Hey Everyone!

I am a recently graduated Masters student from Stanford University (USA). Our group of Oxford University and Stanford University students have come together to create a nonprofit startup that plans to use telemedicine to allow individuals in rural Kenya to manage their own healthcare. We are finalists for a $10,000 prize from Advanta Corp. Winning this competition will give us the money we need to do the initial fieldwork and set up the pilot project. Please help us get this money by voting for our idea on the competition website: http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/5535-Telemedicine-for-Rural-Kenya

A guide for Kenyan families and local populations to boost health by using local plants and traditional reciepies for health living and medical needs.

The website and recipies are provided to the public by a local NGO TICAH which stands for Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health

for more informaiton please visit their website:

http://ticah-interactive-guide.org/index.php

There is a index provided to identify useful plants as well, and can be found here:

http://ticah-interactive-guide.org/plants.php

http://bbcworldnews.survival.tv/documentaries/malaria.php

The Plant That Cures Malaria

Malaria kills a child every 30 seconds in Africa. This terrifying statistic upset and angered me. It was certainly motivation for making a film about how this carnage could be prevented.

Despite this stark fact my film is, I believe, an uplifting one. It's the story of an African hero, Clovis Kabaseke. A man with a big dream – to encourage African farmers to grow enough of the medicinal plant Artemisia Annua to wipe out Malaria.

Great information resource from agroup underway in Nyanza and western provinces to produce nutritional suppliments... A special feture for those of you we have been talking about local nutritional porridge as a social business...

http://www.changemakers.net/es/node/10357

Business plan included.

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