20 Oktober 2009
2008-11-1 Angola: The Menongue outreach
In November 2008 DFL had the privilege to go to Angola for the 4th outreach. One of the donors who had made this trip possible, requested the main medical focus to be on eye surgery - more specifically cataract lens replacements....[more]
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July 9, 2008
Click here to see some photos showing the progress on the construction of the clinic up until 9 July 2008. ...[more]
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May 12, 2008
The Dutch team is back in Zavora for the second phase (in total 4) of the construction of the medical clinic in Mozambique. Gerrit-Jan, a Dutch builder, is sweating it out with 3 other volunteers . The aim is to finish the walls and start with the roofing before they return to the Netherlands on 14 June. In addition, another container filled with building material has been donated towards the clinic. Its due for arrival in Durban in early June. Thank you for all those who made this possible.
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May 1, 2008
1) We are planning to host a medical student group from a Cape Town universities in Zavora during June/July. They offered to help with the construction.
2) A team from a Gauteng mission station aim to visit the Zavora, Mozambique clinic during July
3) In September we plan another medical outreach with World Challenge in the poorer communities of South Africa
4) We are planning our next Angola medical outreach for November this year
5) The Dutch Building team plans to return to Zavora during August and October to finish the construction of our clinic
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April 15, 2008
After weeks of planning Mario Rocha, our Portuguese translator and myself left for Mozambique on 28 February. To assist us with the construction a Dutch team, lead by Dr Paul Zuidema and Gerrit-Jan Vierhuizen met us in Maputo. They also shipped a 20 ft container along that was filled with building tools and material donated by our many Dutch friends. ..[more]
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April 1, 2008
During September and October of 2007, Doctors For Life’s (DFL) ‘Aid to Africa’ division hosted a team from World Challenge Medical Missions. Together with Dr Eugene Smith (a specialist physician) and his wife and right hand Arlene, DFL held medical clinics in four of South Africa’s provinces at 7 different locations. More than a thousand patients received medical care while approximately 15,000 medicines ..[more]
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March 20 , 2008
A German journalist Aleta Sopha, sent news that they are almost ready to start constructing the mobile clinic unit that she has been doing fundraising for for the past few years. She recently arranged a beneficiary concert in Northern Germany. The clinic could fit on Aid to Africa's MAN all wheel drive truck. Thank you Aleta!
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February 1, 2008
Following the death of Danie du Preez, project leader of the construction of Aid to Africa's first clinic in Mozambique (Zavora), we are encouraged by the tremendous support we continue to receive. Developments include the donation of a 20ft container, filled with building materials and tools, that is on its way to Zavora. A construction team from the Netherlands will cast the first foundations in March this year. A special thanks to all the donors and those involved in putting this all together...[more]
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January 3, 2008
It is with sadness that we say goodbye to 'Oom' (uncle) Danie du Preez, the missionary who headed the Zavora mission station and our clinic in Mozambique. He passed away on the 3rd of January, at 10:40am. The last few days had been a physical struggle for him in hospital, as his kidneys failed and the cancer treatment started taking its toll. He leaves behind his wife Dina and their 4 children. To read the condolences sent from across the globe click here ...[more]
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January 1, 2008
We would like to thank our Dutch friend Hessel van der Sluis, who recently completed the new building model, called a Marquette in Dutch, of the new clinic in Zavora, Mozambique. Hessel and his wife, Ity, recently visited DFL in South Africa from where they visited the clinic in Zavora.
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November 26, 2007
During the past few months DFL struggled to get the funds, that were donated towards the Zavora clinic in Mozambique, transferred to our Mozambique account. In the past week however, the SA reserve bank finally approved the transfer. ...[more]
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June 03, 2007
As we recently started construction work of our first clinic in Zavora,
Mozambique we would like to keep you updated. ...[more]
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March 15, 2007
Aid to Africa, the medical outreach initiative of Doctors For Life International, was recently invited to address a group of young people (mostly university and high school students) at the launch of Jabulane Alive Ministries (JAM) ...[more]
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| As you might know, DFL is currently experiencing some problems with the Department of Health surrounding the registration of our medical work in Zavora, in Mozambique. ...[more] |
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January 17, 2006
By Matthias Reuter, Mercy Air Heli-Ops
"The Global Positioning System in the instrument panel of the helicopter is confirming what I am seeing through the tropical humid and hot air in the distance. The old Portuguese built lighthouse near Zavora on the eastern shore of southern Mozambique is coming into sight. “Our camp is only 4 kilometers along the sand road from the lighthouse”, I remember Johan Claassen from Doctors for life describing to me on the phone some weeks earlier. There were coconut and palm trees every where! ...[more] |
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November 25, 2005
The continuation of the Zavora Clinic is vital and we thank all those who volunteered this year. During November another Dutch team (construction and medical) are continuing the work and in December, medical students from MSCF, together with other Health professionals, will stay untill the end of the year. If you would like to assist us in 2006, please contact us ASAP at a2a@dfl.org.za
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November 24, 2005
Doctors For Life International's team, together with a medical group from Times Square Church in New York, returned safely after a 3 week outreach to Cuito Cunevale, Angola...[more] |
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October 31, 2005
During October another medical team continued the work at DFL's clinic in Mozambique, Zavora. You too can join an outreach to help these needy people. Find out more about this wonderful work by reading their report ...[more] |
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September 19, 2005
Doctors For Life International, together with a medical group from Times Square Church, NY, will be going back to the war torn areas of Angola between 19 September and 13 October. Watch this space for an update |
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September 3, 2005
Between 22 and 27 August 2005, Aid to Africa (A2A), the mobile clinic initiative from Doctors For Life International (DFL) went on another medical outreach. We joined hands with retired Dr. Gene Smith (MD) and his wife Arlene, who flew all the way from the USA to help these people. ...[more] |
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July 12, 2005
Its people are warm and friendly despite the fact that they live in a crippled, war-ravaged country. Aid to Africa pulled its resources together and assembled a team of ten to go into one of the most war-torn areas of Angola, the Cuando Cubango province ...[more] |
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April 25, 2005
Doctors For Life (DFL) marked the observance of Africa Malaria Day by continues development of anti-malaria medicine. For this reason DFL are produced and bottled MALARLIFE capsules containing the extremely effective Artemisinin from the Artemisia Annua plant. We are please to contribute to World Malaria Day by making MALARLIFE affordable and available to 3d world countries. MALARLIFE sales benefit one of DFL's programmes, "Aid to Africa "; where MALARLIFE and many other medicines are freely distributed to the needy communities, during mobile medical outreaches to countries like, South Africa , Angola , Mozambique , Zambia ...[more] |
...more about Malarlife
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April 13, 2005
According to reports from the WHO, BBC and VOA, the marburg virus continues to spread in the northern parts of Angola. DFL started planning a outreach to the southern parts (Cuito Cunevale) approximately 3 months ago, before the outbreak publicly announced. Depending on the situation in Angola, the dates are still between 29 April -21 may 2005 ...[more] |
...latest updates on Marburg |
December 22, 2004
Between 5 and 16 December, a group of 8 medical students, 3 medical doctors, a lecturer from the University of Natal, and and other volunteers joined Doctors for Life on an outreach to Zavora , Mozambique ...[more] |
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November 19, 2004
Over the past few weeks, Doctors for Life continued to hold the clinic at Zavora , Mozambique . This was part of the groundwork in starting a permanent structures clinic at this site (see building plans). ...[more] |
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November 18, 2004
Helena, a volunteer from Germany, joined the first team to do Health Care work at the DFL clinic in Zavora, which started from September 2004 . She recently returned to South Africa and wrote the following about her experiences. ...[more] |
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Six medical team members from the USA, a dental assistant from Germany, Dr Albu van Eeden (CEO of DFL) and a combination of volunteers and translators made up the team of 12 people who all shared in the compassion to reach the needy communities and orphan centres in South Africa with medical care. ...[more] |
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October 12, 2004
A letter written by Mark Keiser, a trained medical assistant from the USA, volunteering at the first permanent clinic of Doctors For Life's program , Aid to Africa. ...[more] |
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