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February 2005
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A Global Healthcare Public Foundation
Announces Picture Exhibition and Lecture.
February 24, 2005 – Columbia, Maryland – A Global Healthcare Public Foundation, announced today that it will be exhibiting 250 pictures from it’s over 600 picture collection at the Art Windows on 1110 Vermont Ave. NW Washington DC. These pictures taken in Benin, Cameroon, Nigeria and Togo during the Foundation’s recent humanitarian and charity mission depict the plight of orphans and vulnerable children, women and girls, poverty and HIV/AIDS in these countries.
The Picture exhibit, done in collaboration with the DC Art Center (www.dcartscenter.org/event.html) and Artist John Antone will begin on March 5th 2005 and will run till April 2005. There will be an opening and lecture session on March 22, 2005, from 4:30pm to 6pm at Staryer University, (www.strayer.edu) 1133 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 2005.
Benin: In Benin, we had working session with Dr. Valentine Medegan, Director of the AIDS Control Program for the Rep. of Benin and five clinics and NGOs and journalist. The Foundation announced that it entered into a collaborative agreement with Optima (a local NGO) through which it will carry out its prevention programs and back to school programs for orphans of AIDS and vulnerable children in Benin.
Cameroon: In Cameroon where the Foundation already has a number of programs in progress, The Foundation met with Prof. Anomah Ngu who briefed the Foundation’s President on who much work had been done since his last visit, (01/2004) to the “Espoire Clinic” (www.vanlabs.com) in Yaoundé. Once gain Prof. Ngu and the clinic were beneficiaries of a USD $600 grant and medication donation worth over USD $1000.00. Some other eleven health centers and NGO were recipients of USD $800.00 grant, a full time nurse and medication worth USD $40,000.00. The Foundation entered into contract agreement with a second orphanage to assist its children with medication up to USD $2,400 for a one year period.
Nigeria: The Foundation’s President/Founder, Kilian Songwe, and a team of volunteers traveled to Imo State, Nigeria where in partnership with God First International (a local NGO) they carried out training workshops and trained some ten Train the Trainers in Voluntary, Counseling and Testing skills. Seminar lecture on HIV prevention were also given to high school and university students at various campuses. In all about 4500 students were reached with this campaign. The President then traveled to Port Harcourt, Lagos and Zaria visiting local health centers and clinics understanding how they dealt with issues on HIV prevention, new cases and mother to child transmission prevention. The trip to Nigeria ended at Amadou Bello University (in the north) with a conference with the University’s Vice Chancellor, College Deans and student leaders discussing issues on HIV education an a partnership with the Foundation.
Togo: Our relationship with the Paramount Chief, Tobin I. Semekonawo, and his 23 sub chiefs has given the Foundation great access to the local people who are very receptive to our games and prevention seminars. Both our partners Caciej and Lonlonyo who recently received medication from the Foundation worth USD $10,000.00 and monetary grants of USD $600.00 have scaled up their programs and have seen an increase in the number of people seeking their services especially free testing and counseling, medication and food. Their biggest problem still remains the lack of enough food and medication to give PLWA, orphan and vulnerable children when they come in for their regular visits. However, with both centers doing very well, the Foundation is expanding its services to “Clinic Clemence” a maternity for positive mothers and Gardegi, a local NGO working in the agricultural sector to educate people on issues of HIV/AIDS prevention.
Background: The Foundation focus on reducing healthcare imbalances by partnering with grassroots organizations and clinics to scale up interventions that will alleviate the HIV disease burden by granting Technical & Financial Assistance, Medications & Equipments to rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa affected by HIV/AIDS.
A Global Healthcare Public Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) organization with the IRS and all donations to the Foundation are tax deductable.
For more information contact: A Global Healthcare Public Foundation
Phone: 1 800 342 4575 Fax: 410 884 0576.
e-m: info@aglobalhf.org, web: www.aglobalhf.org
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Girl and brother at New Year Party for children 12/2004
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November 2004
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A Global Healthcare Public Foundation
announces new Milestones.
November 22, 2004 – Columbia, Maryland – A Global Healthcare Public Foundation, announced today that it has reached agreement with Youth Outreach Programme, YOP, an NGO based in Cameroon to represent it within the North West Province. This agreement was immediately followed by the Foundation’s hiring of a full time licensed Nurse to be placed in one of the rural health center of the North West Province.
The Foundation will ensure that, with the presence of this nurse, the health center will be a center for information dissemination, education and communication campaigns on HIV/AIDS prevention and other sexually transmitted infections for the people of this locality.
The Foundation also recently announced that it had entered into a collaborative agreement with the President/CEO of Kakwa Biofarm, Mr. Ngeh J. Toyang, (www.kakwabiofarm.com) through whom it recently was able to donated eight mattresses to a health center in desperate need.
“This relationship with very credible organizations on the field keeps the Foundation’s overhead very low and allows for more of your donations to go to programs and families affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.” Says Kilian Songwe, President/Founder of the Foundation.
AT the XV International AIDS Conference (www.aids2004.org) in Bangkok, Thailand, the Foundation’s President/Founder started discussions with AXIOS (www.axios-group.com) with the aim of scaling up access to medication in two pilot programs in Cameroon and Togo. A documentary of the Foundation’s work thus far was shown (July 15) and well received by delegates to the International AIDS Conference.
Today, two of our programs are in desperate need of help. As schools prepare to resume in less than two months we have identified (through the Presbyterian Church in Bamenda, Cameroon) 922 children, 65% of them girls, who are in danger of falling out of school this year and becoming vulnerable to HIV/AIDS if we do not step in now. In Togo a rural clinic started by a young nurse out of their house and supported with medications and literature on HIV/AIDS from the Foundation is about to be closed because the patients cannot raise enough money for the nurse to pay the rents. We urge you to please help today with a small donation. You could donate on line at www.aglobalhf.org or by mail to: A Global Healthcare Public Foundation, 12209 Bonnet Brim Course, Suite # 2, Columbia, MD, 21044-2862.
Background: A Global Healthcare Public Foundation was founded as a charity organization to focus on reducing healthcare imbalances by partnering with grassroots organizations and clinics to accelerate interventions that will alleviate the disease burden by granting Technical & Financial Assistance, Medications & Equipments to rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa affected by HIV/AIDS.
Since its formation, the Foundation now provides assistance in three countries (Cameroon, Togo and Nigeria) supporting eleven health centers, clinics and NGOs and having reached over 10,000 children and elderly people through its IEC campaigns, medicine donation program and grants for HIV/AIDS related projects.
Contact: A Global Healthcare Public Foundation
12209 Bonnet Brim Course, Suite #2
Columbia, MD 2104-2862
Phone: 1 800 342 4575; Fax 410 884 0576
e-mail: info@aglobalhf.org; web; www.aglobalhf.org
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August 2004
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A Global Healthcare Public Foundation
announces new Milestones.
August 9, 2004 – Columbia, Maryland – A Global Healthcare Public Foundation, announced today that it has reached agreement with Youth Outreach Programme, YOP, an NGO based in Cameroon to represent it within the North West Province. This agreement was immediately followed by the Foundation’s hiring of a full time licensed Nurse to be placed in one of the rural health center of the North West Province.
The Foundation will ensure that, with the presence of this nurse, the health center will be a center for information dissemination, education and communication campaigns on HIV/AIDS prevention and other sexually transmitted infections for the people of this locality.
The Foundation also recently announced that it had entered into a collaborative agreement with the President/CEO of Kakwa Biofarm, Mr. Ngeh J. Toyang, (www.kakwabiofarm.com) through whom it recently was able to donated eight mattresses to a health center in desperate need.
“This relationship with very credible organizations on the field keeps the Foundation’s overhead very low and allows for more of your donations to go to programs and families affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.” Says Kilian Songwe, President/Founder of the Foundation.
AT the XV International AIDS Conference (www.aids2004.org) in Bangkok, Thailand, the Foundation’s President/Founder started discussions with AXIOS (www.axios-group.com) with the aim of scaling up access to medication in two pilot programs in Cameroon and Togo. A documentary of the Foundation’s work thus far was shown (July 15) and well received by delegates to the International AIDS Conference.
Today, two of our programs are in desperate need of help. As schools prepare to resume in less than two months we have identified (through the Presbyterian Church in Bamenda, Cameroon) 922 children, 65% of them girls, who are in danger of falling out of school this year and becoming vulnerable to HIV/AIDS if we do not step in now. In Togo a rural clinic started by a young nurse out of their house and supported with medications and literature on HIV/AIDS from the Foundation is about to be closed because the patients cannot raise enough money for the nurse to pay the rents. We urge you to please help today with a small donation. You could donate on line at www.aglobalhf.org or by mail to: A Global Healthcare Public Foundation, 12209 Bonnet Brim Course, Suite # 2, Columbia, MD, 21044-2862.
Background: A Global Healthcare Public Foundation was founded as a charity organization to focus on reducing healthcare imbalances by partnering with grassroots organizations and clinics to accelerate interventions that will alleviate the disease burden by granting Technical & Financial Assistance, Medications & Equipments to rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa affected by HIV/AIDS.
Since its formation, the Foundation now provides assistance in three countries (Cameroon, Togo and Nigeria) supporting eleven health centers, clinics and NGOs and having reached over 10,000 children and elderly people through its IEC campaigns, medicine donation program and grants for HIV/AIDS related projects.
Contact: A Global Healthcare Public Foundation
12209 Bonnet Brim Course, Suite #2
Columbia, MD 2104-2862
Phone: 1 800 342 4575; Fax 410 884 0576
e-mail: info@aglobalhf.org; web; www.aglobalhf.org
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February 2004
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A Global Healthcare Public Foundation
February, 2004 – Columbia, Maryland – A Global Healthcare Public Foundation, announces today that it President/Founder, Kilian Songwe has just returned from a trip to Cameroon and Togo, (unfortunately he did not go to Ivory Coast as planned). While on the trip, he met with a health center manager and asked him what the Foundation could do for his center. He replied, “Brother, we need gloves.” “I expected him to ask for microscopes, beds, injection needles, centrifuges or some testing equipment but all he said was “Brother, we need gloves” stated Mr. Kilian Songwe.
As a Foundation, we strive to do simple and practical things, small but with great love, to empower grassroots communities. Some of our projects have grown, like our drug donation program and education program built hand-in-hand with the community, who share in the distribution, planning, and labor.
2003 was an outstanding year for the Foundation. With your contribution, both financial and moral, we visited 11 localities. We made donations of medication worth USD $90,000.00 to six community health centers and two community based organizations. These donations were worth more than what some centers receive annually and we expect that it would supplement treatment of over 2000 children and elderly. We also donated over 43 posters on HIV prevention to youth groups and held IEC campaigns.
“During this trip I met an 11 year old girl named Georgette, and an infant babygirl, Audree, at the orphanage “Fondation Fact” (which houses 38 children, most orphaned by AIDS) Georgette’s eyes glittered with hope as she thanked me for visiting with them and donating medication that will help them combat, amongst other illness, the rather too many episodes of malaria that plagued their orphanage. I met with a health center nurse Ms. Martina who pleaded that the Foundation should not stop thinking of them because the people in her district are so poor they cannot afford the $0.25 needed for consultation. At another center, Mr. Christopher, the chief of station, showed me the men’s ward with only four beds and no mattresses and gloves drying after being washed for reuse.”
Experiences like these make it clear that more needs to be done to ensure that people in Sub Saharan Africa would get equal opportunities to a healthy life.
These first-hand encounters with girls like Georgette, babies like Audree, or health center managers like Martina and Christopher or organization leaders like Arsene continually renew my conviction that the dedication of individuals can have enormous impact on society. The Foundation is driven by a desire to help. A desire to make a difference!
As always, I am available to answer any questions or concerns you may have. On behalf of the Foundtion’s management and the people whose lives we have impacted, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation for your past support and ask that you would kindly extend us your support in the future.
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
--Mother Teresa
Contact: A Global Healthcare Public Foundation
12209 Bonnet Brim Course, Suite #2
Columbia, MD 2104-2862
Phone: 1 800 342 4575; Fax 410 884 0576
e-mail: info@aglobalhf.org; web; www.aglobalhf.org
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December 2003
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A Global Healthcare Public Foundation
Distributes Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa
December 2003 – Columbia, Maryland - A Global Healthcare Public Foundation arrived in Cameroon with 70lb boxes of medication for its first medical distribution mission to help subsidies the medication levels in some communities to include two centers in Yaoundé and two in Bamenda. The President /Founder of the Foundation Mr. Kilian Songwe, stated upon arrival that,” This was a great day for public health in Cameroon and a giant leap for the Foundation.”
Each 70lb box of medication will serve about 300 people in the targeted areas per episode of disease. It is expected that the medication worth about USD $160,000 will reach 5000 people in desperate need. These boxes include a range of medication from ORT to Antibiotics as well as very needy First Aid accessories. During this holiday season these medication will increase access to healthcare and alleviate some common recurring diseases.
A Global Healthcare Foundation, a Charitable Organization based in Maryland, USA has three priority areas of work that is intended to address issues of HIV/AIDS and other disease burdens in developing countries.
Education:
· Educate lay community persons about HIV/AIDS and issues of stigma and discrimination
· Give grants to children orphaned by AIDS especially girls to return to formal education
· Package seminars for re-broadcasting in developing countries to healthcare professionals
· Give schollarships to art/dance groups promoting HIV prevention
Training:
· Provide VCT training and develop core staff
· Teach hotline techniques
· Provide Train the Trainer programs
· Provide Test Kit Selection techniques
Policy:
· Coordinate donor efforts
· Evaluation of programs with recommendations to local communities
· Delivery of medication to rural community health clinics/centers
The Foundation forms partners with grassroots organizations in developing countries when there are similarities in any of its priority areas of work or its mission. Through these partnerships, the communities will get the necessary Technical Assistance, and Financial Aid it requires to meet its set objectives as well as benefit from the Foundations vast consultancy resource. The Foundation will use success knowledge from different communities and reapply them to communities needing the same framework. With this Win-Win module, the Foundation’s “One step at a time, One community at a time” slogan will be achieved through out Sub Saharan Africa and Asia.
We encourage you to follow the medical mission in Cameroon by logging onto our website www.aglobalhf.org Donations to support the Foundation’s work are continually being accepted. Every dollar helps! For only $4 dollars you can help cover a child with a mosquito net tonight and save them from a possible malaria infection. All donations to the foundation in check or money order should be payable to the address below
Contact: A Global Healthcare Public Foundation
12209 Bonnet Brim Course, Suite #2
Columbia, MD 2104-2862
Phone: 1 800 342 4575; Fax 410 884 0576
e-mail: info@aglobalhf.org; web; www.aglobalhf.org
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