Nyama Choma guide - Amref Health Africa in the USA

Host your own Nyama Choma and support Amref Health Africa in
creating a lasting health change in Africa!
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About Amref Health Africa
Amref Health Africa, the premier African-led health development organization,
provides training and health services to more than 30 countries on the continent.
With a focus on women and children, we manage a full range of medical and
public health programs, tackling the most critical health challenges in Africa:
maternal and child health, HIV & TB, malaria, clean water and sanitation
and surgical and clinical outreach.
Africa’s Health Crisis
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11% of world’s population
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24% of global disease burden
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Only 3% of the world’s health
workers
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Estimated 1 million additional
health workers needed to meet
the minimal threshold for
appropriate care
Amref Health Africa’s contribution to solving the crisis…
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Provided training for almost 500,000 health workers in
the last two years alone
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60+ million Africans are reached annually by
graduates of our training courses
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Trainees come from over 35 African countries
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Performed 60,000+ life-saving surgeries in remote
rural health centers, all the while, training local
doctors to do the same
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What is a Nyama Choma?
The Swahili phrase Nyama Choma translates as barbecued meat. But in
Kenya, it means a lot more than that: bringing communities together and
celebrating good times, whatever the occasion.
In July and August we are asking our supporters to host a Kenyan style barbecue
– a Nyama Choma – and make a difference in the lives of women, men and
children in Africa.
We want you to
host a Nyama
Choma and
contribute to a
lasting health
change in Africa!
We’ll provide the
recipes and
materials to make
your event a
success!
As a host, you provide the food and your guests can give a donation for their
meal. This means a simple barbecue can enable you and your friends to have a
direct impact on the health of communities across Africa.
Get the grill
out, and host a
Nyama Choma
Ask your
guests to give
a donation for
their meal
Help Amref
Health Africa
tackle critical
health
challenges in
Africa
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Recipe Ideas
Nyama Choma
Ingredients:
2 lbs of beef or spare ribs
2 cloves of minced garlic
Juice of 1 or 2 lemons (3-6
tbsp)
Directions:
Combine lemon juice, garlic, and spices in large
glass dish, mix well, and then add meat.
1 tsp curry powder
Coat the meat in the marinade and leave for at
least 1 hour.
½ tsp tumeric
Grill the meat until cooked all the way through.
½ tsp coriander
1 tsp paprika
salt & black pepper
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Peri Peri African Chicken
Ingredients:
4 tbsp of paprika
2 tbsp of hot chili powder
Juice of 6 lemons (18 tbsp)
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 ½ tsp of fresh ginger,
chopped
1 ½ tsp of salt
4 bone-in chicken breast
halves
Directions:
In a large bowl, stir together the paprika, chili powder, lemon
juice, garlic, ginger, and salt.
Rub chicken with the mixture, place in dish, and marinade for 3
hours.
Cook on BBQ for about 30 minutes, turning occasionally, until the
skin is slightly charred and juices run clear.
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Kachumbari Salad
Ingredients:
1 red or green chili
Handful of coriander leaves, finely chopped
2 small onions, thinly sliced
5 tomatoes, finely chopped
salt & black pepper
Directions:
Finely chop the tomatoes, onions,
chili, and coriander, and mix
together in a bowl.
Toss with lime juice and olive oil.
Season with salt and pepper to
taste.
Juice of 1 lime (2 tbsp)
3 tbsp of olive oil
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Tanzanian Tandoori Turkey Breast
Ingredients:
2 cups of plain yogurt
4 large cloves of garlic, roughly
chopped
2 tsp of ginger
2 tsp tandoori spice mix
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
½ tsp hot curry powder
1 tsp honey
2 tsp olive oil
Juice of ½ lemon (1 ½ tbsp)
1 tsp of salt
½ tsp of black pepper
3 lbs of skinless, boneless turkey
breasts
Directions:
Mix together all ingredients, except turkey, in a large bowl.
Add breasts to marinade and leave to marinate overnight or at least 6 hours.
When ready to cook, shake off excess marinade and place turkey on BBQ.
Grill for 10 minutes. Turn, and cook for an additional 8 minutes. Remove turkey
and leave for 15 minutes before serving.
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Halloumi & Vegetable Kebabs
Ingredients:
1 garlic clove, crushed
18 whole pitted black olives
6 tbsp of olive oil
14 ounces of halloumi cheese
3 large tomatoes
6 potatoes
2 zucchinis
Directions:
1 red onion
Chop the garlic, olives, and add olive oil to
form a marinade.
1 eggplant
6 kebab skewers
Cut potatoes in half and boil until tender.
Chop Halloumi cheese and the remaining
vegetables, and thread them onto skewers
with the potatoes.
Marinade for 2 hours and cook on the BBQ,
turning after two minutes on each side.
Feel free to always add your own American twist;
there’s always room on the grill for burgers and hot dogs!
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Games
Raffles
Get your friends to donate prizes and sell tickets,
or
Get a deck of cards and sell each card at $1-10. When you sell a card, tear the
card in half; the buyer gets one half and you keep the other. Put all the half
bought cards together and pick a winner.
Marinade Competition
Challenge your guests to see who can come with the tastiest marinade!
Guests pay to enter, and the winner gets all the glory!
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The Impact of Your Nyama Choma
Host your Nyama Choma this summer and support Amref Health Africa in:
bringing health care closer to vulnerable African communities,
training more health workers across Africa, and
saving and transforming lives.
For every $1 you give to Amref Health Africa in the USA ...
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90¢ go directly to fund our life-saving programs in Africa
6¢ are re-invested in fundraising to help Amref Health Africa reach even
more vulnerable African communities
4¢ are spent on governance, administration, and office support
Some examples of the impact your contribution can have on communities in
Africa:
$20
$50
$75
$100
Can provide a community midwife with two “mama kits,”
which contain supplies to ensure good prenatal care
and a safe labor and delivery.
Can stop 100,000 kids from going blind. $50 can
provide vitamin A supplements to 100,000 kids in the
Kibera Slums of Kenya, which prevent blindness.
Unfortunately, blindness is prevalent in children from
poor communities due to lack of a balanced diet.
Can prevent 30 people from catching malaria. This
money could cover the cost of buying and distributing 15
mosquito nets to a mother and child sharing a bed so
they are protected from mosquito bites.
Can keep 33 people with HIV/AIDS healthy. $3 is the
average cost of supporting one HIV positive patient with
special nutrition supplements for one year. The
supplements help keep people healthy and avoid
sickness that might become very serious or lifethreatening to an HIV positive person.
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$250
Can train a community midwife to save hundreds of
lives of women and newborns. Trained community
midwives can recognize and treat common illnesses,
know when to refer women to the hospital during
complicated labor, and understand what is necessary to
prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to child.
$500
Can equip two small health clinics with desperately
needed beds and medical kits to help mothers safely
deliver their babies.
$1500
$6,000
Can bring safe drinking water to a small community to
prevent devastating water-borne illnesses such as
cholera, typhoid, diarrhea and malaria. Safe drinking
water is more crucial than ever in light of the recent East
African drought.
Can help cover the cost of training a Clinical Officer in
South Sudan. In a country with a severe shortage of
doctors, Clinical Officers are trained to assume certain
aspects of the role of a physician - providing diagnosis
and treatment, conducting surgical procedures and
educating communities. They deliver a significant
percentage of urgently needed health care services in
this country.
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Our Approach
At Amref Health Africa,
the health of communities
is at the center of our
work. By focusing on
women and children’s
health, we believe we can
improve the health of the
entire community. The
building blocks of our
approach are in three key
areas: training community
and other levels of health
care workers; using
health information for
planning and program
creation; and
strengthening community
health systems by linking
them to formal health
facilities.
Our Work
Amref Health Africa manages a full range of medical and public health programs
focused on the most critical health issues facing the continent today: maternal
and child health, HIV, TB, malaria, clean water and sanitation, and clinical and
surgical outreach. In addition, we train health professionals of all levels, and
develop laboratory diagnostics programs - providing knowledge, training, and
specialized treatment to strengthen the ability of local organizations to deliver
quality health services.
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Our Partners
We believe that partnerships with like-minded organizations are essential to
conducting successful and sustainable programs. Amref Health Africa is an
active member of: Frontline Health Workers Coalition, Health Committee of the
World Economic Forum, Global Advisory Committee for the Call to Stop TB,
Global Health Workforce Alliance of the WHO, Health Workforce Advocacy
Initiative (HWAI) and partners with: USAID, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Barr Foundation and Starr International Foundation, among
others. Key corporate partners include Johnson & Johnson, Boeing and The
Allergan Foundation.
Our Achievements
In the last two years alone, Amref Health Africa has trained almost 500,000
health workers, who now reach close to 60 million people in Africa every year.
Amref Health Africa doctors have performed more than 45,000 emergency airlifts
and over 60,000 life-saving surgeries in remote rural health centers. We were
presented with the 1999 Conrad N. Hilton Prize for alleviating human suffering
and were recognized with the 2005 Gates Award for Global Health for
extraordinary achievement in improving health. In addition, for the ninth
consecutive year, Amref Health Africa in the USA has received Charity
Navigator’s highest, 4-star rating for fiscal responsibility.
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Report Back!
Tell us how your event went! Amref Health Africa sincerely appreciates the
efforts of our FUNraisers. We’d like to acknowledge your work by sharing your
successes with all our supporters. Your event may even be featured on our
website!
You can also update us on Facebook and Twitter at facebook.com/amrefusa and
twitter.com/amrefusa.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for Amref Health Africa,
please feel free to contact us.
Address:
Amref Health Africa in the USA
4 West 43rd Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10036
Tel: (212) 768 2440
[email protected]
Thank You!
Amref Health Africa in the USA would like to thank you, once again, for your
dedication and support of our mission to improve the health of people in Africa by
partnering with and empowering communities and strengthening health systems.
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