Accessible care for the elderly, frail and poor
A nonprofit built on prevention through access to education, training and ministry, serving families from Austin, Texas to Igbodo, Delta State of Nigeria.
Care that reaches the people the system leaves behind
The Rosy Foundation is a nonprofit agency founded on the principles of promoting prevention through access to education, training and ministry. Our vision is to facilitate a process that helps the elderly, frail and poor on a local and eventual global level.
We bring care, training and the support of the community into the home of the patient and the caregiver, one family at a time.
What We DoOur vision is to facilitate a process that helps the elderly, frail and poor on a local and eventual global level.
The Rosy Foundation Vision
Founded by a couple who saw the gap first-hand
Rosy’s administrators, Sunday “Sunny” and Rosy Uzuh, understand first-hand the ailing state of fair and accessible healthcare. Watching numbers of indigent and elderly patients fall through the cracks of coverage, without the basic elements of consistent medical care, the Uzuhs took action.
Together the couple shares a strong personal dedication to administering a high level of professional healthcare to everyone who needs it, including those without the resources to afford the growing cost of care and coverage.
Foundation namesake Rosy A. Uzuh began in education, teaching students in North Dallas. After hands-on experience attending to patients at Austin’s Seton Home Care agency, she opened Rosy Health Care Service, where she handles the entirety of administration.
Sunday “Sunny” Uzuh grew up in Nigeria, where limited access to care was routine. He left in 1977 to pursue a degree in Economics, later earning a doctorate in economics at the University of Texas at Dallas, and brings over twelve years of progressive administration experience to the Foundation.
Help us reach one more family
Your support brings prevention, training and care to communities that need it most, at home and abroad.
Get InvolvedPutting money back directly into communities
The agency and the Foundation are natural outgrowths of the Uzuhs’ experiences: one as a home health aide in Austin, Texas, and the other’s desire to match a doctorate in economics with what was really happening in certain populations in Texas.
Economics that answers to people, not abstractions
Sunday “Sunny” Uzuh grew frustrated with the impersonal nature of economic analysis and how it abstracts the state of healthcare for the poor, particularly the experience of those living with HIV and other illnesses in Austin and in Africa.
With the help of his wife and partner, Rosy Uzuh, he inaugurated the Rosy Health Care Foundation as a way to bridge American resources with deprivation in Africa. The two organize prevention programs and health fairs to aid uninsured people in Austin, an effort they are replicating in Nigeria with the construction of a full-fledged emergency care facility.
Putting money back directly into communities.
The Uzuhs’ Mantra
See where the need is greatest
From Austin neighborhoods to rural Delta State, the work is grass-roots and personal.
Explore Our NeedsCare is a family affair, wherever the family is
The Rosy Health Care Foundation targets the needs of some of the most destitute populations, the elderly and minorities facing economic difficulty, the majority of whom are women. We approach each community in distinct ways, understanding that when a patient is homebound, the caregiver beside them, a spouse, sibling, child or neighbor, is carrying immense stress with little relief.
Austin Needs
Provisions like in-home training and support are not made by insurance companies. Our first objective is to bring care, training and community support into the home of the patient and provider. The work is grass-roots and customized to each patient: connecting the community at large with individual caregivers and providing the medical training to help.
We are especially attentive to the growing population of uninsured Hispanic families, whose female members are particularly susceptible to diabetes, HIV infection and heart disease. The Foundation has built in initiatives to serve this population directly.
Nigeria Needs
Austin to Africa, a program operating under the Foundation, connects pharmaceutical and medical supplies in the United States with African nations facing the AIDS epidemic. In Igbodo, Ika North East LGA, Delta State, Sunny Uzuh’s hometown, a community health facility is now in full construction.
Supported partly by the local government and mostly by the Foundation, this clinic will provide basic health provisions, an urgent matter even in an oil-rich economy. Aid gathered for Nigerian residents is brought personally, through a trusted intermediary from the United States, so supplies reach the people they are meant for.
Population figures cited from a Commonwealth Fund study referenced in the Foundation’s materials.
Be the link between need and resource
Your involvement helps supply the clinic, fund training, and keep care reaching families on both continents.
Support Our MissionTranslating 20 years of advocacy into functioning care
Dr. Uzuh wants to translate the advocacy work he has conducted for over 20 years in Austin into some of the most basic necessities of a functioning healthcare system, delivered where they are needed most.
Free & low-cost treatment
Health treatment at free or minimal cost for rural Nigerian regions, starting with Igbodo, Delta State.
Medical supply & pharmacy
Medical supply and pharmaceutical inventory for the developed rural clinic in Delta State of Nigeria.
Testing & treatment
Testing and treatment for HIV/AIDS, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and other pressing health issues.
Training & scholarships
Clinic fellowships and on-site training for Nigerian clinicians and health care workers.
Community CPR scholarships
Scholarships among residents of Igbodo, Delta State, to learn emergency medical and CPR training.
U.S. partnerships
Partnerships with U.S. companies and pharmaceutical distributors to develop a full-resource medical center for the community’s urgent needs.
Fund the work that reaches people
Every contribution moves supplies, training and treatment closer to the families who need them.
Get Involved TodayBoard of Directors
Local Board
- Dr. Sunday “Sunny” & Rosemary “Rosy” Uzuh
- Senior Pastor Sterling Lands, II, D.D.GCBC, Austin, Texas
- Dr. Ogah EdiomAgency Medical Director
- Dr. Edoka EmmanuelAgency Medical Director
- Willie Mae Reed
Overseas Board
- His Royal Highness, Obi Iyeke III (JP)Obi of Igbodo, Delta State of Nigeria
- Mr. Sampson ZemiefeDirector of Prisons, Delta State of Nigeria
- Chief (Prof.) A.C. UnomahAdviser to Obi Iyeke III
- Dr. Sunday “Sunny” & Rosemary “Rosy” Uzuh
- Martins OkochaCommunity Health Director, Igbodo, Delta State of Nigeria