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Thank You For An Amazing Year!

January 4, 2012 in Africa, Armenia, Asia, Disaster Relief, Donate, Europe, General, Helping Children, India, Japan, Kenya, Mission, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Providing Medical Support, Rebuilding Communities, South America, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda, Whole Health by Jonathan White | Comments closed

Photo: Dr. Martina C. Fuchs, RMF Founder/CEO, making new friends at the Lwala, Kenya Community Hospital, October 1, 2011

We are so grateful to all our friends, supporters and teams around the world and wish everyone a fantastic 2012!

Having wrapped up another successful we want to pause and say a huge THANK YOU to all of you who supported our work in 2011. You have helped us achieve so much, and we give our deep thanks to everyone for your generosity and support!

In 2011 we..

In Japan, post-earthquake and tsunami, RMF reached over 33,000 people in Ishinomaki City with supplies, debris/sludge cleanup, and community center support.
In India, in RMF’s Malnutrition Eradication Program, our field staff of 75 Community Nutrition Educators diagnosed and treated 85,016 cases of Acute Malnutrition in more than 600 villages since our program started in 2010.
In Uganda, we provided healthcare, education and vocational training support to 55,000 refugees at the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement.
In South Sudan, 40 Nurses and Midwives at the RMF sponsored first-ever accredited Nursing and Midwifery College in Juba, are beginning their 2nd year of training.
In Pakistan, RMF treated more than 25,000 flood victims at our free medical camps, 32,000 patients at our clinic in Gulbella and provided healthcare in Talhatta for more than 150,000.
In Haiti, our free clinic at Hôpital Lambert Santé provided public access to 24-hour emergency and general healthcare to a community that is home to more than 100,000 displaced persons.
In Kenya, we upgraded the only hospital for 1,000,000 people in Lodwar, Turkana, starting with the pediatric ward and also continued to provide medical support, food and water to thousands through mobile and stationary clinics in the poorest and most drought ravaged regions in Kenya.
Closer to home, in South Los Angeles, RMF provided 70 children with new backpacks filled with school supplies and personal products, and just threw a Holiday Party for these children on December 17th.

From all of us at RMF: Have a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2012!

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Nigeria: RMF partner doctor receives Presidential award

January 3, 2011 in Africa, In the news, Nigeria, Providing Medical Support by Jonathan White | Comments closed

In recognition of his work in forging a partnership between Real Medicine and the Nigerian Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Dr. Ufuoma Ejughemre was awarded with the President’s NYSC Honor Service award on December 6th in Abuja, Nigeria.

RMF Doctor Ufuoma Ejughemre receiving award from Nigeria's President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Dr. Ufuoma was posted to the clinic in Gure during his Nigerian Youth Service corp 1 year medical posting. All doctors in Nigeria participate in the NYSC’s medical volunteering program for one year before there residency at a hospital. The majority of the clinics that NYSC manages are in very rural/underserved areas of Nigeria which are happy to receive the service of young doctors in their communities.

The NYSC program is modeled on a similar service program for doctors in Israel. Dr. Ufuoma initially approached RMF with the idea of a partnership at the clinic in Gure where he was posted during his service and began the collaboration between RMF and NYSC. RMF has filled the gaps in medicine and supplies over the past year at the Gure clinic and has continued it’s role as a partner with the NYSC organization after Dr. Ufuoma had left to begin his residency.

We are very proud that Dr. Ufuoma and our clinic collaboration has been recognized by the President of Nigeria and we look forward to continuing our work with the NYSC and the newly posted doctor’s to the Gure clinic.

For more information about our clinic please visit our website at:

http://www.realmedicinefoundation.org/initiative/healthcare-project-gure-baruteen-kwara-state-nigeria

To contribute to this or any of our other initiatives, please click the Donate button below or through our website at realmedicinefoundation.org.

Founding partner of Nigeria clinic partnership, Dr. Ufuoma

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Last 3 days to give!

December 29, 2010 in Africa, Armenia, Asia, Athletes for Real Medicine, Burma, Disaster Relief, Donate, Europe, Events, General, Haiti, Helping Children, In the news, India, Indonesia, Initiatives, Kenya, Los Angeles, Mission, Mozambique, Nigeria, North America, Pakistan, Partners, Peru, Providing Medical Support, Rebuilding Communities, South America, Sri Lanka, Strategies for the Future, Sudan, Thank You, Uganda, Videos, Voices from the Field, Whole Health by Jonathan White | Comments closed

If you were considering donating to a worthy cause in 2010 and taking advantage of the tax benefits of charitable donations, now is your last chance to contribute!

As we look towards new efforts and projects in 2011 it is only through your generous funding that we will be able to continue our long term development projects in some of the poorest areas on this planet.

As you know, we have set the goal of raising $100,000 by December 31^st, and would greatly appreciate if you consider Real Medicine for your year-end donation.

In the spirit of Real Medicine Foundation’s concept of “Friends helping Friends helping Friends” so much is possible when we do it together.

From all of us here at Real Medicine: Thank you for your support!

Make your year-end donation now.

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For full PDF version of our report, please click on the link below:

RMF ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010

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On the Road in Nigeria: a Journey in Photos

May 25, 2010 in Jonathan White, Nigeria, Voices from the Field by Real Medicine Foundation Staff | Comments closed

Photos by Jonathan White

Visiting RMF programs, Jonathan White, RMF Director of International Relations, has traveled from Uganda to Southern Sudan, completing his marathon 3-week journey across Africa in Nigeria where he met staff and patients at the Gure Model Healthcare Clinic.

Nigeria has the 4th lowest survival rate of children under five out of 191 countries, a child mortality rate of 140 of 1000, and a maternal mortality rate accounting for 10% of the global burden of maternal deaths.

Real Medicine Foundation has partnered with the Kwara State Ministry of Health, The Nigerian Youth Service Corps and Gure Gwassoro Ward Development Committee to support the long abandoned Gure Model Health Center. Situated near the Nigerian/Benin Republic border, the clinic is the only access to healthcare for a population of 154,376 in the Baruteen Local Government area and its surrounding towns.

RMF has been funding facility upgrades, providing medicines, medical equipment, and local staff to increase and strengthen its capacity to deliver best practice western medicine and critical maternal child health care services. Read more about RMF: Nigeria

See all the photos from the trip

Meet RMF: Team Nigeria

Real Medicine Nigeria – Restoration of Free Clinic for Children in the Makoko Slum

July 20, 2007 in Nigeria by adivasichetna | Comments closed

Sorority Row movie download Makoko is a shantytown in Lagos State with an estimated population of 50,000 people. The majority live in wooden huts built on stilts sunk into the dark waters of the Lagos lagoon. Makoko waterside inhabitants are mainly fishermen, who go out to fish in the night and stay indoors during the day, while the women take the fish to sell in the market or to dry. The maximum family income is about $50/month. The vast majority lives on less than $1 a day. The social infrastructure in Makoko is very poor. The mainland does not have good roads, the area lacks potable water and the waterside is devoid of a sewage disposal system. This results in high morbidity from malaria, diarrhea and other infectious diseases. To reduce the high morbidity and mortality, medical volunteers in conjunction with the Nigerian Red Cross organized a free clinic for children under the age of five years in 2001.

This clinic also provided care for the children in the motherless babies’ home being run by the Nigerian Red Cross in the area. The clinic was shut down the following year because of lack of support from other stakeholders.

Real Medicine Foundation is restoring this Free Clinic for Children in the Makoko Slum, Lagos, Nigeria, to provide free pediatric care services to the estimated 15,000 children under the age of 12 years (primary school age) in this Lagos slum.

Nigeria

Thank You For An Amazing Year!

Nigeria: RMF partner doctor receives Presidential award

Last 3 days to give!

Hot off the presses: Our 2009/2010 Annual Report!

On the Road in Nigeria: a Journey in Photos

Real Medicine Nigeria – Restoration of Free Clinic for Children in the Makoko Slum

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