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“Kids for World Health: A Voice for Life”

“Kids for World Health: A Voice for Life”

Speech for the International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control with power-point September 21, 2009 Kampala, Uganda Kay Kobbe, Presenting President of Kids for World Health Wait ten seconds.. It is with great Joy and privilege that I am present among you representing Kids for World Health here in Uganda. It is an honor to have an opportunity to share the work of our young people…and as you have heard, they are indeed here in Spirit. What a gift it has been to learn, to expand our understandings, and to broaden our worlds. Photo of kids reading in the classroom. Begun in a class of 18 third graders nine years ago, Kids for World Health emerged among my students as a collective understanding that all people deserve the chance for Life.. with whatever struggles it may hold. It was founded as a compassionate response to the thousands of people who die each year from Trypanosomiasis, knowing that a cure exists in the western world, but for them was...

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Celebrating Our New Clinic in Bodo,Chad!

Celebrating Our New Clinic in Bodo,Chad!

Dr. Pere Simarro, village staff, and villagers gather to celebrate the opening of our KFWH Pediatric Clinic in Bodo, Chad. The clinic was opened in tribute to the work of Dr. Pere Simarro,  KFWH Mentor and Member of the KFWH Advisory Board and WHO Coordinator of Sleeping Sickness in Geneva, Switzerland. KFWH  Action #6 will be used primarily in the treatment of Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) as well as for the treatment of Malaria in the region. It is positioned to  potentially serve 150,000 villagers. [nggallery...

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KFWH Co-Founder Fights Chagas Disease in Bolivia

KFWH Co-Founder Fights Chagas Disease in Bolivia

KFWH Enters South America… Emily Wharton, one of the 15 Founders of Kids for World Health at the age of 8, was in the field in Bolivia at age 20, working with researchers on Chagas Disease treatment at the site of our KFWH Field Project. The Project being funded by students in chapters in NYC and in several states, provides the leads and introducers for the implant of pacemakers used as a life-saving treatment for patients suffering from 4th stage Chagas in villages surrounding Santa Cruz. Currently 85% of the villagers are infected by the parasite carried by a beetle that populates the area and bites its victims in the night sliding through the cracks in their mud homes. Emily is our first student intern in the field, and her contribution is to create a video film on the process of this treatment. This film will hope to help alleviate the fears of villagers who have the opportunity for surgery and will support our 1st Aim of Education and...

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“Cadence”, a poem by A. Pope

last summer vacation early afternoon in the sizzling hot air of the local train station in the sweltering mob of people hurrying to the next destination a high school kid plays guitar and sings soft words like silver tumbling from his mouth and he gently strums that same guitar to those silken slangy words assured and suave words words and he keeps on strumming idly humming to a hassle of people hurrying and thrumming and I can’t help but stop to listen to lend an ear to stop awhile and listen and this tall tall boy the color of the richest thing in a fertile land the richest with his beat up guitar case open for a couple dollars more I stand he stands two stillnesses and he sings la da dee dah day he sings mmm-hhhmmm one sublimating afternoon this is life, this is life that subway stations he sings this is life, this is life. little girl out in the middle of a marketplace standing in the...

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Update on Lead Wire Project for Pacemaker Surgeries in Bolivia

Update on Lead Wire Project for Pacemaker Surgeries in Bolivia

Currently, Kids for World Health is supplying lead wires and introducers to pacemaker patients in and around Camiri and Santa Cruz in Bolivia, South America. We were happy to hear the story from the field, of Tiburcia, who recently was given the needed surgery to extend her life.  As you will read, she is very appreciative of the chance to live her life and have time to love her grandchildren and family. Grandmothers love their grandchildren in every culture! _________________________________________________________________________________ Tiburcia Sacaca Quispe, Patient Story from Bolivia Sent from our on-site location in Bolivia.  Tiburcia grew up in the mining city of Potosi, Bolivia before moving with her family to Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She remained in Santa Cruz making her life as a homemaker with her husband, living close by her sisters as well. She raised 3 children, now grown, and helps care for her 6 small grandchildren.  She shares her 2-bedroom house with her husband, daughter, son-in-law, and 2 grandchildren. She enjoys being with family around the house...

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