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Help Ethiopia.
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Save Lives from
Spinal Tuberculosis,
Poverty In Ethiopia.

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Amazing Story.

Once again, please
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Rick Hodes in his
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helping children with
spinal tuberculosis.

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When I got the invitation, I knew I wanted to go to the talk. I wanted to go, and I wanted to give.

It was about a doctor who's spent the past 20 years in Ethiopia. It was supposed to be for a year. He stayed, treating illnesses most of us have never heard of, including tuberculosis of the spine - where the spine ends up looking like a pyramid, before it folds completely, paralyzing the person. It is treatable.

The person, Dr Rick Hodes, is an amazing man with an amazing story. It gives me hope about what we humans can do when we live the right way - with love and caring. Among other things, to get the needed medical help (only available outside Ethiopia) for some of the kids he treats, he's adopted 5 children. That way they're covered by his (American) medical insurance. He does all he can - including that he shares his home with 17 of the children. When one left (to study in the States), he felt so bad about the one-half mattress that was available, that he couldn't rest easy until the kids could agree on whom to welcome into the house.

Why am I writing? First, I wanted to share his story. Second, if you can afford it, I would love it if you gave. It would matter enormously to Rick Hodes and the children he cares for.

Here is his site: http://rickhodes.org/

Here is a direct link to donate.

That's another interesting thing about both Rick Hodes and the organization that has funded him. He's a Jewish man who has somehow found his place in Ethiopia, and he's funded by a Jewish organization that gives anywhere where there is urgent need - including for disaster relief in Pakistan. So among Rick's many hats, he's the medical director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. (By the way, his clinic - entirely non-sectarian - is right beside the Mother Theresa mission.)

How desperate is the need in Ethiopia? There are 2000 doctors for 80 million people. One doctor for 40,000 people. As for the people Rick Hodes treats - there is no one else. The illnesses he treats don't grip the headlines, like aids and malaria. I had never heard of spinal tuberculosis - and had certainly never seen pictures of backs deformed by the illness, backs that can be straightened by surgery (while the tuberculosis is treated by drugs).

How much goes for direct medical care? 100 per cent. Every cent. And Rick Hodes is an expert at stretching each dollar.

There is a chemotherapy treatment that ups the survival rate from 15% to 60%. The cost: $1400.

To read more about this remarkable man:

Here is an introduction to him -
http://rickhodes.org/about/

Here is a book about his mission -
This is a Soul: from Sickness to Healing in Africa

And again, here is a direct link to donate.

And yes, I did buy the book. And yes, I did donate.

By the way, maybe one last thing about Rick. He's a CNN hero - one of his children wrote in about all he did.

Also, if you know anyone who might be interested, please send them to this page, or to any of the links above.

And now, until next time, all the very best,

Elsa
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October 11, 2010

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