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If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century - Martin Luther King
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER 2010 - JOIN US FOR THE PARAS 10, YES SIREEE 10 MILES OF MISERY !
Based on the Paratrooper selection run, 10 miles multi-terrain, and pain your only certainty....... another great day out with NF!
12th September 2010
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the annual London 10km bash, Wagamama was a hit too!
NEW!! New Foundations on Youtube - we will be uploading small sketches of life in the delta and our work over the next few months, subscribe for regular updates..
"The lives of many children with pneumonia, diarrhoea or malaria could have been saved if a trained community health worker had been on hand to provide correct treatment," she said.
Powerful words from Jennifer Bryce of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public Health, after studying the outcome of UNICEF's recent four year program to combat child death in Africa.
In 2010 New Foundations programs will be entirely Health Care Worker led, and based at the grass roots of need where continuity can be assured. Economic and effective this seems to back the report cited above in response to large centralised and expensive programs
Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8455444.stm
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The World Health Organisation estimate that 40% of the global morbidity from infectious disease, excluding malaria is attributable to worm infection. Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest rates of infection. Aware of the problems ourselves we undertook a small study to see how we can improve our programs....Read More |
2009 at a glance: Video
- 6000 patients treated at the clinic
- 50% of the cases acute malaria, the predominant others pneumonias, dysentery, and measles.
- Clinic open 24hrs a day 7 days a week all year
- 50 operations, hernias, gynae, cleft lip, caesarean section, acute appendices, and surgical biopsies
- 130 patients fitted with glasses
- 800 vaccinations
- 26 satellite community boat camps in remote settings, over 1200 patients seen and treated
- research paper on helminth (worm) infections in children
- subsequently 1000 children receiving anti-worming treatment
- start up liaison with primary and secondary school to foster science curriculum
- climbing frame constructed beside clinic for children
- enabling Dr Oghumu to undertake diploma at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- over 500 cataract operations now completed
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