The prospect of another newsletter allows us to take stock of the last few months; the highs, the lows, the little wins and, increasingly, omnipresent challenges of keeping a remote partnership fruitful, interesting and personal. And so to the evidence...

• The procurement of a laptop for MATA. Currently the project director, Msanyana Skhosana is sharing his with Alison. They are out of the office for a considerable amount of time on average and this extra resource will allow them to be more mobile and efficient.
• Development MATA's fundraising and communication abilities. They have produced a revised monthly newsletter, to be sent out to Home Based Care centres and other target groups and a new website should follow shortly.
• We have been analysing their entire patient data statistics (anonymous) for the preparation of MATA's 2010 Annual Report and as a basis for a review of their data quality.

3rd year German medicine student Sophie Hirsch will spend the month of August with MATA.
The 22 year old's 4 week internship will not only be a valuable personal experience but will allow The Comrads to get a new and improved insight into care management at the Home-Based Care level.
Sophie will start a blog shortly.


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Our friends from PEER PRESSURE are organizing a festival on Saturday the 26^th of June in Belgium. NGO The Comrads was asked to organize a big BBQ with all earnings going to our projects in South Africa.

The music will play for 25 hours on two stages ranging from Balkan to dub-step, hip-hop, funk and electronic music, all this in the beautiful Old Zoo of Ghent. We hope to see you in numbers there!!!

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