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Local nonprofit helping Afghanistan
Real estate news By Jeb Bing
Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 9:19 AM
A local nonprofit organization that was organized following the 9/11 terrorists attacks in the U.S. will soon open a medical clinic it built and is now equipping in the western Afghanistan city of Hewat. Realtor Cindy Duffy of the Pleasanton office of Prudential California Realty off Owens Drive near Hopyard Road is chief fundraiser for the World Transformation Center (WTC), where she is also a board member. The organization was founded in 2002 by Kathy Ollerton Krafchow. Her husband Ed Krafchow owns Prudential California Realty, which has three offices in Pleasanton, and is the firm's chief executive officer.
WTC, which has no affiliation with the real estate firm, nevertheless has a number of Prudential agents involved as volunteers, including Duffy. The group held a fundraiser last week and an unidentified Utah businessman donated the equipment and much of the medical supplies that will give the seven-room medical clinic an X-ray room, incubators, devices for sonograms, and fully equipped labor and delivery rooms, a first for Afghanistan. The organization is paying the $50,000 needed to ship the medical equipment and supplies to furnish the hospital clinic in Herat. "As it is now," Duffy said, "families must travel long distances to the other side of the country for health care, an expensive trip that many can't afford and just don't make. The clinic the WTC has just built will give them complete care close to where they live."
Kathy Ollerton Krafchow is a recognized vision consultant to business organizations. She has conducted leadership seminars for the last 25 years and has worked with over 150,000 executives. Through her coaching and mentoring, she and those who work with her, including Duffy, have business and social contacts throughout the U.S., where much of the funding comes from for WTC's efforts. It was during one of the coaching sessions that terrorists flew planes they had hijacked into the World Trade Center's twin towers, destroying them and killing more than 3,000.
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