KAYO: Bringing medical help to Kurds in Turkey
Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by KSSO in Community
Source: Kurdish American Youth Organization
KAYO and Gift of Hope Overseas Request for donations to bring medical help to people in Kurdish region of Turkey
Members of the Kurdish American Youth Organization (KAYO) are proud to initiate a fundraiser in collaboration with Gift of Hope Overseas, also a nonprofit organization founded by graduate students at VCU-Medical College of Virginia. In a series of relief efforts, the students have managed to deliver much-needed medications and have sent volunteers to Dogubeyazit, a city in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey. The children and women of the area suffer many health-related complications due to the lack of immediate medical attention.
In 2008, well over $200,000 worth of requested medications were delivered and distributed to the people in the region. Furthermore, a sonogram machine was purchased enabling the early detection of prenatal complications and allowing doctors to potentially save many lives. The delivery of the machine is pending upon the purchase of additional necessary laboratory equipment.
Now KAYO members plan to work together and with their communities to help raise funds to purchase mobile “lab in a suitcase” medical supplies and equipment. These mobile labs will then be sent to physicians and nurses in the Kurdish city of Dogubeyazit and its environs to enable them to conduct routine medical examinations onsite in the most rural areas. There is some urgency as many of the people in the region are in dire need of medical attention especially before the cold seasons approach.
KAYO hopes to raise the necessary funds for this cause in the next four weeks to help purchase and deliver mobile labs to Dogubeyazit.
We, the Kurdish American Youth, ask for your help in the form of donations and thank you in advance for your generosity.
To make donations via PayPal, please visit the KAYO website at the following address:
http://kurdyouth.org/articles/a0051.htm
Alternatively you make cheques payable “Kurdish American Youth Organization” at the following address:
KAYO (Lab in a suitcase)
1413 Commerce Drive
Plano, TX 75093
Nice, always like to see youth being inlvovled in humanitarian work. Unselfish stuff.