Despite rich cultural heritage and vibrant communities, millions of people across sub-Saharan Africa suffer due to inadequate healthcare infrastructure and limited availability of essential medical services. This lack of access increases the spread of preventable diseases, increases maternal and child mortality rates, and perpetuates the cycle of poverty.
Embrace Relief is dedicated to bridging this gap by providing vital healthcare services, supporting local medical facilities, and advocating for sustainable health solutions to ensure every individual has the opportunity to lead a healthy and productive life.
We achieve our mission by partnering with local medical clinics and deploying Mobile Health Clinics. Embrace Relief’s Mobile Clinics are equipped to operate as standard clinics and travel up to 9 hours from a city center, providing healthcare to those in even the most remote regions.
Your Impact:
40,500+
cataract surgeries to restore vision
607,500+
preventative health screenings
Did You Know?
There are more than 6 million people who are visually impaired due to cataracts throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Children
- Developmental delays:
- Motor
- Cognitive
- Language
- Social
- Emotional
- Academic
- Physical
- Social isolation
- Low school attendance
Adults
- Low workforce participation
- Increased social isolation
- Increased anxiety and depression
- Prone to falls and fractures
- Greater likelihood of early on-set dementia or Alzheimers
Meet Mohammed, a 19-year-old Malian boy who started losing his vision to cataracts in just 9th grade because of an injury…
Cure Cataracts
A cataract is a progressive eye disease that, if not treated, causes blurry vision and eventually complete blindness. This preventable and treatable eye disease is the leading cause of blindness in Africa and is caused by extreme heat, excessive dust, intense labor, malnutrition, and lack of access to health services.
Here is your $100 donation in action:
$55
- Pre-operation health checkup
- Consultation
- Cataract surgery for one eye
- Patients receive free food & water on day of operation
- Three post-operation checkups
With each $100 donation, you receive a Cataract Surgery Certificate with your name, the name of the person whose surgery you sponsored, and a picture.You may also sponsor a sponsored cataract surgery as a gift or in memory of a loved one.
Preventative Health
Medical intervention and prevention save lives, yet millions of people struggle to access basic services and fail to receive health education. Embrace Relief addresses healthcare inequalities by providing free comprehensive preventative health screenings and basic medicines. Basic medicines include antibiotics, eye drops, and anti-inflammatories. Anyone can walk into the clinics we support and request a free health checkup.
A health checkup includes a general physical:
- Height/weight/age
- Vital signs
- Blood pressure, heart rate, temperature
- Abdominal examination
- Head and neck examination to check lymph nodes, tonsils, and thyroid
- Eye examination
These preventative measures can save lives through early detection of illness or disease. The survival rate drastically increases the earlier an illness/disease is identified because doctors can start an immediate care plan. If our clinic is not equipped to treat the patient, staff assist in arranging the necessary appointments at facilities where they can receive care.
Cure Cataracts and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Embrace Relief’s Cure Cataracts program is designed in accordance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs are a blueprint for achieving a peaceful, prosperous, equitable and sustainable future for all of humanity, and together the 17 goals serve as targets for worldwide cooperation to meet and overcome the greatest challenges we face. All of Embrace Relief’s programs contribute to the realization of at least two SDGs.
Our health clinics in Mali have restored the eyesight of 37,000 people via cataract surgeries, and have helped detect and treat underlying health issues by providing more than 550,000 comprehensive health screenings to people in need.
Many children have received cataract surgeries thanks to Embrace Relief, giving them the opportunity to learn at the same pace as their peers in school.
By providing food directly to people, we address hunger and malnutrition and help to reduce health complications, increasing productivity and allowing children to remain in school.
