The grounds of 25.7 acres are owned by Better Lives Foundation and this expansion plan is being undertaken to enhance the current level of medical and educational services being provided to the Yoni Chiefdom (district).

how can i help?

As the needs of the community increase, we’re now expanding the current hospital but we cannot do it without your generosity and support. Your donation will empower us to build a sustainable community.

Your donations in the form of kindness and compassion will enable us expand and construct the following:

  • Neonatal and Maternity Unit
  • Ophthalmology Unit
  • Dental Unit
  • Inpatient General Medicine
  • Surgery unit
  • Radiology unit
  • Laboratory diagnostics
  • Library

The aim is to turn these into accredited teaching institutes. The energy needs for this construction will ideally be met by solar power. Fibre optic internet will be installed with the help of the Ministry of Communication and Information.

The grounds of 25.7 acres are owned by Better Lives Foundation and this expansion plan is being undertaken to enhance the current level of medical and educational services being provided to the Yoni Chiefdom (district).

what have we done so far?

Over 90,000 patients have been treated totally free:

  • 8,158 eye consultation/spectacles dispensed
  • 373 cataract surgeries with IOL lens
  • 189 Hernia surgeries
  • Over 10,255 dental extractions
  • Referral hospital in the 4 sisters’ chiefdom, Yoni Mamala, Yoni Mabanta, Mabang & Malal Mara chiefdom
  • 75 students sponsored from secondary to graduate level in medical and non-medical programmes
  • The number of death rate has sharply decreased as before people walked about 3-5 miles just to seek medical care, 105 miles for the main district hospital.
  • The malnutrition programme where children are now gaining their normal or required weight through the weekly supply of malnourish foods
  • Controlling STI ‘s, and conducting health talks to grass root people through health outreach programmes is also helpful in the community, with percentage in decreased diseases
  • Social work outreach programmes educating and training villagers and community on the protocols of Covid-19
  • Donation of wash hand stations to several villages and police check point areas to minimise infection
  • 65% Malaria cases have dropped as compared to previously before the establishment of Yonibana Sai Hospital.

what have we done so far?

Over 90,000 patients have been treated totally free:

  • 8,158 eye consultation/spectacles dispensed
  • 373 cataract surgeries with IOL lens
  • 189 Hernia surgeries
  • Over 10,255 dental extractions
  • Referral hospital in the 4 sisters’ chiefdom, Yoni Mamala, Yoni Mabanta, Mabang & Malal Mara chiefdom
  • 75 students sponsored from secondary to graduate level in medical and non-medical programmes
  • The number of death rate has sharply decreased as before people walked about 3-5 miles just to seek medical care, 105 miles for the main district hospital.
  • The malnutrition programme where children are now gaining their normal or required weight through the weekly supply of malnourish foods
  • Controlling STI ‘s, and conducting health talks to grass root people through health outreach programmes is also helpful in the community, with percentage in decreased diseases
  • Social work outreach programmes educating and training villagers and community on the protocols of Covid-19
  • Donation of wash hand stations to several villages and police check point areas to minimise infection
  • 65% Malaria cases have dropped as compared to previously before the establishment of Yonibana Sai Hospital.

why we're raising money

Our dream is for every individual in Yonibana to have a fair chance to survive, thrive and achieve their full potential. We believe in a future where kids spend less time worrying and more time learning at school and dreaming of a future. A child’s smile is the best reward for our work.

We want to empower a community with the tools and knowledge they need to transform their futures.

100% of your donation helps people in need. Not 80%. Not 92%. Not even 99.9%. It’s 100%.

 

why we're raising money

Our dream is for every individual in Yonibana to have a fair chance to survive, thrive and achieve their full potential. We believe in a future where kids spend less time worrying and more time learning at school and dreaming of a future. A child’s smile is the best reward for our work.

We want to empower a community with the tools and knowledge they need to transform their futures.

100% of your donation helps people in need. Not 80%. Not 92%. Not even 99.9%. It’s 100%.

 

Get in touch

Location

Better Lives Foundation, 15-16 Westfield Ln, Harrow HA3 9ED

Charity and Company

Registered charity number 1122290. 

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