Biba Kavass Student Clinic in Uganda
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The first “Biba Kavass Student Clinic” will be set up in Kyarumba, southwestern Uganda, near the Congo border. "Biba Kavass Student Clinic" will be situated near St. Tomas Nursery School. 104 toddlers at the nursery school, and their family members, will be served by the clinic.
Due to the phenomenal success of this charity campaign, there will also be a second clinic established in Biba's honor. That clinic will be called "Embrace Global Change" - it will serve the Nyakiyumbu Widows Orphanage, in Uganda near the Congo border.
Both clinics will help end preventable death and illness from malaria, HIV/AIDS, anthrax, bilharzia, cholera, diarrhea, and parasitical worms. UNICEF estimates 250,000 preventable deaths annually in Uganda - especially in the Under 5 age group.
The $5,500 will pay a medical practitioner's salary for 1 year, plus medicine, medical equipment such as a microscope and fecal testing kit, a secure drug cabinet, furniture and office supplies, and lunch food for the school chldren.
The clinics are named after Biba Kavass, award-winning teacher at Southwind High School in Memphis, Tennessee.
(Biba Kavass, above)
Biba is the founder of Microfinance in Action, a non-profit organization dedicated to involving students in humanitarian projects on a global level and the first KIVA Club chartered in the state of Tennessee. Her students operate a website entitled Microfinance in Action; they are writing a book entitled “Microfinance in Action: A Guide for Teenagers,” and they’re producing a video-documentary on poverty and microfinance via their travels both nationally and internationally.
Biba Kavass is a tireless philanthropist, raising money via grant writing and crowd-funding for charity causes in numerous developing nations, including Uganda. Her resume is here.
Biba has terminal Brain Cancer - she envisions this project as one of her last wonderful gifts for the world.
The "Biba Kavass Student Clinic" in Kyarumba will provide an annual salary to a medic - Edmond Thembo - to diagnose diseases, dispense curatives, and train the community in hygiene and disease prevention. The clinic will be provided with equipment and multiple medicines: Albendazole, Ivermectin, Praziquantel, Metronidazole, Coartem, etc.
A medic will also be hired for the "Embrace Global Change" clinic that will serve Nyakiyumbu Widows Orphanage.
45% of deaths in this region are caused by Malaria. The HIV/AIDS rate is also extremely high - 13% of the population.
(children in Kyarumba; photo by Douglas Cruickshank)
Prevention of parasites will be emphasized. Mental health is crippled by worms - 3.75 IQ points are lost per parasite infection. A Uganda study revealed 12.8% of children are infected with with hookworms, 9.6% with Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia), 4.3% with Ascaris, 8.5% with Giardia (protozoa) and 7.4% with Entamoeba histolytica.
(Bilharzia, above)
Uganda desperately needs health assistance because $280 million in foreign aid was cut in 2013, due to Uganda governmental corruption and graft. Several nations - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, and United States - also reduced their foreign aid to Uganda in 2014, due to displeasure with anti-gay bills.
information about Kyarumba is Here
Due to the phenomenal success of this charity campaign, there will also be a second clinic established in Biba's honor. That clinic will be called "Embrace Global Change" - it will serve the Nyakiyumbu Widows Orphanage, in Uganda near the Congo border.
Both clinics will help end preventable death and illness from malaria, HIV/AIDS, anthrax, bilharzia, cholera, diarrhea, and parasitical worms. UNICEF estimates 250,000 preventable deaths annually in Uganda - especially in the Under 5 age group.
The $5,500 will pay a medical practitioner's salary for 1 year, plus medicine, medical equipment such as a microscope and fecal testing kit, a secure drug cabinet, furniture and office supplies, and lunch food for the school chldren.
The clinics are named after Biba Kavass, award-winning teacher at Southwind High School in Memphis, Tennessee.
(Biba Kavass, above)
Biba is the founder of Microfinance in Action, a non-profit organization dedicated to involving students in humanitarian projects on a global level and the first KIVA Club chartered in the state of Tennessee. Her students operate a website entitled Microfinance in Action; they are writing a book entitled “Microfinance in Action: A Guide for Teenagers,” and they’re producing a video-documentary on poverty and microfinance via their travels both nationally and internationally.
Biba Kavass is a tireless philanthropist, raising money via grant writing and crowd-funding for charity causes in numerous developing nations, including Uganda. Her resume is here.Biba has terminal Brain Cancer - she envisions this project as one of her last wonderful gifts for the world.
The "Biba Kavass Student Clinic" in Kyarumba will provide an annual salary to a medic - Edmond Thembo - to diagnose diseases, dispense curatives, and train the community in hygiene and disease prevention. The clinic will be provided with equipment and multiple medicines: Albendazole, Ivermectin, Praziquantel, Metronidazole, Coartem, etc.
A medic will also be hired for the "Embrace Global Change" clinic that will serve Nyakiyumbu Widows Orphanage.
45% of deaths in this region are caused by Malaria. The HIV/AIDS rate is also extremely high - 13% of the population.
(children in Kyarumba; photo by Douglas Cruickshank)
Prevention of parasites will be emphasized. Mental health is crippled by worms - 3.75 IQ points are lost per parasite infection. A Uganda study revealed 12.8% of children are infected with with hookworms, 9.6% with Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia), 4.3% with Ascaris, 8.5% with Giardia (protozoa) and 7.4% with Entamoeba histolytica.
(Bilharzia, above)
Uganda desperately needs health assistance because $280 million in foreign aid was cut in 2013, due to Uganda governmental corruption and graft. Several nations - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, and United States - also reduced their foreign aid to Uganda in 2014, due to displeasure with anti-gay bills.
information about Kyarumba is Here
Organizer
Hank Pellissier
Organizer
Oakland, CA
