Jan 4, 2011
Saving Lives with HealthPhone
HealthPhone is a pilot program aimed at sharing information in India on a wide variety of essential health topics.
The mobile phone has made connection possible in ways that were truly unthinkable until very recently. And it has stoked the desire of people to be connected. Take India for example: with a population of 1.17 billion and a wireless user base of about 700 million (Oct. 2010), and growing at the rate of 15 to 20 million a month. "Cell Phone penetration will reach 97% by 2014", according to a recent study. Soon, almost everybody will have one.
This is a game-changer for capacity-building and scaling up. It means we can reach the excluded, the illiterate, all those women, men and children who were only visible in tragic statistics. We can reach families and communities as a whole—something we've never really been able to do before.
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What will you do if we ask for help in east africa office( Ethiopia) We are in trouble by kidnney disease and we are dieing because of shortage og money for dialesis. we are crying loudly for help by founding an assocoation. please do somethig. Save us from painfull deseases. God bless you all.
Help from ethiopia that we save a lives before its late. save us from kidnney problem.