Make a Donation
St. Albert’s Mission Hospital urgently needs donations to purchase medical supplies for the hospital; support the home-based care program; keep orphans in school, which involves paying their school fees and buying uniforms, shoes and books; and to purify water from the new reservoir. (Note: the dam, reservoir, holding tank and water line to the hospital were completed earlier this year. An update on this project will be provided on this Web site shortly.)
Please send a check made out to “St. Albert’s Mission Hospital.”
You can send your donation directly to:
Elizabeth Tarira, MD
St. Albert's Mission Hospital
Private Bag 9047
Centenary
Zimbabwe
First-class postage from the U.S.A. to Zimbabwe is $.84 for the first ounce.
Or, people in the U.S.A. can mail checks—again made out to St. Albert’s Mission Hospital—to me, Darrell Ward, the Web site sponsor, and I will send them to Dr. Tarira.
If you prefer this alternative, please mail your check to:
Darrell E. Ward
688 Jonsol Ct.
Gahanna, OH 43230
Donations can also be wired to Dr. Tarira. Please send me an email for more information.
Email address: ward@stalbertsmissionhospital.org
Darrell E. Ward--who am I?
I am associate director of cancer and public health communications at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. I am a medical and science writer who interprets the complexities of medical science for the public. I write mainly about cancer and HIV and AIDS. My books include Reporting on Cancer: a guide for journalists (published by OSU’s Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, 1994) and The AmFAR AIDS Handbook: the complete guide to understanding HIV and AIDS (W.W. Norton, 1999). A French translation of this book, Comprendre le VIH/SIDA (Nouveaux Horizons, 2002) was distributed in francophone Africa by the U.S. State Department’s Africa Regional Service. I am currently writing a book to help nurses, reporters, secondary school teachers and others in developing countries understand HIV and AIDS, with an initial focus on African countries. This book will be published by Ohio University Press.
In 2000, I visited St. Albert’s Mission Hospital while in southern Africa on a Fulbright grant doing research for a book about Africans fighting the AIDS epidemic (http://www.cies.org/stories/s_dward.htm). I returned to St. Albert’s again briefly in 2001. During those visits, I got to know Elizabeth Tarira and Neela Naha and watched them work. I accompanied Dr. Tarira and the home-based care team on home visits. I came to greatly admire the work and dedication of many Africans who are fighting the AIDS epidemic in southern Africa. But I hold a special place for the women physicians of St. Albert’s, along with their nurses and staff. Their work with the sick and injured in this rural area of Zimbabwe is extraordinary.
I have given talks at Ohio State University, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, the St. Louis Ethical Society and elsewhere to raise donations for St. Albert’s. When the need arose to build the dam, my wife, Barbara and I felt that a Web site for the mission hospital, using photographs taken during my Fulbright trip, might greatly aid Dr. Tarira’s fund-raising efforts.
