HIV Transmission Prevention in pregnant women.

We are glad to report that two women have recently given birth under our program, receiving the meds to help prevent transmission, and now receiving the milk powder. See program description below in our blog.

Another Happy Ending

Snoodle the Poodle was left behind when his family moved. Trying to make it as a street dog, he was attacked by another dog and bitten in the face. His left eye was closed and the large puncture wound above it was oozing puss all down his little face. His leg was also dislocated. Dr Sam took good care of him, he is playing happily now and Dr Sam's partner, Khun Oh is keeping him!

More Doggie News.

A big THANK YOU to Heidi Miller for sponsoring 'Panda" and 'Black-to-Brown'?! Shown here going for her spay operation, with Panda (previously neutered) looking on. She was starving and too sick to be spayed when we first found her.

We're still looking for someone to sponsor a pennyless old woman and take over from Gary and me! Please see Post of March 24, 2010.

New: HIV Prevention Program!

We are happy to present a brief overview of our new program just started, in Takua Pha, Thailand:

ALL FOR VILLAGES-HIV PREVENTION FUND
A program for low-income pregnant women.

OBJECTIVES:

* To prevent HIV transmission from pregnant, HIV-positive women to their unborn children.

* To cover the costs of this medication and blood tests for mother and child, for patients who can not afford it and who have no health card. (Frequently these women are Burmese.)

* To provide supplementary salary for Interpreter/Health Educator, starting at 3,000 Baht/month. (approximately $100/mo.)

* AND … OUR HOPE: To provide powdered milk for the baby, for one year, because breast milk can transmit HIV. This, unfortunately, is expensive!


Fundraising will be done by Gro Kalsaas, Amanda de Normanville and Gary Soden, and the non-profit, California-based organization All for Villages, Inc.

Takua Pha hospital staff will implement the program, following the model of the Norwegian/All for Villages Fund, with a dedicated bank account. For this Prevention program receipts for each disbursement will be provided.

If you would like to donate specifically to this fund, please write 'HIV Prevention' on your check, and mail to All for Villages, Inc. 530 Green Court, Santa Rosa, CA USA.
Thank you so much.

Latest Doggie News

We are proud of our accomplishments for the past 5 months!

SPAYED: 45 dogs, 3 cats.

NEUTERED: 6 dogs, 2 cats.

RABIES SHOTS: 56+

In addition a number of emergencies have been handled, including a cow at the Temple for a horn that had grown into it's head! a dog with 2 broken legs and motorbike accidents. Many mange treatments were done for dogs, and deworming meds given to dozens of puppies.

True, it's difficult to get to the whole street dog population, BUT each one we fix saves a potential 125 puppies by the 3ed generation (1 and 1/2 years) - 1 dog has 5; 5 each have 5; the 25 each have 5 = 125!

It is also saving many of them from horrifying, painful deaths, and the local communities can take better care of the fewer dogs.

We always appreciate your donations, small or large, to help us continue helping these forgotten doggies. Donations may be sent to:

All for Villages, Inc.
530 Green Court,

Santa Rosa, CA 95404.

U.S.A.

A Laptop for our Island School

Thank you to 'Computer Recycling' from Santa Rosa, California for their generous donation of two Dell Laptop Computers. One has been given by Amanda to Bon Soon School where our grade 5 & 6 students willl share and learn more about computers and English. Currently there are 30 students, 5 of them will now benefit from this generous gift. The students will be able to take the laptop home on the weekend and practise with assigned tasks from their teachers.

Pictured are: Pupai, My, Fluke, Bee and First with Amanda......in the kitchen area of their school

CAN YOU SPONSOR THIS LOVELY OLD WOMAN?

She lives in Bang Muang, Thailand, and has no income. Since her expenses are very low, we think that she can live on about 2,000 Baht a month (appx. $60/month, or $720 for the year, starting this July.) She was receiving money from a non-profit, but that has stopped! She has no family and is living thanks to neighbors and friends who are helping her out. But this is not a well-to-do community. Her one-room house, plus bathroom, was built for her by another non-profit, and she keeps it and her little yard meticulously clean. I am hoping that we can find a sponsor. Gary and I have given money to last through June 2010. She has an ATM card which she knows how to use, and we can put 6 months money into that account each time we go to Thailand. Thanks for anything you can do.

Takua pa Hospital Fund initiated by: Lars & Eva Henrikssen and now taken over and administered by Amanda DeNormanville & Gary Soden on behalf of All for Villages.

Our hospital fund for poor people served 25 patients in the past 6 months. Here are just six of them: (Exchange rate appx 100 Baht = $3; 1,000 Bt = $30)

* 42 y o woman with AIDS and blind in one eye, needed help to pay for transport to Sonkla University, in the south, and treatment for CMV Retinitis. 4,000 Baht

* 57 y o woman needed transport to the hospital 200 Baht

* 27 y o man, no medical insurace, with injuries from motorcycle accident - broken legs and ruptured intestine. We paid half the hospital cost of 60,000 - 30,000 Baht

* 29 y o man, schitzophrenic, round trip transportation to hospital 120 Baht

* ? age man from Burma, died from liver cancer, no family and no money for funeral. Our Hospital Fund paid for the cremation, very important in Thai culture. 1,500 Baht.

* 4 y o boy gets glasses for special rate. 800 Baht.

Without this fund these patients could not get the medical help they need. Could YOU be a part of it? We need your help, and it is rewarding to see the results!

We need 60,000 to 80,000 Baht every 6 months. (1,000 Baht = appx. $30) i.e. $1,800 to $2,400.

Thank you for your support, and pics coming soon, when someone can help me post 'em!

Dogs before and after being treated.

Two other dogs in a little Soi (street) that we’ve been working with, a white-and-black one and a black one, were starving to death, and with such bad mange that they had no hair. The little black one had ugly growths covering her head. We gave them mange treatment immediately, and food, and they improved SO fast, as you see here, after 10 days to 2 weeks !!! (So sorry, the 'after' shot is posted before! I need blogger help!!)

A lovely family in the Soi take care with the support of All for Villages.