When you are hospitalized in Africa, you often need a family member to stay with you to provide your meals, get medicines, etc. In most cases our patient's family members have family or friends in the town of Koutiala where they can stay. But every so often we have someone referred to us from a rural clinic or coming from a distance that does not know anyone in town.

Currently, we have no lodging for them. In these emergency situations we have used an empty room somewhere in the hospital but this is not ideal and we do not want to do so on a regular basis.

So we need to build several simple guest room units ($3,500 per unit) that can be used by these family members and that can be rented to them for a very low price. We plan a one-room unit with bedroom/sitting room and a porch off the front. There would also be outside showers, toilets and a kitchen available to the family. We would like to build 2-4 of these units as the funds become available. In the last 4 months we have needed this three times and as we see more people coming from a distance because of the reputation of the hospital this need will only grow.

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