Friday, November 16, 2007
One Woman's Run for Health Care
Posted by Karen Shugart on Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 5:02 PM
If you have a moment, check out this blog by a woman who’s running a half marathon (13.1 miles) on Dec. 8 to raise money for health care in Africa.
Joy Doner of Charlotte, 27, is leaving her physical therapy job in Rock Hill to work in South Africa with the nonprofit African Medical Mission. She’ll be working in the Transkei region, which, according to a South African newspaper cited on AMM’s Web site, is “on the brink of collapse and one of apartheid’s worst legacies and the Eastern Cape’s biggest nightmares … it is under funded, marginalized, has little infrastructure or communications, and its services are collapsing.”
Here’s a few words from the press release that Joy's friend, Meg Handley, sent:
Joy’s endeavors represent a growing need for the people of America to educate themselves on extreme poverty issues in our country and around the world. Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than $1 a day. Seventy one percent of South African residents live in extreme poverty and 38% are unemployed, resulting in the inability to pay for appropriate health care, (www.southafrica.info). The region also suffers from a lack of trained professionals. Joy’s expertise and ability to volunteer will help in some small way to improve the health and wellbeing of countless individuals and take a step toward ending extreme poverty by educating the community.
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