Through the SHARE Orphan Sponsorship (SOS) program, we provide education, health care, social services, and basic necessities to AIDS orphans in western Kenya. Financial contributions are needed in order for us to continue supporting these children. For only $500 a year, you can make a difference in the life of a child through the SHARE Orphan Sponsorship (SOS) program. That’s just $1.37/day.
EMS Education
The first comprehensive EMS (Emergency Medical Services) program by SHARE was instituted in Kenya in 1993. The program utilizes paramedic instructors from the U.S. and Kenya who teach community, basic, and advanced prehospital care courses as well as in-hospital advanced education.
Hear about our EMS program and other healthcare services projects or read the transcript of a 60 second Public Service Announcement.
SOLAR OVEN – in place for more than 5 years; a January 2010 project update:
In the small village of Ayugis in Kenya’s Lake Victoria area, SHARE donated a small commercial-size solar oven to a village of widows as a means of providing economic empowerment to them. The plan was that the women would bake using the naturally abundant solar power, perhaps convert it into a business that can sustain them. Other drivers were that the women would not be gathering wood all day to cook later in the tiny huts where they live. It is well documented that such practices are to the detriment of their health not to mention the environment. The solar oven was purchased in the USA and shipped there in 2004.
Some of SHARE construction projects in Kenya have included an operating theater, clean water systems for hospitals, pit latrines for schools, and a dispensary mini-hospital.
Dr. MacGuffie in front of the dispensary.
SHARE has completed the construction of a $35,000 dispensary in the vicinity of Lake Victoria. That facility will serve as a clinic to approximately 150,000 people who live in one of the highest AIDS affected communities in western Kenya.
SHARE has started a number of projects to help prevent specific diseases in western Kenya.
Shipping container
Three shipping containers with over $1.6 million worth of medical equipment and supplies have been sent to Kenya. The contents are distributed to local and district hospitals. SHARE will soon have another container ready to ship.
By contributions from pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., SHARE has provided thousands of dollars worth of chemotherapeutic drugs for treatment of cancer in children who had neither help nor hope.
