Articles by Beth Cole

Beth Cole, Director of Team Whole Health and Country Director for Uganda is an Acupuncture Physician and Yoga Instructor with a background in systems engineering. Along with RMF team member, Megan Yarberry, Beth has implemented acupuncture training programs for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in a refugee camp for Kenyan refugees; a school for children affected by war, natural disasters and HIV/AIDS; and a heroin rehabilitation center. In her private practice in St. Pete Beach, Florida, Beth blends together multiple holistic modalities to guide patients back to physical, emotional and spiritual wellness.

Urgent Help Needed: Can You Give $30 to Support Women and Children in Uganda?

November 20, 2008 in Uganda by Beth Cole | Comments closed

Dear Friends of Real Medicine,

Jane and her precious two daughters have been caught in the crossfire.

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Due to post election ethnic violence in Uganda, Jane, infected with AIDS and Tuberculosis, and her daughters Naomi and Lucy, were forced to seek refuge in Uganda. They had to leave life as they knew it behind and lost contact with their husband and father while fleeing Kenya. Support was made available for them at a temporary refugee camp in Uganda, but it was just that – temporary.

The Kenyan refugees were moved to a permanent camp in Northern Uganda this past spring. When Naomi was burning up with a raging Malaria fever no medication was available at the refugee clinic. The following morning 13 year old Naomi died before she could be transported to the hospital in town.

Why your support is so critical: At least 65 children are suffering from severe malnutrition and medications are desperately needed. Our urgent call for action is for food for these children and medical supplies for the clinic.

Imagine walking 2 miles with your child who is gravely ill to a clinic, only to find that there are not sufficient medical supplies or food available. While food and medicine from all other NGO’s has stopped, Real Medicine Foundation continues to provide comprehensive services to those in dire need of support and is the only hope for at least 2,000 refugees and their children.

But we need your help to sustain our efforts. Since our arrival on April 26th, we:
• Provided Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Relief
• Provided 14,578 Treatments
• Provided food and clothes
• Enrolled 250 Children in Nursery Schools
• Enrolled 588 Children in Primary Schools and 117 Children in Secondary Schools
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• Trained 21 qualified Kenyan refugee Health care providers

Donate now

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to help continue our efforts to provide these refugees with these critical primary care services.

Losing Naomi is a tragedy. But Jane and her daughter Lucy are still fighting for their lives… you CAN help, you CAN make a “Real” difference in their lives and countless others.

For just $30 per month, that’s $1 per day, Jane and many others like her can count on the medication and food to be there for her and her remaining daughter.

Please help us to put an end to the senseless deaths, trauma and grief for these people. Your contributions, no matter how big or how small can make the difference between life and death in a human’s life.

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Thank You, Beth Cole, Country Director Uganda, Real Medicine Foundation

Background: After the December 2007 Kenyan presidential elections ended in disputed results, ethnic violence erupted across the country. Approximately 1,500 people were killed and over 600,000 people were displaced. Schools, homes, churches and businesses were burnt to the ground. Many Kenyans ran for their lives with only the clothes on their backs. Many of the displaced persons escaped over the border into Uganda.

Update – Relief Efforts for Kenyan Refugees in Uganda

October 1, 2008 in Uganda by Beth Cole | Comments closed

Upon reaching Tororo, Uganda, the RMF team was greeted by Srs. Clare and Margaret, Franciscan sisters working at the Mama Kevina Comprehensive Secondary School in Tororo, Uganda. The student population at Mama Kevina is mostly from Northern Uganda where the children have been affected by the ongoing wars, floods and HIV/AIDS. Many of the students’ parents were slaughtered by rebels or killed by AIDS and left as orphans. Two of the boys were forced to be children soldiers.

Srs. Clare and Margaret and other Franciscans provided aid relief at the temporary Kenyan refugee camp, Mulanda Transit Center on the outskirts of Tororo. Refugees started coming to the transit center in January, and continued to arrive almost daily through the beginning of May. The RMF team arrived in Tororo in April 2008 to provide training in acupuncture protocols for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Upon arrival Sr. Clare introduced Charles Naku, a Young Franciscan and HIV/AIDS counselor. Charles was instrumental in navigating the RMF team around the refugee camp, making the necessary introductions and dispelling misconceptions regarding the training program.

During the training 21 Kenyan refugees with a health care background were trained in protocols for PTSD and over 500 patients ranging in age from 2 to 77 were treated by trainees during clinically supervised treatment sessions. The day after the trainees graduated from the training, the entire camp began packing their tents. The following day trucks and buses arrived to transport the refugees to their permanent home, Kiryadongo, in the Masindi district of Uganda. Prior to the relocation, Charles was selected as the local Ugandan Project Coordinator. Having spent months counseling at the refugee camp and participating in the acupuncture training provided at Mama Kevina, Charles was well qualified to assume the responsibilities of coordinating and supervising the ongoing acupuncture treatments at the new location in Kiryadongo.

Once the refugees were relocated the NGOs that had been supporting the refugees at the Mulanda Transit Center withdrew their material and human resource support leaving RMF as the sole NGO supporting the Kenyan refugees in Kiryadongo.

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You can help by donating here

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, and specifying Snow White: A Tale of Terror on dvd ‘Kenyan Refugees’ in the Note to Real Medicine.

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Real Medicine Uganda – Acupuncture Project in Uganda

July 21, 2007 in Uganda by Beth Cole | Comments closed

In cooperation with The Pan African Acupuncture Project, Beth Cole, Director of RMF’s Whole Health Team, initiated a training for local health care providers, including nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, medical doctors, traditional healers and HIV/AIDS counselors, in acupuncture protocols in Uganda, a country devastated by HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The training teaches simple and effective acupuncture techniques that enable the health care providers to treat the devastating and debilitating symptoms associated with HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB.

Our acupuncture project takes place in Ibanda in southwestern Uganda at Ibanda Hospital and at a local free clinic. Trainings are also in Masaka and Mbarara. More than 120 local health care providers have been successfully trained since December 2006. Their treatment successes have been followed up on with a second training in spring 2007, a third training will follow this summer.

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