HISTORY
How MED25 Began
MED25 International, formerly known as New Seed International, was started in 2006 by Rebecca Conte Okelo. While receiving her nursing degree at Seattle University, Rebecca traveled to Ghana, West Africa to follow her passion of working with HIV patients in Africa. After realizing the devastation of AIDS in this community, she was compelled to act. She returned home and founded New Seed International in 2006, a non-profit aimed at improving the lives of those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
After completing the HIV/AIDS Care Center in Ghana, MED25 expanded its mission to providing health care for all individuals. While we continue to have a major concern for adequate treatment of HIV patients and children orphaned by HIV, we realized care for these patients is best done in the context of comprehensive healthcare. Based on the needs of the communities we served, we expanded outside of HIV to fulfill a greater purpose of providing all individuals with access to affordable health care—a basic human right.
Work in Ghana
In the summer of 2006, Executive Director Rebecca Conte Okelo traveled to the West African country of Ghana to volunteer as a nursing assistant. She was devastated by the conditions of HIV/AIDS patients in the area, and wanted to do something to help. Through her work at the local hospital she met an organization called New Seed, a non-governmental organization in Ho, Ghana working on improving the lives of those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
After returning to the US, Rebecca started her own non-profit organization with the help and resounding support of her friends, family and other medical professionals as her guides. Teaming with another US-based nonprofit organization, plans were created and fundraising began for an HIV Care Center with the goal of providing better care of HIV/AIDS patients in the community of Ho.
By December 2008, the New Seed International Care Center was successfully completed with a clinic, nursery school, vocational training center, and orphanage open to serve the community. New Seed Ghana continues to operate the center today.
