About Life for the Living Humanitarian Centre
Main Aims and Objectives
Lilihuc has Three Main Areas of Operation
Life For the Living Medical Centre (Lilimed)
This Centre, a subsidiary of the Life for the Living Humanitarian Centre, has the arduous task of promoting both urban and rural health within the Ho Municipal area with the long-term vision of extending this centre to other regions in the country. It specializes in treating the eye-care issues and general maladies of both children and the aged. Most of the cases involve treatment of malaria, malnutrition, coughs, wounds, namnas, body pains, fever, asthma, eye injuries, cataracts, glaucoma, inflammations, onchcerciasis, corneal scar, refractive errors and pterygium. In addition, the centre makes critical research efforts to find the causes of eye cases in order to educate on their preventability. Staff and volunteers also visit bedridden patients who cannot afford to visit the hospital, health centers or health posts due to financial difficulties and transportation problems.
Life For The Living Training Centre (Lilicent)
This pupose of this branch is to raise the living standards of the early school leavers. The inability of otherwise intelligent young students to progress to senior grades because of financial difficulties has affected a large number of families in the communities and all over the country. The training being given to this dropout population is meant to reduce the rate of illiteracy and to help brilliant but needy students go to school without paying their own school fees.
Life For The Living Women In-Action (Liliwo)
This branch means to promote self-help initiative projects for women in the rural areas as well as the urban areas with the aim of reducing poverty and improving the lifestyle of people. It also supports women who sell in the market, roadside shops, and kiosks - the women in action. The program envisions the setting up of a small loan service scheme to empower working women to give adequate support to their families.
What We're Doing
Current Projects
Past Projects
- To promote eye care, diabetes and medical health, and to visit bed-ridden patients who cannot afford to utilize hospitals, health centers or health posts due to transportation problems or financial difficulties.
- To promote self-help initiative projects and to create a soft loan program for women who sell at markets or roadside shops to help raise their living standard.
- To create awareness of the needy and raise funds to support their medical bills and gather used eyeglasses, clothing and medicines for the elderly and under-served communities.
- To recruit volunteers internationally and locally in order to help the communities, including high school/college students, teachers, medical students, nurses, social workers and many others.
- To help brilliant but poor families educate their children in order to reduce illiteracy in the educationally under-served communities.
- To help raise the living standard of the early school leavers (school dropouts) in terms of technical and vocational skillful training.
Lilihuc has Three Main Areas of Operation
Life For the Living Medical Centre (Lilimed)
This Centre, a subsidiary of the Life for the Living Humanitarian Centre, has the arduous task of promoting both urban and rural health within the Ho Municipal area with the long-term vision of extending this centre to other regions in the country. It specializes in treating the eye-care issues and general maladies of both children and the aged. Most of the cases involve treatment of malaria, malnutrition, coughs, wounds, namnas, body pains, fever, asthma, eye injuries, cataracts, glaucoma, inflammations, onchcerciasis, corneal scar, refractive errors and pterygium. In addition, the centre makes critical research efforts to find the causes of eye cases in order to educate on their preventability. Staff and volunteers also visit bedridden patients who cannot afford to visit the hospital, health centers or health posts due to financial difficulties and transportation problems.
Life For The Living Training Centre (Lilicent)
This pupose of this branch is to raise the living standards of the early school leavers. The inability of otherwise intelligent young students to progress to senior grades because of financial difficulties has affected a large number of families in the communities and all over the country. The training being given to this dropout population is meant to reduce the rate of illiteracy and to help brilliant but needy students go to school without paying their own school fees.
Life For The Living Women In-Action (Liliwo)
This branch means to promote self-help initiative projects for women in the rural areas as well as the urban areas with the aim of reducing poverty and improving the lifestyle of people. It also supports women who sell in the market, roadside shops, and kiosks - the women in action. The program envisions the setting up of a small loan service scheme to empower working women to give adequate support to their families.
What We're Doing
Current Projects
- Free Mobile Medical Clinic and Eye Restoration Program to around 96 communities in the Volta Region Year Round
- Volunteer Partnerships, both locally and internationally
Past Projects
- Provision of marital support for the needy youth [i.e.] clothes, detergents, start up established of several vegetables. 1999-2000.
- Counselling services for destitute youth
- Trained 46 Girls in Secretaryship
- Trained 5 boys in Secretaryship
- Trained 28 Girls in sewing
- Training workshops for the youth on prevention of HIV/AIDS. Conflict management and general counselling services
- Batik, tie and dye production for 11 males and 34 females over two years
- Supply of 10 wheel chairs to the disabled
- Free treatment for 9 people living with leprosy
- Free Medical treatment for over 170 people aged 3 years