Friday, April 23, 2010
World Malaria Day April 25th
Read the article link above. Aimee Heckel, journalist wrote this article a couple years ago about malaria. www.thinkhumanity.org
Thursday, April 22, 2010
World Malaria Day April 25, 2010. Think Humanity
Help us protect children from a deadly disease that kills millions of children each year.
You can make a difference for $5.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
World Malaria Day - April 25th, 2010
April 25th is World Malaria Day.
Think Humanity works in sub-Saharan Africa to provide refugees with mosquito nets. In this part of Africa a child under the age of 5 years dies from malaria every 30 seconds, but it is preventable when we provide them with an insecticide treated bed net for only $5 each. Most people can afford to help save the life of a child. The net lasts 3-5 years and several children can sleep under it. Just think about it before World Malaria Day. You can donate $5 and make a big difference in the world. Reach out to others. Think Humanity.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Uganda - One Doctor for 16,200 Refugees in Kyaka II
One Doctor for more than 16,000 Refugees in Kyaka IIThink Humanity is going into Kyaka II Refugee Camp in 2010 to distribute mosquito nets. Imagine if you were a refugee and you had one doctor for a community of more than 16,000? The camp is 80 square miles - try to get to that one pediatric ward where there are 9 beds and most days 3 children or more to each bed. Two children die from malaria on average per day from malaria in this clinic. We need to give out 4,000 nets to be effective yet we need your donation for this project. If you can donate $5 then we can provide a net for 4 children and potentially save their lives for the next 3 to 5 years. Think Humanity is a 501c3 tax deductible nonprofit organization. To read more about Kyaka II visit the above title link. To read more about Think Humanity visit http://www.thinkhumanity.org/.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Jewelry and Java for a Reason
March 13, 2010
5 to 8 pm
Come have a latte, shop for jewelry and help the refugee women of Uganda!
Solid Grounds Coffee Shop will be hosting a night of jewelryand fun promoting beautiful jewelry made by women in Africa. The beads are made out of recycled paper and all the proceeds go to Think Humanity and their work with refugees in Africa.
You can make a difference and help these women and their families.
Solids Grounds Coffee Shop
6504 S. Broadway
Centennial, Colorado 80121
Host: Becca Strait
Contact Becca at Becca@Nightlight.org 303-870-8661
We should also have handmade Acholi African baskets, sling purses and smaller purses for sale.
By purchasing the jewelry from the Acholi women it allows them to purchase food and to educate their children. We then send 100% from sales back to Think Humanity projects.
A portion of money raised will go towards helping girls' education by purchasing ground nuts and cabbages to provide them with a healthy diet.
Presently they are eating only posho, porridge made from maize flour.
Thank you for your support.
Video on YouTube of Acholi woman working in rock quarry in IDP camp.
Monday, February 15, 2010
MaNdate 7 Kyangwali refugees receive an additional 1,200 mosquito nets
January 2010, Jim and Beth Heckel, Joe Bergholz and Charity Watson; Think Humanity board members and volunteers spent time in Uganda visiting projects in the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement Camp in Hoima District and the Acholi Quarter Camp for internally displaced person located outside Kampala. Program Manager, Wereje Benson with other volunteers, demonstrate the proper use of a mosquito net.
The video shows the demonstration.
Joe Bergholz is shown giving nets to the refugees. Most of them were from the village of Rwenyawawa and had to walk several hours to get their $5 net.
Charity Watson, University of Colorado pre-med student speaks to the crowd.
Below, Joe gives nets to the refugees as their names are called from the list.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Crocs donated to refugees in Africa - Sycamore Creek Elementary School in Raleigh, NC - Think Humanity
The children of Sycamore Creek Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina had a variety show in November to raise money to provide Crocs to children in a refugee camp in Uganda. They also donated Crocs at the event. In total there were 342 pairs of shoes donated to children in Africa.In January, Think Humanity hand delivered hundreds of these shoes to the village of Nyamiganda in the Kyangwali Refugee Camp on the border of Uganda and the DRC.
The children all lined up and we had the parents stand back. Then the children sat down with their legs in front of them. We opened up the duffle bags that we had carried on a bike for 1 1/2 hour on a dusty red dirt road in the 80-90 degree 
heat.
heat.(In the photo to the left is Janvier, one of the orphans at the Coburwas Learning Centre located in Mukarange Village)
We brought a bullhorn and announced that we had shoes for the children. It wasn't long before many children started to arrive, most without shoes, many without clothing from the waist down.
The Think Humanity managers, Amani Jean-Paul and Nsabimana Emmanuel spoke to the crowd of parents and community. Beth and Jim Heckel, Charity Watson and Joe Bergholz (all from Colorado) spoke to the crowd and it was translated into Kinyabwisha because these refugees are from the North Kivu area of the Congo. We always try to encourage these refugees, give them hope and let them know that people outside of Kyangwali care about them. A pastor lead in prayer and we unzipped the bags and began. We had several volunteers that helped us fit shoes on the children. Thank you Pascal, Joseph, William and Ericson. The children were very patient. If the shoes didn't fit then we would try them on another child.
Most of the children received shoes, however not all of them because the crowd continued to grow and grow as the word got out that visitors had shoes for children. In the video you will see the many children lined up. Many of these children have never seen white people (they call them Muzungu) before so you will see one child run and cry when he sees me with the camera. Additional children in Mukarange, Kasonga and Kagoma villages received shoes too.
We told them that we would be back. Sycamore Creek sent five additional boxes to our P.O. Box in Hoima, but they had not arrived yet.
When the other shoes arrive they will be distributed to those that did not receive and also to other villages within the camp.
Thank you Sycamore Creek Elementary School children for your love and care for refugees in Africa. I will
be sending your school mascot,Kirby back soon. He is anxious to get back to North Carolina. He traveled to Denver, to Washington D.C., to Belgium, to Rwanda and to Uganda. On the way back he visited Ethiopia, Germany and then back to Denver. He has been resting for a couple weeks now and misses his school friends.
be sending your school mascot,Kirby back soon. He is anxious to get back to North Carolina. He traveled to Denver, to Washington D.C., to Belgium, to Rwanda and to Uganda. On the way back he visited Ethiopia, Germany and then back to Denver. He has been resting for a couple weeks now and misses his school friends.The children loved Kirby and everybody wanted to hold him! They also loved the shoes so much.
Beth Heckel, President
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