Home safely and THANK YOU!

After our 2 week trip we are all grateful to be home safely...

We would like to thank the people who conceptualized and funded the trip.  It really was an interesting and very rewarding experience!

To everyone at all the institutions and organizations we visited, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your time and effort to make us feel at home and help us understand the situations and environments to help us to improve the health of South Africans in the future.  Hope we will meet again and work together in times ahead.

Thanks to the
NICD and Lucille Blumberg
NIOH and David Rees
Sasol and Dries Burger
Wits Shool of Public Health and Shan Naidoo
Wits Centre for Health Policy and Jane Goudge
Wits Rural Facility and Thembi and Julia Moorman
Bush Buck Ridge subdistrict and Phyllis Marule
Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) and Richard Cooke
Agincourt and Ryan Wagner
Tintswalo Hospital and the various staff members we interacted with
Gottenburg and Hluvukani Clinics
Pretoria Veterinary School and Greg Simpson
RADAR and Realise
Community care workers
The people of the BBR community
All the other people who we interacted with and helped us along the way.

A very special thank you to Dr. Neil Cameorn who with his knowledge, leadership, contacts and relaxed fatherly behavior and questions made the trip the success that it has been.

Thank you to Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and Stellenbosch University Rural Medical Education Partnership Initiative (SURMEPI) for funding us to go on the fieldtrip.

http://www.mepinetwork.org/

http://surmepi.sun.ac.za/ (website under construction)