Our Goals
The Stouffville Igoma Partnership is a humanitarian effort providing opportunities for people, service clubs, churches, schools and businesses to participate with a needy developing country in a meaningful way.
- Identify areas of interest & support capability within the community
- Initiate visible initiatives that would support the long term objectives
- Increase the health care capacity of the Igoma Clinic through:
- Providing medical equipment and supplies
- Providing Mother Child Infant Care
- Providing basic hygiene instruction
- Recruiting professional volunteers
- The support for, or the provision of training, for medical assistants
- Sustain a secondary school assistance program, providing funds for at least five new and deserving students to attend per year (up to four years per student). NOTE: The objective in 2008 was 5 students, but through sponsor support we are able to fully support 20 students in the first year. We have been able to increase this number to a total of 75 students in 2012
- Increase the number of vocationally trained individuals in Igoma through:
- Providing scholarships that include tuition and room & board
- Providing equipment needed for vocational training
- Vocational training volunteers
- Equipment and supplies for vocations and agricultural needs
- Develop relationships
- Encourage local primary and secondary schools to donate learning aids (notebooks, pencils, pens, etc.)
- Develop pen pal relationships among students
- Encourage work team participation for specific projects in Igoma
- Health care specialists
- Building projects
