轉寄︰ Watch Riders for Health work on Al Jazeera. (Riders News - August 2012)

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主題︰ Watch Riders for Health work on Al Jazeera. (Riders News - August 2012)

Riders for Health is an award-winning social enterprise working to make sure all health workers in Africa have access to reliable transportation so they can reach the most isolated people with regular and predictable health care. August 2012 Headline Quicklinks ‘His visits give me the strength to stay alive’ Day of Stars raises $36,000 Your support helps us get more health workers on the road Become a Riders for Health hero  ‘His visits give me the strength to stay alive’ Riders for Health’s lifesaving work in Lesotho has been featured on international news network, Al Jazeera. Many people in Lesotho live in isolated villages in the mountains. This means that without reliable transport it is almost impossible for health workers to reach their patients. In a country where an estimated one-in-four people are living with HIV, this inability to reach people who need care has a huge impact on the health of the population. In this news story, Al Jazeera correspondent, Haru Mutasa, visited Alphonse Monokoa, an AIDS counsellor, and saw how his bike was helping him to reach patients a long way from the nearest clinic. Manthabiseng Lenka, one of Alphonse’s patients, said that the weekly visits were very important, ‘It is not easy living with HIV. His visits give me the strength to stay alive’. Click here to watch the story that was first broadcast on Al Jazeera English on Sunday 5th August.  Day of Stars raises $36,000 Riders for Health’s annual Day of Stars on the 26th of July raised an amazing $36,000. The event, which is held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in California before the Red Bull US MotoGP, is hosted by grand prix legend and Riders co-founder, Randy Mamola. Since it began in 2006 this day-long event has brought together Riders supporters, MotoGP stars and motorcycle enthusiasts from across the USA to support our work in Africa. Highlights of the day included a pit-lane and paddock tour led by Randy, with the chance to meet the current crop of MotoGP stars. Randy de Puniet, Michele Pirro, and James Ellison all made appearances, while Nicky Hayden and Ben Spies took group photos with fans. The day concluded with a record number of fans attending an amazing live auction of MotoGP memorabilia. Several MotoGP riders came out to greet the crowd and to autograph unique memorabilia. We would like to thank everyone at MotoGP and Mazda Raceway, the MotorGP riders past and present who attended, and all the volunteers who made the event a success. Support from motorcyclists in the USA and all over the world helps Riders for Health continue its lifesaving work by helping us get more health workers on the road in Africa. Each year motorcycling events across the world help us to provide access to health care to millions of people in Africa.  Your support helps us get more health workers on the road Riders for Health have produced a series of reports which show the impact we have made in the past year. These reports are an opportunity to see the real difference reliable transport has made to the lives of many people living in Africa. In each of our country programmes we have put in place a monitoring and evaluation officer whose role is to gather information so that we are able to measure the impact of our work. We believe that it is important to reflect on our work not only to find new ways of improvement but also to share our impact with our supporters. Thanks to our M&E team we know that with your support we have doubled the time outreach health workers spend in their communities. Our sample transport programme has cut the average turnaround times for test results in half. Outreach health workers can deliver nearly 3,500 extra health education meetings a month thanks to having available transport. To find out more about how your support has transformed the lives of many people in Africa why not read our new impact reports?  Become a Riders for Health hero Take part in our summer competition and you could win a pair of exclusive paddock passes for next year’s British MotoGP at Silverstone as well as VIP tickets to Day of Champions. All you need to do is raise as much money as you can for Riders’ new appeal by 9th September. There will also be prizes for people who send in photos of their fundraising activities. You could even feature in the newspaper! Whether you take part in a sponsored run, host a bake sale or simply put a collection tin in the office, it will all make a huge difference. What’s more, every donation made to Riders will be matched, pound for pound, by the UK Government so there really has never been a better time to support Riders for Health. For help with your fundraising, email Elizabeth at edunn@riders.org or call 01604 889591. And don’t forget to send us photos of your fundraising activities.

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