AMREF Canada
489 College Street
Suite 407
Toronto, Ontario
M6G 1A5
CANADA
Tel: +416-961-6981
Fax:+416-961-6984
Email: info@amrefcanada.org
http://canada.amref.org/
Director:Susanne Courtney
AMREF USA
4 West 43rd Street,
New York, NY 10036
Tel: +212-768-2440
Fax: +212 786 4230
Email: amrefusa@amrefusa.org
http://usa.amref.org/
Director: Lisa Meadowcroft
In 1957, Michael Wood, one of the three founding surgeons of AMREF consulted the famous Dr Albert Schweitzer at his Leprosy Mission Hospital in Lambarene, West Africa. How, he asked can we serve the 80% of rural Africans who live beyond the reach of urban medical facilities? "Use the tools of our time," was his answer. Aeroplanes and radios were the tools of that time and became the framework of AMREF.
In almost every case where we have intervened to solve community health problems we learnt that the community itself had the answer to many of its own problems.
AMREF Headquarters, Langata Road, P.O Box 27691 - 00506, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 20 6993000 Fax: +254 20 609518
