By Teresa Rugg | Executive Director
Dear Friends,
Once a week, I am so fortunate to Skype with the Nakuru Kenya photovoice facilitator, Alice Opiyo. We usually start out our calls talking about our families, as we both can see the action taking place in our respected livingrooms! Her 9-year old son Essence often talks with my 13-year old son Casey, while our two crazy dogs show-off their playing skills in the background! These weekly conversations about the logistics of the program have been very helpful to the TB Photovoice team as Alice prepares to lead the first photovoice session in the next few weeks. There isn't much to report during this prep time since we are all waiting for the final pieces to be put into action. Alice has methodically communicated with the participants and they are all looking forward to the big day. I will send an update to you when this first meeting takes place.
On other fronts, TB Photovoice has been invited to share our successes at the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health this coming December in Cape Town, South Africa. This would be a wonderful opportunity for us to showcase our US based TB Voices Project and share about our current Nakuru, Kenya photovoice project. However, we are realistic that to send the necessary TB Photovoice staff and Kenyan partners, the cost is simply beyond our reach. Finding funding to attend such conferences is very challenging. We believe we have a lot to share with others working with those impacted by TB around the world and we love listening to our partners in TB.
Alice, Eva and I would love the opportunity to represent TB Photovoice and expand our reach! Join us as we do our best to shine in South Africa! We need to raise $8,000 by the end of September to make this opportunity a reality. But time is really, really, really short! If you have connections or organizations that could help us in this effort, please let us know!
Thank you all for your tremendous support!
In partnership,
Teresa Rugg
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