NIGERIA - Austin to Africa

NIGERIA - Austin to Africa, a program operating under the Rosy Health Care Foundation, came about as a means to connect pharmaceutical and medical supplies in the United States with African nations wrought with the AIDS epidemic. Started essentially under the sole leadership of Sunday "Sunny" Uzuh and his wife Rosy, the mission of the Rosy Health Care Foundation is founded on the principles of promoting prevention through access to education, training and ministry. Our vision is to facilitate a process that helps the elderly, frail and poor on a local and global level.

Uzuh's personal stake in attending to the most basic health needs of Nigerian residents stems from his role as a native son, who ventured to the United States where he instantly learned the pertinent relationship between a democratic system and egalitarian healthcare. It was upon that revelation, Uzuh was incited to begin the construction of a community health facility in Igbodo, Ika North East LGA - Delta State, Nigeria, his hometown, a project in full-fruition now. The facility will host a variety of services for residents of this region of Nigeria. Supported partially by the local government in Igbodo and mostly by the Rosy Health Care Foundation, this clinic will provide basic health provisions, an urgent matter even in such an oil-rich economy. But, a clinic is useless without supplies, medicines and other patient provisions as simple as bandages.

The AIDs crisis aside, Nigerian residents are lacking even the most basic first aid provisions. Nigeria's health situation existed in crisis for what have been too many years. But, what happens when aid is sent auspiciously to Nigeria? Often, funds or supplies are caught at illegal filters, corrupt agencies or stolen by those wanting to capitalize on their black market value. It is essential for any aid gathered for Nigerian residents are brought personally, through an unadulterated intermediary from the United States with a vision in mind.

Uzuh's intentions are tandem to the efforts he makes in Austin to provide low cost healthcare for the elderly, indigent and minorities caught in an ailing economy. Through the Rosy Health Care Foundation, he has started scholarships for people in the community interested in beginning careers as emergency medical trainees, CPR training stipends to encourage family members and friends of the ill to gain this sort of expertise and family health fairs aimed towards the Hispanic community in Austin, one of the least insured populations in Texas. His goal is to be the human link between needs in Nigeria, a country with immense potential to succeed and Austin's innumerable resources

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