About us
The Axim Healthcare & Community Development Trust is a UK registered charity in October 2001 by Mrs Teresa Awiah. The initial impertuis for what would become a fully registered Charity was a request by the Senior Registrar at the hospital during a personal family visit home to Axim.
Mrs Awiah was cajoled and eventually almost manhandled into a car to the Hospital and what she saw was an institution in a pitiful state. There was NO running water available for the doctors and nurses. The kitchen facilities consisted of a room on which family members of patients would burn wood and coal to generate heat for singular metal camping structures capable of providing a single meal at a time. The condition of the materety ward was so pitiful one cannot describe with mere words. A picture is worth a thousand words or can take your breath away..... A the following image page would stir anyone with a beating heart to action and Mrs Awiah requested the tour ended at this point. (click here to see the pre charity Maternity Operating Room)
What she had seen and would later become apparent transformed what was supposed to be a relaxing holiday into a voyage of discovery and concluded with promises made to the Nurses who she knew personally by now, the Doctors and most importantly a promise to herself that on her return to London she would work tirelessly to support the hospital and thereby all the people within it's catchment area who rely on the hospital for all their Primary, Secondary, and Surgical needs. For a woman approaching her Seventies! She conujoured up resourses from deep within herself and set about marshalling help, gaining knowledge, and bringing together leading members of the Nzema community living in Londonwith the sole aim of stepping in and turning talk into transformation.
AS Such a Trust was set up set up to work hand in hand with the Hospital setting realistic, achieveable goals to build confidence identify small changes which would have a disproportionate impact across both the institution and directly on patient care and operational success. For an institution last re-equipped in 1960 the issue was – Bluntly - “Where on earth do we start?”
Word quickly spread both in London and amongst the regional medical communities that help might be at hand but, understandably there was initial cynisism and a perception of promises, promises, promises – let me show you my tee shirt – Happily for once and as the saying goes
It is time to give the people of axim the,medicines environment and basic supplies that we are able to take for granted. These people deserve a gurantee of clean running water, Flushing toilets (not long drops wrything with maggots with a fresh supply of new diseases. Basic Vector Control, standards of care the world Health Iorganisation insists is the right of every human being. In parts of the world the conditions are so deleterious as to require the input of a central government to make the smallest unstainable impact. Here all that is needed is the concience and actions of a few thousand individuals prepared to donate and positivley impact tens of thousands of lives! A woman of seventy five has shamed and challenged us.
Carpe Deium In Latin it translates as “Seize The Day”
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