A new team is headed out to Niger to continue our work with the nomads. Dr. Rebecca Jones, with her midwife sister Pat Manzon will continue Dr. Bob Skankey’s midwife training program and medical work at the Tamesna clinic.
We are very grateful to Ventura Global Health Project who helped fund Dr. Jones participation in this mission. Sadly one of our team members had to drop out, but many thanks to Mary Ann O’Connor for her generous support of this mission. More thanks to Rotary Club, who has funded a new round of microcredit and with Tom and Cathryn Krause, a poultry raising project, and the many friends of Dr. Jones and Pat Manzon who chipped it at their request to help us with the medical and midwife training. And the many in kind donations we have received which include:
Two beautiful Yamaha guitars donated by Bob Wright to grow our music program. Medicine donated by Amani of Medicine shoppe Ojai, Unite to Lite solar lights, blood pressure cuffs and children’s vitamins donated by our guardian angel Dr. Bob Skankey and…
296 pairs of readers, and 250 pairs of sunglasses donated by Eyes on Africa–Thank you Sherry Grigsby and partner Diff eyewear
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