Tuesday, January 27, 2009

AVIF Volunteers in Kenya



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Here's a great idea .. treat malaria & greatly reduce the chance of catching it again by giving people a simple way of pasteurizing their water supply, freely & easily. We'd need a massive network of people all over the world, in all the crisis points, in all the worst hit areas ..SolarCooking.org already have this, in operation. I've asked Solarcooking if they'll join forces.Of course we've first got to answer the scary question "what if Clo2 (MMS) hurts us?"We are 90% water.I swim 3-4km/week in a local pool for exercise while my children play in the water .. Clo2 is used to sanitize that water. Chlorine dioxide (Clo2) is used because low concentrations kill bacteria, viruses and protozoa. Clo2 is used to disinfect our water supplies and exists in certain mouth washes to clear oral bacteria. Clo2 sanitizes food preparation facilities and is FDA approved as a spray in the meat packing industry to sanitize meat. Jim Humble simply can't afford the $$$millions to get FDA approval for internal biological usage although its used to sanitize vegetables and other foods, farmers use it to cleanse the udders of cows during milking, to rid eggs of pathogenic bacteria & it was widely used during the Foot and Mouth & the HN5 Bird Flu pandemics.We've all had flu or a common cold. Clo2, or its marketing name, MMS, has been proven .. PROOOOOOVEN .. to kill the virus causing flu & colds. It will kill any other bacteria, virus or protozoa. Like other products widely available, however, it can't stop you catching a cold, or getting cancer .. you'd have to live in an oxygen tank to do that! Suffering from the flu again and again every 2 to 3 days is what malaria feels like, except the body doesn't get much chance to recover, the immune system is overwhelmed and it can kill you. The World Health Organisation states that 300 to 500 MILLLLLLION clinical cases of malaria are reported each year simply due to patients being too poor to have clean water. 2,800 children under 5 die from malaria EVERY DAY in sub saharan Africa?As Dr Hesselink's paper reads "Clo2 has been proven to be cidal to almost all known infectious agents in vitro using remarkably low concentrations. .. this compound is tolerable orally at effective concentrations". Dr Brady Hurst, a qualified clinical neurologist talks openly in an earlier blog.Looking at it from another perspective, possibly the reason this product is so successful in Africa, is because the africans don't primarily think to sue Mr Humble if they get nauseous! They just want to get well. Too many "westerners" are just too scared to believe the truth these days for fear of being scammed or hurt. Too many western doctors are too scared to approve MMS for fear of being sued by a patient, which is interesting when you remember it was the FDA that said Phalidimide and Vioxx were safe?Perhaps you're getting bored by now, or haven't time to read on anymore because you've another 147 emails to get through or blogs to write. Our lives are too busy, too stressful, yadda yadda yadda ;-)..... If you're still reading & can stomach it, read some of the text documented after 100's & 100's of hours of scientific and lab based research that explains how and why Clo2 works internally at low doses and why nausea is a side effect. What happens to your body when you get food poisoning or drink way too much alcohol? You uncontrollably throw up, eventually get diarrhoea and are forced to detox. Your body will automatically cleanse itself .. the human immune system is f'ing amazing, but in todays world we're bombarding it with way too much, not getting enough natural nutrients, etc. etc. so we just can't cope .. and people are dying, in developed countries, by the thousands, from cancer, while in developing countries they're dying from cold viruses !! ..Cancer is not a disease, its the immune system being unable to cope anymore against the billions of pathogens that we have to share our planet with.If you go out this weekend and get ridiculously drunk and spend the next day recovering, thats your immune system working overtime. It won't kill you unless you're doing it constantly and it can't cope. Taken internally, intermittently and in low doses, MMS has been found to be a powerful immune stimulant.Give your immune system a helping hand.Better yet help AVIF create an income-generating business for the people who need it most, putting kits together, helping others & spreading the word. Contact us if you want more info.N.B. Self medication can be harmful if you don't carefully follow the advice given in the kits. Better yet .. get advice from a qualified practitioner first.AVIF Volunteers in Kenya, AVIF Volunteers in Kenya, Oct 2008



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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Rural Healthcare Initiative

Using a donated laptop, 100 recycled cell phones, and a copy of FrontlineSMS, the Senior in Stanford University's Program in Human Biology, Josh Nesbit, alongside Kiwanja's Ken Banks, set up an SMS-based communications network for a rural hospital and its Community Health Workers ... read more here on the project that will shortly be coming to the ArrowWeb Hospital in Kayole-Soweto, Kenya. The ArrowWeb Hospital is assisted via NABUUR's virtual village system.






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Thursday, January 15, 2009

F-art

Another fantastic post from Afrigadget that will leave you laughing as well as hopefully passing on a fabulous self-sustaining energy source project to the folks that need it.



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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Project Africa

I'd like to introduce Lindy and Project Africa.
Lindy Wafula grew up in hardship in Kenya and it made her strive to improve problems such as unemployment, illiteracy, HIV/Aids and gender inequality.

Project Africa’s mission is to promote the dignity and integrity of an African person & especially to empower African women with skills and resources for enterprise development. They also learnt about the powerful marketing power of FaceBook and their group is ever-growing here.

The project provides education and training for women and children and runs volunteering camps to aid this & promote awareness. We'd like to emphasize the locations of these projects which basically sell themselves to anyone wishing to experience Kenya and some of the most breath-taking scenery in the world. Kakamega was experienced in 2007 by Marie who wrote in an update "Went to Kakamega forest last weekend, a beautiful untouched virgin rainforest. Saw 3 species of monkeys, many butterflys, birds and amazing medicinal plants and trees..."



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Another project is in LungaLunga on the south coast of Mombasa. This video portrays the sad state of the only school there and why something needed to be done to improve the childrens future.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Fundraising

Zoe & James are setting up a donation page on Justgiving to aid fundraising while they prepare for the Edinburgh Marathon May 31, 2009. They're fundraising for AVIF & The Mercy Home Foundation.



At the same time Simon is setting off on his epic cycling trip from Cairo to Capetown, fundraising for us and the Tour d'Afrique Foundation. His funds raised so far have secured another years secondary education for 2 young men, Pius, aged 17 & Norbert, aged 18, in Yala District.



Tour d'Afrique have invited the boys to attend a dinner with them as the entire group pass through Kenya at the beginning of March half way through their 7000 mile journey.

A truly inspiring event for all and another recognition that we're all doing good and really making a difference.


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Saturday, January 03, 2009

Lupus

I've been speaking with Sharon today, our fantastic Managing Trustee in Nairobi, Kenya. I wanted to share her story because its a powerful one. Published by the wonderful Lupus.Org, of the DC-based Lupus Foundation of America the story explains plainly the problem in Kenya of a lack of education in even the most highly trained medical personnel.


Sharon knows she is lucky to have had family living in the US who correctly & quickly were able to diagnose her but thousands in Kenya do not have this luxury. Sharon has already started a support group. There is a group on Facebook too. With already nearly 5,500 members, this isn't a small issue. If you or a family member or friend suffer from the numerous types of Lupus, pass the word on.


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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Birthday celebrations for ALL

I'd like to wish my good friend Simon a Happy Birthday for January 11th. I can't say it on the day as he'll be cycling through Egypt taking part in the Tour d'Afrique enjoying an incredible experience as well as raising money for their foundation and AVIF too.

To help in fundraising, prior to flying off to Cairo Friday, Simon is hoping to set up his FaceBook Birthday Cause. [That link shows Amy Sample Ward's page explaining more]. Causes, the social change application belonging to Facebook, now sends all users a message two weeks before their birthday encouraging them to set up a cause asking people to donate to their favourite charity rather than send a card or buy a gift.
Brilliant idea!

The technology behind the Birthday Cause page allows access to the charity's own page as well as telling the charity who the donor is. It will also be wonderful for Simon to be able to log on on rest days [this "rest day" list also illustrates just exactly HOW COOL this experience will be] :


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Egypt

Friday January 16th Luxor
Sudan
Sunday January 25th Dongola
Friday January 30th Khartoum
Ethiopia
Friday February 6th Gondor
Monday February 9th Bahir Dar
Sunday February 15th Addis Ababa
Friday February 20th Arba Minch
Kenya

Saturday February 28th Marsabit
Saturday March 7th Nairobi
Tanzania
Tuesday March 10th Arusha
Wednesday March 11th Arusha
Thursday March 12th Arusha
Friday March 20th Iringa
Malawi

Thursday March 26th Chitimba Beach
Wednesday April 1st Lilongwe
Zambia
Tuesday April 7th Lusaka
Saturday April 11th Victoria Falls
Sunday April 12th Victoria Falls
Botswana
Saturday April 18th Maun
Namibia
Friday April 24th Windhoek
Wednesday April 29th Sossusvlei
Sunday May 3rd Felix Unite

End - 9th May 2009 Capetown

Thats what I call a Welcome to a New Year.

BEST WISHES, Simon & ASANTE SANA FROM ALL OF US ASSOCIATED WITH AVIF

xx


Saturday, December 13, 2008

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Thorntons and AVIF

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Luxury Christmas & Chocolate Gifts at Thorntons

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You can also get gift-wrapping and product icing on selected gifts and take the hassle out of Christmas by having the gifts delivered direct.

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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

TouchGraph

AVIF is a big network of people so when I first heard of FaceBook and got involved it made a massive difference to us all. Social networking can be harnessed to do good in many ways, here's my Guru Beth Kanter with a few tips. Latest to hit my NewsFeed (despite its creation way back in 2001) is New Jersey based TouchGraph. This discovery comes at a really ace time of year, Christmas!

Touchgraph works through FaceBook to create a large (png. format) pictograph of the network that IS your friends & family.



Here's a small version of mine. Click on it to link to the main picture on the AVIF website. The software utilises Java 1.5 to launch a browser on your pc after Adding the App from FaceBook. It then create stats of your network as well as the "powerful visualisation" of your "relationships between people, organisations and ideas". I'm not sure at this point how it rates friends but it is great fun, especially at the time of year when people should be sending greetings and thinking about friends & family & others. As Touchgraph quote "the greatest insights can be achieved not by sifting, but by looking at the big picture to see how items are connected."




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Thursday, December 04, 2008

3 for 2 at www.buy.at/AVIF

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3 for 2 at Marks and Spencer.

Choose anything, at any price, from any range in the Marks and Spencer 3 for 2 Christmas shop and you'll get every third item free.

From beauty gifts to books, boys' toys to decorations for the home, there's a wealth of ideas for Christmas.

It's even better value when you buy 6 or more gifts.

With the Marks and Spencer 3 for 2 you get every third product free, in descending price order.  This means that if you buy nine gifts, the ones you get free are the 3rd, 6th and 9th most expensive, not the three cheapest.

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Simply visit AVIF's homepage and you can send Christmas greetings to anyone with an email address, donating to us if you can. You can even upload a video for real-time greetings.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The fight continues

My good friend, Mama Brique, is back from Kenya after a whirlwind tour and press frenzy, to see how things are progressing in reclaiming the Virginia M Buena Childrens Centre in the slums of Nakuru from the tyrant, Philip Ndeta. I've included that link but am hoping, after reporting his profile to LinkedIn that it won't be active for much longer.

AVIF had dealings with Ndeta in 2006, after volunteers staying at the centre highlighted the management problems, albethem small. We had no idea of their real plans at the time.



Brique is Director of LLK, a german purely voluntary organisation whose vast achievements include raising over EU380,000 from wellwishers and friends to construct a home for more than 500 children in Nakuru's Mwariki estate.

Ndeta was given charge of the Centre but went on to register it secretly in his own name, evict the majority of children there and take it over. Unfortunately he has many contacts after trying and failing to run for office in the local elections, he put out an order prohibiting Brique to enter the premises, which are named in momory of her own Mother. When she arrived to take photos of the centre, Ndeta's "forces" tried to lock the entire party inside .. press and all??

The 2 year fight continues despite apologies from Vice President Moody Awori and the Director of Children Services. Ndeta still dismisses the accusations as "lies", saying he "built the centre himself".

All is not lost, however, as while Ndeta struggles to keep the ruined centre intact, LLK have reallocated almost all the children into another school with full feeding programs and regular support to make life easier for all those enrolled. We commend LLK and friends for all that they are doing during these difficult times and wish them well in their endeavours. With Brique's passion and spirit they're all in good hands.





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Thursday, November 20, 2008

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Your M and SnextPlay.com hmv.com Travelcare
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Purchases made through www.buy.at/AVIF are made according to the information and terms provided by the company making the sale to you. Further details on using the buy.at shop are provided on the site.