SFI News & Updates

Zero TB in Kids, Mongolia Project Launched
April 2026

Zavkhan TB project team, November 2025 During the first part of 2025, much of the activity -- led by Dr Kunchok Dorjee of...

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SFI Kicks Off New Project in Mongolia to Eradicate TB in Kids
January 2025

Telo Rinpoche and Dr. Kunchok Dorjee visiting a dormitory in a village in rural Mongolia, June 2024 In late-December, 2024,...

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SFI Supports Fence/Wall Project for Dib Bahir School
February 2024

Reconstructed Gate at the Dib Bahir School During the Tigray War in Ethiopia in 2021, the fence/wall around the school in...

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SFI is Partnering with the Ukraine Humanity Center Being Established in Warsaw, Poland
December 2022

Ukraine Humanity Center being established in Warsaw, Poland Step Forward Initiative (SFI) is thrilled to partner with the...

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Children Return to School in Dib Bahir
December 2022

Classroom at Dib Bahir School after conflict Beginning in October 2022, children began returning to school in Dib Bahir....

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Wars Stop Programs in Kalmykia and Ethiopia
November 2022

Early in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic shut down our ability to provide the tuberculosis clinic in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia...

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Dib Bahir School
September 2020

New classrooms at Dib Bahir School SFI is pleased to announce that it will again collaborate with Limalimo Lodge and the...

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Dib Bahir, Ethiopia, Primary School
September 2019

New classrooms at Dib Bahir School In January 2018, SFI co-founders Ron Haak & Darlene Markovich visited the village of...

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Support for Kalmykia TB Program
June 2019

Meeting with staff at Elista TB clinic SFI continues to provide GeneXpert assay cartridges to the Elista, Kalmykia, Russia,...

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