Thu 21st July 2011

VOLUNTEER TEAM HEADS TO EMBO

John Earwicker is leading a team of 12 volunteers to Embo from July 21 to August 6.  The team includes a doctor, several nurses and teachers.  They will work alongside the Cae Givers serving HIV/Aids patients and their families.  In adition, they will teach in local schools and help with the church creche.

For some, this is their first taste of sub-Saharan Africa and Embo will provide some culture shocks!

The Care Givers continue to serve over 300 families.  One patient this month was admitted to hospital suffering with a strain of tuberculosis that is drug resistant.  The woman is HIV positive and is on antiretrovirals.  But when she was treated for TB a year ago, she stopped taking the treatment because she was better.  This has led to the present complication.   Her husband died 4 years ago and she has two children at school.  Before being admitted to hospital, they had to live with the grandmother and, now unable to work, they depend on a small social grant for the grandmother.

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