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MAN AND MACHINE: Dr Thiecouta Traore, founder of GKRT, with ‘Rose’, one of the newly-installed renal therapy machines in the new Port Alfred branch of the company Picture: ROB KNOWLES
DIALYSIS

Making therapy easier for kidney patients

Born in Dakar, the capital of West Africa’s Senegal, Thiecouta Traore was destined to take up an occupation in the medical field, as both his parents were doctors – his mother an anesthesiologist and father a gynaecologist. “They tried to…

  • Rob Knowles
ADVOCACY

A journey to inclusion

The Royal Port Alfred Golf Club hosted a fundraising event for Healing Horses on Monday evening to raise awareness and funds for its work in improving the lives of differently-abled people, old and young. The RPAGC car park was full as…

  • Rob Knowles
HELPING HANDS: Healing Horses Therapeutic Riding Centre held an evening to explain what the centre was all about and entertained visitors with snacks, a video and a talk by adventurer Dan Skinstad at the Royal Port Alfred Golf Club last Thursday evening which was attended by over 100 people Picture: ROB KNOWLES
CEREBRAL PALSY

For the love of horses and people

To see a child or adult with multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy riding high on horseback when, before the therapy, they were even unable to sit upright is like a miracle for the parents, friends and teachers, and this is exactly the…

  • Rob Knowles