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AVG Hand-Delivers Humanitarian Aid Donation to Kenya
Czech Republic – August 19, 2008 - The Healthcare Center and Maternity Hospital in Itibo is a humanitarian project run by ADRA Czech Republic since 2006. The center provides local people with a wide range of medical services from simple medical treatments to surgery. It is funded from the public resources and donations.
At the beginning of June 2008 Tomáš Vejmelka, AVG Reseller Account Manager, visited the Itibo Healthcare Center to hand-deliver a donation from AVG Technologies – 500 much-needed pens for the local primary school.
The pens were delivered to the Matutu school, an educational center near Itibo, by local ADRA project leader Aleš Bárta. Stationery and writing materials are what Kenyan schoolchildren miss the most. The donation was provided by AVG Technologies s.r.o. through the company’s Kenyan Distributor, Interactive Technology Limited of Nairobi, which took care of the manufacturing.
Through the Healthcare Center in Itibo, ADRA also provides a humanitarian aid to the refugee camp in Ekerenyo, which was established by Kenyan government during the post-election violence in January 2008. Most of the temporary inhabitants were driven out of their homes and their houses were burnt down. Currently about 2000 people live in the camp, 600 of whom are children, mainly orphans.
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For more information about the project and to make a donation, please go to http://kena.websnadno.cz
ADRA Contact: Aleš Bárta, Itibo; barta.ales@seznam.cz
AVG Contact: Tomas Vejmelka, Nairobi; tomas.vejmelka@avg.com