Bringing Massage Therapy to Africa
Teaching Massage Therapy to Visually Impaired Youth and Women of Kenya, Africa.
Find out how you can help The African Touch Education Fund Society's goal to reduce poverty, empower youth, women, and disabled persons in Kenya, Africa.
A Canadian Massage Therapist Brings Massage to Africa
Can one person make a difference? I think it all comes down to the vision and persistence of one passionate and caring person who wants to do something helpful for someone else.
I discovered the work and humanitarian efforts of one such person, Yvonne Poulin, a Canadian Registered Massage Therapist from Victoria, British Columbia who is the Chief Executive Officer of the non-profit society, The African Touch Education Fund Society .
Despite the 9,000 miles between Victoria, British Columbia and Nairobi, Kenya, The African Touch Education Fund Society is going to provide formal education and vocational training for graduates to become self-employed in the occupation of therapeutic massage. Candidates for the project will be selected from the blind community and from residential slums. The first project will be in Nairobi, in the residential slum of Kibera, one of Africa's largest slums.
Yvonne has a mission to share her experience and expertise as a massage therapist and former instructor of the West Coast College of Massage Therapy in Victoria, B.C. Yvonne proposes to teach a 500-hour therapeutic massage program that will include topics such as massage theory and practice, health sciences, supervised clinic practicum, business skills, HIV/Aids and first aid modules, and community outreach.
Graduates of the Massage Academy Project will be assisted in setting up their own businesses aimed at tourists, expatriates from Nairobi 's multicultural community, as well as work in foreign aid HIV/Aids treatment centers.
If the work of Yvonne and The African Touch interests you, here is how you can make a difference:
Visit the The African Touch website. Write or make a donation to: The African Touch Education Fund Society, Department #26, Box 4276, Victoria, British Columbia, V8X 3X8, CANADA
© Copyright, Sylvia Carlson, 2006. Reproduction without permission prohibited.
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