Raising Funds for FoAN
Friends of African Nursing (FoAN) cannot provide the training and support for
perioperative nurses, collect, take or send supplies and equipment without
appropriate funding.
One Development Programme Involves:
- The costs for a minimum of two trainers travelling from the UK to their destination plus visas
- Accommodation & meals for one week for the trainers
- Immunisation and anti malaria medication costs for the trainers
- Travelling costs for the African nurses to get from their local hospitals to a central training location. Due to the size of some African countries and transport limitations this can some time and be quite costly
- Accommodation & meals for all of the nurses to stay for the duration of the course
- Training facility costs
- Transport costs within the country to enable trainers to visit the Ministry for Health and local hospitals
- Photocopying to support education being delivered.
- In addition to the training provided, in some countries we will fund journal subscriptions and help to try and set up a library of educational resources
What Do We Take / Send to Support Our Friends in Africa?
- All training materials
- Posters
- Text Books for Nurses
- Eye Protection
- Surgical Instruments
- Disposable equipment for surgery, including in-date sutures, catheters, ET
- Tubes, LMAs Gloves and Masks
- Computers and Printers
So, How Can You help?
You can be assured that any donations or funds raised will be used to support colleagues, and not go to running the organisation. We have very few overheads and all our time is given voluntarily.
Membership Scheme
Becoming a member costs £10 per year for which, we will keep you up to date with training delivered and events via our bi-annual Newsletter. See the Members area of our website. You can then encourage more people to become members?£10 can provide an African Nurse with eye protection for one year
Cards for Sale
The talented trustee and co-founder of Friends of African Nursing, Lesley, paints in her spare time. Please take time to see her images, in the catalogue. There is an order form which you can down load, please send this to us with your order.Several of our fundraising volunteers sell these cards for us at local fetes or other appropriate events.