SHARE Africa

SHARE is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1987 by Dr. Martha M. MacGuffie, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and Dr. Renée M. Brilliant, a pediatric hematologist. It is based in Rockland County, New York with an affiliate in Mbita, Kenya, Africa.

Our Mission:

SHARE’s mission is to save lives, foster a sustainable future, and vastly improve the quality of life of children and adults in African communities devastated by AIDS, life threatening diseases, and abject poverty.

How we carry out our mission:

SHARE carries out its mission through a 3-pronged approach: education, health care, and economic sustainability.

SHARE’s projects are focused on Kenya’s Nyanza province; a region in critical need of help due to its extremely high incidence of AIDS, abject poverty, geographical remoteness, and lack of health care infrastructure. We carry out our mission though a variety of projects, including these long term programs:

1. SHARE Orphan Sponsorship (SOS) program: provides schooling, boarding, health care, and social care to children orphaned by AIDS. Through the generosity of individual sponsors, children receive quality education, healthy living, and an opportunity for a productive adult life.
2. Emergency Medical Services program: trains Kenyan medics, and carries out other public health and environmental initiatives.
3. Healthcare initiatives, including health and nutritional education and provision of medical and psychosocial training and services by visiting U.S. physicians and other allied healthcare workers in Nyanza province, where there is only 1 local doctor for every 100,000 people.
4. Women’s Empowerment program: creates sustainable opportunities for women through micro-economic projects based on solar ovens, tea farms, and sewing machines.

Board of Directors, SHARE U.S.A.

The following individuals serve on the Board of SHARE U.S.A.

1. Usha Wright – President and Chairman
2. Jerry Warshaw – Vice President
3. Bob Broadhurst – Treasurer
4. David Violante – Secretary
5. Dr. Jeffrey Karasik – Medical Director
6. Madeleine C. Blanc
7. Judy Boyian
8. Rajesh Dhawan
9. Lynn Cluess-Manzione

Board of Directors, Dr. Bobby MacGuffie’s SHARE Programme, Kenya

1. Brother Andreas – Chairman
2. Peter Ogada
3. Tom Mboya Odhiambo
4. Everlyne Anyango Kamarian – Secretary
5. Alphonse Masime – Staff Representative

EMS Team, U.S.A.

1. David Violante
2. William Jeffries

Medical & EMS Advisor, Kenya

1. Dr. Ambrose Ooko Misore

Former Board Members, SHARE U.S.A.

The following individuals have served on the Board of SHARE U.S.A. in the past. We are grateful for their contribution.

1. Dr. Martha MacGuffie – Founder and President Emeritus
2. Deanna J. Simon
3. Keith Rosario
4. Louis J. Bassik
5. Dr. Renée M. Brilliant
6. George Eaton
7. Syd Farber
8. Bill Klein