HISTORY
How MED25 Began
MED25 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 a non-profit aimed at improving the lives of those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
In 2009, MED25 International expanded its mission to provide health care to 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.
One Community At A Time
Having completed a clinic, nursery school, vocational training center, and orphanage that is successfully being operated by the local community in Ghana, MED25 International now focuses on providing health services in another community, Mbita, Kenya. This follows MED25 International’s strategy of focusing on one community at a time.
