Background
Overview
AAR Beckmann Trust was set up in 2007 with the aim to facilitate the development of a healthcare environment and network that ensures competence and quality of performance right down to the low-income earners.
Whom We Work With
The Trust works with AAR and with other schools, hospitals, clinics, health providers, private and public, in order to provide services at affordable prices all over the region, spreading employment and alleviating poverty. Pooling available resources from all sectors, private, NGO and public (government), in order to induce a conducive environment as well as generating synergies that work towards the creation of a sustainable health models, contributing to the development of people’s in the East African region and eventually all over Africa is the final goal.
AAR Beckmann Trust seeks to supplement AAR and other private, public and national initiatives which have been established to provide new health management approach that contribute positively to poverty reduction by improving the health standards of low-income households. E.g. AAR has developed low-income health plans for catastrophic illness insurance schemes, health packages for low income populations as well as the micro-finance sector: the AAR Afya Cards. These are some of the areas which the trust would like to enhance and network with.
Trustees
- Maryjka Beckmann (Kenyan)
- Teresa Sapieha (Kenyan)
- Jagi Gakunju (Kenyan)
- Brigadier Adrian Naughten (British)
Vision
Our vision is to see an East Africa where every individual can access health and enjoy a wholesome quality of life.
Mission
Our mission is to improve health and living conditions of low-income communities in East Africa by involving and empowering them in initiatives that foster a healthy environment.
Objectives
Improve health through better environment and sanitation
Hereunder are broad immediate and long term objectives:
AARBT’s Objectives
- To promote research and/or input into areas which directly impact on health such as the environment
- Establishment of clinics, hospitals, treatment centers and mobile clinics - to benefit the public in the social welfare development in the promotion of good health. This would promote cost effectiveness and ensure maximum impact ensuring wider access to medical coverage to reach larger audiences
- Medical research - to promote research in health care sector wherever AAR is represented in the East African region
- Promotion of alternative and/or traditional treatments
- Establishment and promotion of medical education and teaching facilities and the education of residents of eastern Africa in all parts of the world - to promote training in the health care sector particularly impacting the low-income strata of the population
- Manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical products and other treatments
- Emergency rescue
- Partnering with government, NGO and private sector care provider