SHOOTING GALLERY: Out + ABORT…4REAL – Kenya Screening Fundraiser
February 14th, 2008 Filed under: Exclusive!, News/Calendar/Industry, Shooting Gallery by admin
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(ABOVE: 4REAL Host/Producer Sol Guy takes a time out with ABORT Mag /Photo- Emmylou Benson)
WHO: 4REAL -4real.com
WHAT: A brilliant and important new program to enlighten and stimulate the conscious to understand that we need to do….more.
WHY: Creators Sol Guy and Josh Thome have seen the devastation enveloping their surroundings both in Vancouver and abroad and decided to do more than most people. Mission accomplished.
WHEN: Airing Nationwide on CTV and MTV April 15/08 , 4REAL will air globally in April 2008 on National Geographic International Channel (not including Canada, U.S., and U.K.) in 166 countries and 35 languages.
The Cause: Salim and Carolina for Kibera are raising money to build Kibera’s first real hospital—Tabitha Medical Clinic—employing dozens of nurses and doctors.
Unlike its present clinic, which must refer serious cases to a hospital about an hour walk away, the new hospital will have a lab, Kibera’s first x-ray machine, and free anti-retroviral drugs for HIV positive Kiberans. An estimated 20 percent of all Kiberans are HIV positive. At present, the clinic can only provide testing and counseling but not the medications themselves.
Construction started in March 2007 and will be finalized in March 2008.
“We’re about 85% of the way there,” says Salim of the $240,000 hospital price tag. “We’ve got enough now to build everything but the offices. We just need to raise another $55,000 and we’ll be there.”
The new hospital will handle more than 200 clients a day and will treat over 30,000 patients per year.
A green facility, designed pro bono by an Architect for Humanity, Dr. Reuben Mutiso, the hospital will trap rainwater as well as use solar panels for energy.Do your part tune in for 4REAL and then donate at:
givemeaning.com/project/tabithaclinic
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