Objective: To provide increasingly superior health care services to meet the needs of women and children in the East African region.

Commitment: To build a self-sustainable, not-for-profit health care organization in the East African region over the next three to five years by providing increasingly superior health care services to meet the needs of women and children, while:

1. Increasing benefits to patients, associated doctors, employees, and all other stakeholders through specialized health care services, utilizing state of the art equipment and hospital facilities;
2. Linking with a university in the United States to offer an an educational exchange program for staff to enhance their training in public health issues;
3. Increasing access to specialized healthcare through community outreach programs, such as mobile women’s and children's clinics;
4. Increasing public awareness and tackling female health issues such as HIV/AIDS, gender violence and the negative impact of female genital mutilation in the East African Region.

This initiative supports public/private collaboration to build a self-sustainable, not-for-profit health care organization and to establish a women’s and children hospital in Nairobi, Kenya within five years. The proposed facility will house approximately 150 beds and will provide free public access in a number of health areas.

Background: The USAID Kenya Integrated Strategic Plan for 2001-2005 identifies Reduction of Fertility and the Risk of HIV/AIDS Transmission Through Sustainable, Integrated Family Planning and Health Services as Strategic Objective number three. The ultimate goal here is to strengthen the management of Kenya’s public health sector. In addressing this objective, the plan states: "Kenya is the most important country in East and Central Africa to U.S. foreign policy interests. Positive or negative developments in Kenya have implications throughout the region. Kenya cannot fulfill its potential as the key economic actor in the region unless it can stabilize its population growth rate. If it fails, it will be to the detriment of the entire region." The report adds that "health problems in Kenya have regional consequences. The spread of HIV/AIDS threatens to overwhelm Kenya’s health care systems and negate economic and social gains."

Partnership Opportunity: As the land for the hospital will potentially be donated by the City of Nairobi, the James Jordan Foundation is seeking to partner with corporations who will contribute in-kind the necessary equipment for the hospital.

Update:
November 2005:
Mrs. Deloris Jordan of the James Jordan Foundation has traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, where she met with the Mayor to ask for free land for the women’s hospital. At this time, this request is favorably considered before the city’s board. Additionally, new partnerships have been forged with Medicine for Humanity, Gemini Consulting Group and Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF).

March 2006:
On her most recent visit to Kenya, Mrs. Jordan held meetings, with Mayor Dick Watanabi and the City Council, to further discuss the partnership between the James R. Jordan Foundation, Nairobi Women and Children’s Hospital and the City Council. The primary goal for the meetings was to secure property for building a new hospital. This was accomplished by negotiating a deed trust in which the City Council donated land to the Women and Children’s Hospital. Mrs. Jordan pledged to the CGI that the new hospital would be completed by 2010. To date, $500,000 has already been raised for this project.