Dr. Michael Curci: Report from Tanzania
Dr. Michael Curci,
retired after 30 years of practice as a general
and pediatric surgeon, moved to Tanzania to
help establish these health services in rural
Kigoma.
In 2007 WLF provided US$1 million to the Ndela Youth Development Center in Tanzania, where infant and maternal mortality rates rank among the world's highest. WLF's grant funded critical health care improvements and as a result, 1,500 fewer infants will die in the days immediately following birth, and 350 fewer women will die in childbirth each year, according to the Ndela Center's estimates.
Because of the first year's success, WLF gave another $3.4 million to the project in 2008.