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Nurses for Africa bring health care to Zambia

July 25, 2011

Nurses for Africa bring health care to Zambia | garner, nurses, people – The Telegraph.

July 25, 2011 10:36 AM

ALTON – Three caring nurses plan to bring love, support and donations to the “poorest of the poor” in Zambia in September, while also feeding and attending to some of the Africans’ medical needs.

“We go to visit and treat medical issues; we provide care to people who want to get it,” said Valerie Garner, 38, of Greenfield, a registered nurse who made the trip last year. “We reach people who are not even on the ladder of help. They are the poorest of the poor. We provide health basics, but our most important aspect is our ‘touch.'” (more…)