In perhaps her most comprehensive interview yet, Amy addresses the current healthcare system in the Lake Tanganyika Basin and the rationale for the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic’s current and urgent work around the lake. Take a look at Propeller TV’s “The Flipside 5” episode featuring the LTFHC!
This #GivingTuesday, support health in the Lake Tanganyika Basin
2013 has been a significant year for the LTFHC as we continue to provide much-needed, on the ground programs in one of the most complex and geopolitically important places in the world. From expanding our High Frequency radio communications network and introducing the region’s first Electronic Medical Records system, to publishing white papers sharing key issues and specific opportunities with the global community, the LTFHC continues to serve the communities around Lake Tanganyika in creative and locally relevant ways.
Our ability to have a substantial impact on the lives of the people who live in the Lake Tanganyika Basin is only possible with the support of people like you.
We hope to be able to count on you to make a gift today!
For more on our accomplishments in 2013 and exciting plans for 2014, please see this note from Amy.
LTFHC to Publish “From Curse to Cure”
We are thrilled to share with you a preview of some very important work we have been engaged in for the past 18 months – our scholarship on oil and gas in the Lake Tanganyika basin and Africa’s Great Lakes region in general. With our eyes and ears on the ground over these past years, we quickly came to understand that these newly discovered and massive petroleum deposits would play a central role in the region, and in fact for the DR Congo as a whole, with respect to peace and security, development and human well-being, environment and fresh water issues, to name a few.
Please find one of our executive summaries focusing on the trans-boundary issues and Exploration & Production in the Great Lakes region. Additionally, we look at the issue through a variety of lenses including: Health and Civil Society, Security, Environment, and Corporate Partners.
Our goal in publishing this paper is to work with all appropriate stakeholders to bring transparency, good governance, local content, and dialogue about this crucial issue that heretofore has not been widely discussed in the public space. Please contact us if you’d like to learn more.
LTFHC receives Film of the Year award
LTFHC’s short film highlighting our 2011 Women’s Reproductive Health Outreach was recently named the Film of the Year at the TV/E Global Sustainability Awards in London on October 10, 2013. This outreach was the first of its kind in the Lake Tanganyika basin, bringing Congolese and Tanzanian fistula patients and healthcare providers together for surgical repair and counseling. We are honored to be recognized for our work!
Watch the TV/E Awards and Awards Ceremony and Dr. Amy Lehman’s acceptance speech at 33:10.
LTFHC Saves Your Ass? — feature in Outside Magazine
Amy speaks to Outside Magazine about the more dangerous aspects of the LTFHC’s work, including her “gnarliest rescue”. Read more at Outside Magazine’s website!
Amy speaks at iPAD Oil and Gas Forum in the DRC this week
LTFHC Founder and CEO Dr. Amy Lehman is in Kinshasa, DRC this week to speak at the iPAD (Infrastructure Partners for African Development) Oil and Gas Forum. Industry leaders from across the globe are gathering to discuss the potential of the oil and gas industry to positively effect the continent. Stay tuned for a video of Amy’s presentation, “A Light Footprint in a Transboundary Context”!
Amy’s story featured in the Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph recently interviewed LTFHC founder Amy Lehman and recounts how she became so passionate about Lake Tanganyika, her vision for a floating hospital, and a touching story of emotional healing for women in the basin. Please read and share Amy’s story with your networks!
Amy speaks on BBC Newsday Radio Program
Amy was delighted to be a guest on Newsday, a program of BBC World Service, this morning. Listen here, then please share to help spread the word about the LTFHC’s work!
Vision of a floating clinic on Africa’s largest lake: Newsday by BBC World Service Radio
Dr. Amy Lehman LIVE! on BBC World News
We are delighted to share a recent interview of LTFHC founder, Dr. Amy Lehman, on the BBC World News program, Global with Jon Sopel. During this LIVE! interview, Amy recounts what inspired her to establish the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic and how the LTFHC is already implementing programs affecting millions at the last mile of healthcare delivery in the basin. Amy also describes how the LTFHC is accelerating efforts to establish a floating medical and broader research facility.
We hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch the interview and share it with your networks.
Radio Surveillance on Lake T
The LTFHC crew!
Our team just spent several days on a DRC surveillance trip for our radio network expansion project. Why are we doing this?
Due to the extreme remoteness of the basin health centers, harsh terrain and distances between locations, communication options are limited. The lack of reliable
In order to pilot a communications network, the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic (LTFHC) elected to make use of High Frequency (HF) Long Wave Radios, currently the only practical and affordable way to overcome the current communications gap. In March 2012, the LTFHC installed HF radios at eight health centers in Moba, DRC.
Our “home” while doing surveillance in remote communities along Lake Tanganyika
Building upon a successful pilot, the LTFHC will install HF radios, antennas and solar power systems at several other remote health clinics on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and also train local health care workers on how to operate the radios. In addition to bridging the communications gap between health centers and across international borders, this expansion will provide a solution for obtaining epidemiologic data by using Tethr, a worldwide mobile network in a box. Stay tuned for more updates!
