Shropshire Health for Africa Project (SHAPE)

SHAPE Africa

Shropshire Health for Africa Project (SHAPE) is a small charity run by volunteers loosely based around the medical centre in Church Stretton, South Shropshire. (Charity No. 1124253). Our aim is to help people in Africa to gain access to good primary health care.

In Ethiopia many people die from diseases that are simply, easily and cheaply preventable or treatable: malaria, diarrhoea, respiratory infections and malnutrition. 1 child in 8 dies before its 5th birthday. The risk of a mother dying in childbirth is 1 in 14.

A group from SHAPE visited Ethiopia in November 2007 and identified an area in the highlands where, working with a local charity, we can help rural people get better access to:

Medicines
Health Education
Vaccination
Family Planning

Things that we in the UK take for granted.

For more information about us and the project, and how you can help us, use the links above or below