- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Collecting donated smart phones
ORGANIZATION: AIDSfreeAFRICA
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Educating young people about HIV/AIDS via smart phone has shown to be effective. If we give young people in Cameroon smart phones they can afford the cost to buy airtime. This way we can send educational messages or reminders to take their medicine.
Please ask your friends, family, co-workers - anyone to give you their smart phone when they no longer need it. Collect phone with charger and in working condition. It has to be a smart phone that can take a sim card. Android preferred or i-phone is OK.
Let me know how many you collect and I will send you an address in New York where to ship them to. We will make a map of all locations in the US that donate. Would be nice to have at least one in each state.
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About AIDSfreeAFRICA
Location:
125 S HIGHLAND AVE 3-B1, OSSINING, NY 10562, US
Mission Statement
AIDSfreeAFRICA is a community of professionals dedicated to empowering Africans to become self-sufficient in producing quality pharmaceuticals, to improving access to essential medicines and diagnostics, and to enhancing science education for students and professionals. The Vision of AIDSfreeAFRICA is Africa free of HIV/AIDS. We see providing the world with the capacity to produce lifesaving drugs as an expression of our commitment to peace, health and human dignity. Guiding Principles: AIDSfreeAFRICA’s work is based on the principles of self-sustainability and active participation of the people who the intervention must benefit. We look for win-win situations and opportunities where relatively small contributions produce ripple effects to create extraordinary lasting results that change people’s lives for years to come.
Description
AIDSfreeAFRICA is a small non-profit based in the U.S. that supports the people of Cameroon. After supporting the building of local facilities to package bulk drugs, we are in the process of building a quality control laboratory in Cameroon to determine the efficacy and safety of imported and locally-produced medications. We send donated equipment for use in clinics, hospitals and science laboratories. Another project is the MalariaFreeZone, which promotes the use of old mosquito nets to cover windows and doors to reduce vulnerability to malaria-carrying mosquitoes while indoors. We also use state-of-the-art science to diagnose the different strains of malaria.
Improving African's health is a crucial precondition to improving the local economies and lifting people out of poverty. Traditional models of "charity" do not suffice for a crisis of this scope. Rather, an intervention model that is self-sustainable and replicable is best. Today people generally consider food, shelter and education basic human rights. AIDSfreeAFRICA adds access to essential drugs to this list. We believe it is essential that developing countries have their own local pharmaceutical production facilities. Supported by AIDSfreeAFRICA, trained pharmacists and technicians have begun to package and distribute drugs to get them to doctors and hospital pharmacies where these drugs will be available to the patients who need them. A healthy population is needed to take advantage of Africa's natural resources and latent wealth to lift the continent out of poverty.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
February 7, 2018
SKILLS
- Disaster Response
- Networking
- Public Speaking
- Relationship Building
- Interactive/Social Media/SEO
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- talk about your volunteer work everywhere you go.
- outgoing personality, comfortable to ask for things