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Million dollar donation to set up probiotic yogurt kitchens for African HIV/AIDS victims
The Link’s Africa correspondent Awa Dlodlo tells us about a University of Western Ontario programme that provides disease-fighting probiotic yogurt to people living with HIV/AIDS in East Africa. The Western Heads East programme, which was launched in 2003 by a group of Western students, faculty and staff, aims to teach East African mothers - affectionately called "Yogurt Mamas" - to produce potentially life-saving probiotic yogurt. Awa spoke to Marianne Larsen, who has donated $1.06 million to the programme, about why she chose to support the project and how the money will be used.
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