Formerly Minnesota International Health Volunteers

Improving the health of women, children and their communities around the world.

When you consider that every donation that you make to WellShare has meaning and purpose, it’s easy to understand why every person who donates to our organization truly makes a difference. Donating is easy, and here are some ways you can get started.

If you would like to support the important work of community health workers [link to “Community health workers” section of “Our Approach”] in Uganda, please indicate that your donation is for CHW.

If you would like to help us build centers in Tanzania for mothers and babies, please consider buying a brick. [link to “Buy a brick” page.] CUT

Here is a snapshot of how your donation will create an impact: [If this gets too long, we can simply provide a link to the text below—heading it as “How your donation makes a difference.” Let’s see it all in place first. Maybe it could even appear as a box on right side of page.]

$10 pays for a delivery kit for a trained traditional birth attendant in Tanzania to provide safe emergency deliveries and protect against blood-borne diseases.

$20 allows community health workers in Uganda to visit 10 clients per month with family planning information.

 

$35 delivers family-planning supplies to hard-to-reach health units in Uganda.

 

$45 pays for a family-planning outreach day in a Ugandan community.

 

$75 pays for the complete training of a community health worker in Uganda.

$80 buys a bicycle for a village health worker to use for community health education and care for pregnant women and sick children in Tanzania.

 

$100 can bring performances of MIHV’s trained cultural troupe—which disseminates life-saving information on malaria, diarrheal disease, maternal newborn care, pneumonia and child spacing—to two Tanzanian communities.

 

$250 supports one year of meetings for a Survive and Thrive Group, which provides health information and capacity-building training to young, unmarried, pregnant women in Tanzanian villages.

 

$500 trains 20 traditional birth attendants in Tanzania in safe delivery, postnatal care [okay to say instead of “antenatal?”] and referral services.

 

$3,000 facilitates the training of 55 nurse midwives as Master Trainers on Home-based Life Saving Skills, who will train thousands of village-level health workers throughout Tanzania about delivery and newborn care.

 

$3,000 trains district and village-level health workers on preventing, recognizing, seeking care for and treating childhood illnesses. 

 

You can designate your tax-deductible cash, check or credit card gift for a specific program or direct it to where the need is greatest. If you’d like, you can give steady support through recurring donations, on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis. Click here to donate online.

Check with your employer about matching gifts. Many businesses and corporations match, dollar for dollar, employee donations to the charity of the employee’s choice.

Give us a gift of stock. It can eliminate capital gains taxes, avoid income tax on the stock and receive tax deductions for its full value.

You may name us as a beneficiary in your will to receive deferred gifts, such as life insurance, or consider setting up a trust with our organization as a beneficiary.

If you have any questions, please contact us [link to contact us page or email].