EcoWater Nurses’ Housing for Nungua Village

***Help us move nurses to Nungua village so that medical care can be available 24/7! ****

The New Clinic in Nungua

Nungua is an agricultural village in Jomoro District, in the southwest corner of Ghana. The village is near the Ivory Coast border, and there is even a sister village called Nungua across the border, (which is why we often refer to our village as Elubo-Nungua). The Yonkofa Project is putting the final touches on a Tiny Clinic in Nungua, and with the help of EcoWater SoCal, we have drilled a well and built a water tower for it! The clinic is intended to serve about 5,000 people from the surrounding villages. Because of its remote rainforest location, the government will only be able to transport nurses to the site 1-2 days a week, weather permitting. This is certainly better than nothing, but we want to have the clinic open every day, and have nurses on site for maternity and other emergencies.

The existing Tiny Clinic building in Nungua

Delivering the Tiny Clinic in rainy season

The interior of the Tiny Clinic in Nungua

Well drilling in Nungua and 11 other villages, using fundraising and matching funds from EcoWater SoCal.

A nurse seeing patients at a Tiny Clinic we built in Camp 4, another village in Ghana.

A past water tower sponsored by EcoWater SoCal.

A budding artist with an EcoWater SoCal water tower in the background.

Nurses’ Housing will Change Everything!

The solution is to have the nurses always on site, rather than driven to the clinic two days a week.

We have worked with Fischer SIP’s to design prefabricated housing that will sit on top of a cargo container. This technology is super-insulated (R55) and we have successfully used it before in Ghana. The new cargo container will be converted to Maternity Services, and the upstairs will be where the nurses’ live. The existing Tiny Clinic will be designated for General Practice. The cost of the kit is $26,500.