Headquartered in the district of Kalikot, Oda Foundation provides support and infrastructure for community initiatives in healthcare, education, and livelihood.
These are critical, lifesaving services for one of the most impoverished regions in the world. We serve a remote and impoverished population, where:
- 1 in 5 women experience 1 or more neonatal deaths,
- where highly treatable diseases like pneumonia and fever are instead leading causes of death,
- and where 1/3 patients still have to travel 6 hours to access our clinic
Oda Foundation needs your support to help us raise $30,000 for medicine for over 12,500 patients - an entire year of healthcare.
When you donate, you join the Oda Foundation family, helping us to save thousands of lives in emergency and preventative care, and directly providing equal and dignified healthcare for all. Learn about our vision at odafoundation.org and instagram.com/odafoundation.
WHAT DOES $30,000 PAY FOR?
For our patients, the cost to them for their care (staff salaries and any medicines) is 50 cents, at most. The cost to us, on average, is $1.79 in medicine per patient.
With 24/7 emergency care and labor & delivery costs (both are always free to patients), alongside providing medicine to emergency medicine camps throughout region, we spend $30,000 each year on medicine - nearly 20% of our total budget.
WHY FUNDRAISE FOR MEDICINE?
As we begin to focus on long-term financial sustainability, we need to give more of our budget to our enterprise and education efforts!
Against all the odds - a pandemic and a disastrous monsoon season in Kalikot - 2020 was one of Oda Foundation's strongest years ever. We hired an amazing new Chief Operating Officer, Mona Aditya, adding to our female leadership. We launched the Women's Cooperative, which grew in membership 100% in two months. We launched a women-run agricultural business, and we launched a Jeep transport business. We continued to redefine an innovative partnership with our public schools. With funding from the government, we began to build Kalikot's first-ever Birthing Center - a design made for women's comfort, including waiting rooms and heating.
To truly be an independent Nepali organization, we need a little more help for the next two years.
STORIES FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Karan Singh, Oda native, and Oda Foundation Co-Founder and CEO: "When my father died from pneumonia, and there was no work here in Oda, for my family, our life was blocked by a big wall. There were no medicines for my dad. That is what life was like here. So this is my heart. I donated my father's land so that we had a place to build. Our community wants a better future, too. Our community wants to be happy and healthy."
Amrita Singh, Oda village community member: "My husband died of a high fever, when there was no treatment near to us. Oda Foundation needed land so that we could have a hospital, so we gave our land, and now it is here, so I am happy for that."
Aryashree Aryal, Oda Foundation Education Manager: “Oda Foundation is actually life-saving. It is a game-changer. It is rewarding to be here for work that is this important. Change takes a long time, but bringing the community together is the best thing we can do.”
Dudhkala Pariyar, community member and Women's Cooperative founding member: "My husband passed away - I am a single woman. I make money for the 9 people in my house. Through the Cooperative things, where we save money, single women can get support. We can work and become known for what we do." Photo of Dudhkala below!
Read more about our critical, life-changing work at odafoundation.org and at instagram.com/odafoundation..