January 2010
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Beginning the New Year with Nutrition
Today is Nutrition Day at Alive Medical Services. Every month, the clinic provides food parcels to nearly 2,000 patients. Anti-retroviral medication cannot be taken without food, so the comprehensive care approach at Alive Medical Services ensures that every patient on treatment receives a monthly food parcel.
Dr. Pasquine Ogunsanya reports that the clinic is already seeing a greater influx of...
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South Africa from Dan Bakst
Watch my video on our trip to South Africa here:
S. Africa from Dan Bakst on Vimeo.
Back home in Tampa, FL where there has been a record cold and school has already started back up…safe to say I already miss South Africa. I miss more than just the amazing, summer days though. I miss the people, the food…I miss everything. This opportunity will be one I will never forget. I was...
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Why I Love KCA's Work in South Africa by Jessica
What an incredible experience! I have been back in Canada for a week now, and still have clear, vivid memories of every person I met in South Africa, every place I went, and every story I heard, as if it all happened yesterday. This was only my second time in the beautiful country, yet I felt as if I was right at home and amongst my family and good friends, where every one of their experiences and...
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Reflections on South Africa - Heroes to me.
Dan, Jess and I returned from South Africa on Monday evening and it’s been quite a trip getting back to everyday life here in the U.S. This was my second time in South Africa and I can’t tell you how good it felt to be back immersed in the love of the people there. There is something about the people in South Africa - how they welcome you into their homes like family, will tell you...
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Onto Johannesburg!
I’m sorry that we haven’t had the chance to update the KCA Community on our adventures since we landed in Jo’burg - we’ve been so busy!
Leaving Durban was very sad and I was absolutely dreading leaving the Blue Roof after an incredible week with the staff there and all the patients welcoming us in, but we had to leave nonetheless. Thank goodness our South African mother,...
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Update on Bashir
KCA’s Director of Development, Jennifer, traveled to Uganda and Rwanda last month to visit Alive Medical Services and the Centreville Clinic. While in Uganda, Jenn met Bashir for the first time. Bashir is one of nearly 2,000 patients receiving anti-retroviral treatment at Alive Medical Services. After only four months of comprehensive HIV care, Bashir has gained nearly 30 pounds. His...
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Home Based Care Visits with The Blue Roof
Sanibona!!
So we are finally here in South Africa…We still can’t believe it! From the moment we arrived, the warm welcomes that we have received from every person have made us feel right at home. The weather, the sights and the food are all incredible, but still nothing compares to the all of the KCA-funded programs that we have had the priviledge to visit this week. We were blown...
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Reflections on India
Oh Mother India…we are with you…
How does one describe the experience of being in India? After many years of traveling there I have still not managed to find words that fully describe the wonder, the pain, the exuberance, the innocence, the explosion of life that is India. But there in the eyes of its people lies thousands of years past and also a glossy digital future.
India is...
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KCA College PSA Winners to South Africa!
Do you remember the KCA College PSA Competition that Keep a Child Alive held last year? The KCA College Program held a competition for students to enter a 60-second commercial advertising our ‘Text ALIVE to 90999’campaign. After 6 months of entries and online voting, our winners: Jessica Rebeiro and Dan Bakst were announced! You can check out their winning PSAs here. For the past 6...
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From Chennai to Pune
The next part of our Indian excursion took us from Rajasthan in northern India all the way south to Tamil Nadu. We met with our friends from the American India Foundation once more to visit CHES, an organization they support in Chennai. We found that the CHES Orphanage bears great similarity to the Chandrakal Orphanage that KCA helped construct outside Hyderabad. The modern complex is home to...