Re: Fw: AIDS and Coca-Cola in Kenya

[Guest guest]

Dear Njuguna and All,

Hello, and what a great idea! Anyone able and ready to lead the way on this

in Kenya, and elsewhere? Thanks so much for the suggestion! All best

wishes, Janet kaippg@...

[Guest guest]

Coca Cola describes its efforts at:

http://www.businessfightsaids.org/pdf/cocacola_africa_fact.pdf

Within Kenya, Coca Cola says they have

1) Produced the television commercial for the National AIDS Control

Council's Maisha Project, and donated radio airtime, billboards, and office

space for Maisha (means " life " in Swahili).

2) Sponsored the " Heart and Soul " health education soap opera on TVAfrica

in 30 countries.

3) Donated and transported three large storage containers converted into

Rural Health Centres for distribution of hiv/aids information.

4) Delivered 150,000 copies of the AIDS education book " Bloom or Doom: Your

Choice " to 28 school districts.

5) Produced the first 3 volumes of the comic book series " Nuru " ,

which " seeks to inspire quality relationships and positive sexual behavior. "

What has been the effectiveness of these initiatives?

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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[Guest guest]

Does any one know if there are similar efforts by Coca Cola to help spread

awareness in Ethiopia, Africa?

[Guest guest]

What has been the effectiveness of these initiatives?

That is the major question. Coca Cola talks of working in collaboration with

local organizations that work at grassroots level. This will certainly have

a major impact to their HIV/AIDS programme. I'm sorry I have not visited the

link yet. Does it mention some other local organizations it is implementing

the programme with? After corresponding with their East Africa office in

Nairobi I had the impression that something was fundamentally wrong with the

Coca Cola HIV/AIDS programme if at all there was one in existence.

Philip Ndeta

Director, Learning and Development Kenya (LDK)

learning@...

Re: Fw: AIDS and Coca-Cola in Kenya

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> Coca Cola describes its efforts at:

> http://www.businessfightsaids.org/pdf/cocacola_africa_fact.pdf

>

> Within Kenya, Coca Cola says they have

> 1) Produced the television commercial for the National AIDS Control

> Council's Maisha Project, and donated radio airtime, billboards, and

office

> space for Maisha (means " life " in Swahili).

> 2) Sponsored the " Heart and Soul " health education soap opera on TVAfrica

> in 30 countries.

> 3) Donated and transported three large storage containers converted into

> Rural Health Centres for distribution of hiv/aids information.

> 4) Delivered 150,000 copies of the AIDS education book " Bloom or Doom:

Your

> Choice " to 28 school districts.

> 5) Produced the first 3 volumes of the comic book series " Nuru " ,

> which " seeks to inspire quality relationships and positive sexual

behavior. "

>

> What has been the effectiveness of these initiatives?

>

>

> Boston, Massachusetts, USA

>

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[Guest guest]

Reading these postings especially the one by

which reflects what Coca Cola has

contributed sounds interesting and challenging at the

same.

Considering that Coca Cola did some efforts (though

too minimal) is something significant and MAY MEAN AN

ENTRY TO A greater INVOLVEMENT and eventually may

develop into a deeper, more meaningful participation

of a big private sector like Coca Cola. This may just

be the start of it, immersing them into the wider

development issues of HIV and AIDS, explaining to the

officials of how AIDS may impact into their business

in the near future should private companies remain

complacent about the issues.

Significant partnership with them may be done like

some community based NGOs or the health ministry

educating the company's rank and file including the

officials, eventually developing an AIDS in the

workplace initiative culminating into development of

policies within the workplace of Coca Cola.

Entry point to get their nod if they are not open

enough about HIV/AIDS is perhaps family planning or

the holistic approach to addressing reproductive

health and overring the existing health services of

the company.

I know this is easier said then done but there is no

harm in trying.

Nenet L. Ortega

Manila Philippines

[Guest guest]

I understand the Coca Cola has had minimal involvement with the Kenyan

Community. I have a message to relay concerning this. All the Organisation

in the world have a Social responsibility " Just as a large Company seeks to

conserve it's asset and conserve it's future survival by re-investing part

of it's profits, so it should seek to conserve and improve the social

environment in which it does business, in the hope that it will be able to

continue to do business in the future, preferably in a better environment

that it has at present "

Victor, Kisumu-Kenya

[Guest guest]

Dear All

I dont think cocacola is seriuos about this HIV/AIDS

programm.I have acousin here in kenya who was retired

late last year because he was HIV+ and cocacola at

some point even refused to pay his hospital bill at

Kenyatta hospital in Nairobi.

My question to them is how are they planning to assist

the spouses of their employees on medical if they can

not even help their staff?we dont want widow dressing

on AIDS issues .Which org .are they collaborating with

in kenya? I Only heard of cocacola planning to donate

containers to be used as mobile testing centres by CDC

..

I have written to cocacola Nairobi office several

times on our programmes at the community level on AIDS

but nobody has responded.cocacola should tell us what

they are doing and where and with who?

HEZEKIAH BUNDE NYARANGA

REACH-OUT GROUP

P.O BOX 425

KISUMU

KENYA.

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

Hope we are sharing all these constructive comments with Coca-cola

authorities to help them meditate on all these issues related to HIV/AIDS in

general and HIV/AIDS and staff.

We never know ! The subject might be put on the agenda of one of the nexr

Coca-cola Board meetings.

e

ActionAid Burundi

[Guest guest]

Hi Stan,

How are things with you. Caro told me that she met you

before you left. I have been a bit bussy. We were to

visit you with Caro over the Easter Holiday, but it

seems things have changes. I have been having some

problems at home, and told Caro to organize for

another day.

Sorry for this. Hoping to get in touch with you soon.

Regards

--- tuvakoklub2 <tuvakoklub2@...> wrote:

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[Guest guest]

Yes Victor,

It is called social capital.

Volunteer community workers are doing it all the time and any

business that avoids investment in social capital is doomed.

We have an example in Australia of Mc Houses funded

totally by the golden arches. They are houses adjoining medical

centres where children are provided with long term or acute crisis

medical care. These houses are available to the families of such

kids to live in next door to the hospital while their kids are in

patients. It is quite an amazing investment and many people who

benefit from being in close proximity to their sick children

testify to its value. All funded by the Big Mac. So it does happen

and credit where credit is due is good as is critique when the

effort falls short.

Geoffrey

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 Odongo, Victor wrote :

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[Guest guest]

A slight clarification = I merely shared what Coca Cola claims it has

done...I have no idea whether the corporation has really done all that.

JMH

>From: " Nenet L. Ortega, RMT, MA " <nenetgem@...>

>Reply-AIDS treatments

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>Subject: Re: Fw: AIDS and Coca-Cola in Kenya

>Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 07:41:02 -0700 (PDT)

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>Reading these postings especially the one by

> which reflects what Coca Cola has

>contributed sounds interesting and challenging at the

>same.....etc.

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