CPG in the News
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Recycling e-waste will help school fund Kenyan project
Wednesday November 5, 2008
Karen Kawawada
Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School is trying to raise $1,000 to buy an incinerator for a clinic in the village of Matangwe by putting on drives to recycle electronic equipment.
Couple honoured for projects in Kenya
Sunday April 5, 2008
RECORD STAFF
Sylvia and Stephen Scott will be honoured tonight at the annual mayor's dinner.
Fundraiser helps buy medicines for Kenyan clinic
Friday September 14, 2007
ANNE KELLY
Three Kitchener doctors and a nurse practitioner are raising funds for medications they'll use during an upcoming stint at a rural Kenyan clinic.
Couple overwhelmed by $16,000 in donations for Matangwe clinic
Tuesday March 29, 2005
ANNE KELLY
Africa series was useful (Helen Darby; letter to editor) A medical clinic in western Kenya, founded by a Waterloo couple, has received more than $16,000 in donations since it was profiled in a Record series one month ago.
A clinic in Kenya
Tuesday March 29, 2005
ANNE KELLY
Local volunteers have built a caring refuge in a land ravaged by AIDS.
The search for local news goes beyond our borders
Tuesday March 29, 2005
LYNN HADDRALL
Health reporter Anne Kelly and photographer David Bebee travelled to Matangwe, Africa, to report on how Waterloo Region volunteers are helping to combat the devastation that HIV and AIDS have wrought on the remote Kenyan community.
Help for Matangwe
Tuesday March 29, 2005
ANNE KELLY
Challenges are great for local volunteers at clinic in Kenya.
Caption Only: In Perspective Matangwe Moments
Tuesday March 29, 2005
A series of photographs of Village Life in Matangwe.
Empowerment of women seen as key to halting spread of AIDS
Tuesday March 29, 2005
ANNE KELLY
A look at the AIDS situation in Africa, and the need to empower women in order to stop the spread.
African clinic seeks dignity for the dead
Tuesday March 29, 2005
ANNE KELLY
Volunteers plan to build a Mortuary in the Matangwe community to give loved ones a proper good-bye.
Local couple who started clinic return each year to sustain it
Tuesday March 29, 2005
ANNE KELLY
Stephen and Sylvia Scott of Waterloo have been the driving force behind an ambitious community health and development project serving the remote area of western Kenya where they grew up.
Candle sales will aid African children
Tuesday March 29, 2005
RECORD STAFF
A Kitchener couple are selling beeswax candles to help support AIDS orphans in the Matangwe area.
A journalist and photographer from the Record chronicled Steven and Sylvia Scott and a team of volunteers' Summer 2004 visit to Matangwe for two weeks. Courtesy of The Record, follow the links below to see and read about their experiences.
Lewis applauds clinic's 'great accomplishment'
Friday September 24, 2004
ANNE KELLY
Stephen Lewis sees hope: While the AIDS pandemic still ravages Africa, Stephen Lewis says he sees glimmers of hope in the beleaguered continent.
AIDS awareness thrust of talk
Thursday September 23, 2004
ANNE KELLY
Lessons on AIDS: A free meal, frank talk in their Luo dialect, even a condom demonstration with a wooden penis, drew community leaders to the first in a series of AIDS awareness sessions at the Matangwe Community Health Centre this summer.
In a sick land, a boy is a man
Wednesday September 22, 2004
ANNE KELLY
The future for orphans: A look into the lives and futures of orphans. AIDS, polygamy push their numbers higher.
Volunteers offer lifeline to Kenyans
Tuesday September 21, 2004
ANNE KELLY
What volunteers can do: Stories of how volunteers have helped out in Matangwe, and what future volunteers can do.