CIDA (Canadian International Development Aid) to help victims of Cambodian Water Festival Disaster

 The Canadian Government is assisting victims of the November 2010 Cambodia Water Festival Disaster by an emergency Canda Fund grant through Rose Charities Cambodia Surgical Center / Operation First Cambodia.  Over 400 persons lost their lives in a stampede over a small footbridge linking an island in the Tonle Sap river just offshore from Phnom Penh, and the mainland.  In addition many persons were injured and need medical, surgical and rehabilitative assistance.   Cambodia Surgical Center which is run by Operation First at Chea Chumneas Hospital houses some of Cambodia's leading surgical facilities in Camboida as well as a international standard physiotherapy unit.  It is anticipated that several hundred survivors are in current need of assistance and will be helped by Canadian generosity.

Asolate Rwanda: Stove production beigns...

Stove Production Begins Asolate Rwanda

With the generous support of the Body Shop Foundation, and other private donors, The Asolate Stoves Project, in the Kicukiro District of Kigali, has been able to start stove production. Fourteen technicians are currently working with fourteen youth to build several different styles of coal-burning stoves. News of these stoves has traveled, and demand is high. People from other provinces are requesting Asolate’s stoves, which is very encouraging!  The stoves are incredibly efficient. They should reduce the amount of wood needed for cooking, with is highly beneficial to the environment. In addition they provide skills and income generation.  Asolate is is a member project of Rose Charities Canada

Rose Charities Sri Lanka Graduation Day !

Rose charities’ Graduation day 13th November, 2010

Rose charities’ early childhood education centre was celebrated the Graduation day on 13^th November, 2010 at English language institute. The students staged many programs such as speeches, dances and dramas. They were attracted by the parents and the teachers. The chief guest for this function was Mr. Prabakaran the (principal of Wesley high school Kalmunai) and the distinguished guest were Mr. Sanjeev Sivakumar (the registrar of southeastern university) and board of directors.The certificates were given to the students by the guests who were complete the preschool education and joining the primary education in year 2011.

Assistance for Cambodian Water Festival Bridge Disaster 22 Nov 2010

Rose Charities / Operation First run rehabilitation and surgical projects in  Takmau, Phnom Penh (Chea Chumneas Hospital) under the Directorship of Dr Nous Sarom and Ms Joanna Thomson (Rose Charities Australia)  Thankfully no staff or family were caught up in the awful bridge disaster last week where over 335 victims lost their lives; most of them young persons.

The Rose Charities network is offering all assistance to Operation First / Rose Rehab for any emergency surgery or rehab treatments needed. 

Rose Charities has an intimate history with Phonm Penh Cambodia in the area of surgical and rehabilitative assistance. It was there that the organization was founded in 1998.

To donate please click  www.rosecharities.info/donate.htm.  Donations will go medical / rehab or other needs of any of the victims or their families

The image is of surviving victims being treated in a local hospital 

All of Rose Charities extend all their sympathy to Cambodia for this terrible event.

Asolate Rwanda 'Green Stoves' production project opens

Asolate Rwanda has opened its new project to produce 'green' wood burning stoves. The stoves which are far more efficient than those commonly used in rural Rwanda. Many of the participants in Asolate project training programs are ex child soldiers

Asolate has trained more than 41 local youth leaders, 6 trainers from Asolate training centres, and 14 technicians who will all work on the Asolate Stoves Project. They have been trained in project management, how to participate in achieving millenium goals,  and how to act in order to reduce poverty.

The stove project was supported Asolate's Canadian arm, a member project of Rose Charities.

VIBE Center Sri Lanka - ready to open !

The Vancouver Board of Trade in conjunction with Rose Charities Sri Lanka has built an education and technology center for the town of Kalmunai.  After the 2004 tsunami a fund was established by the Vancouver Board of Trade and the funds collected donated to Rose Charities Sri Lanka to help with and augment their community programs  (see  http://rosesrilanka.info)

The decision was made by Rose Charities Sri Lanka Program Director Dr Yoga Yogendran, in conjunction with Mr Frank Borowicz, Governor of the Vancouver Board of Trade, to found the facility. The VIBE Center will be one of the first international facilities of its kind and will be equipped with the technology to enable people in remote rural communities to engage in on-line learning and knowledge management through the VIBE e-learning portal, in conjunction with the local Chamber of Commerce. It will also be on of the first learning centers through which a unique new kind of on-line specialized English language training developed by “KnowledgeOne”  (a Vancouver group) will be made available.

The formal opening of the VIBE Center will be at the end of November.

Rose Charities Sri Lanka was registered in Sri Lanka following initial emergency relief,  medical and counseling  teams were sent from Canada.   Mr Anthony Richards,  now Chief Executiver Director of Rose Charities Sri Lanka traveled to Sri Lanka from Canada with the first emergency team and has devoted his life ever since to the building up of Rose Charities Sri Lanka. Projects now include, education, health, peace-sports, micro-credit, income generation and community development. The VIBE Center will be a huge step forward for the Kalmunai Community, one of the worst affected by the tsunami in Sri Lanka

New Book: Superfly: By Dave Waterman and John Partington-Smith: Proceeds to do go Rose Charities

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  See .....http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1661748 (Click) 

Internationally renowned photographer David Waterman, and acclaimed cartoonist, designer and artist John Partington-Smith both have a lifetime of tales and jokes from their skydiving careers. Both were among the originators of sport parachuting and skydiving in the UK founding the first relative skydiving team(s) and continuing activities in all aspects of the sport for 40+ years.   The book is a compilation of jokes and snippets from all these years.  They are generously donating proceeds to Rose Charities.

Even if  you are not a skydiver you will find the pages enormously funny and entertaining, and you will, in your purchase be helping the poor through an organization with almost zero administration costs, community level projects and the sort of work-together ethic that is found in skydiving.

Dave and John 'PS' are amazing individuals of incredible talent. Their generosity is hugely appreciated. 

Malambo Grassroots Zambia becomes member project of Rose Charities Canada

Malambo Grassroots, formerly Mwabuka has become a formal member-project of Rose Charities Canada.  The program is 16km north of Monze in Zambia and supports a school, health clinic and womens groups which produce wonderful handicrafts some of which have been sold in Vancouver to raise funds for the project.

Poverty in Zambia is very bad.  More than 2/3rds of the population live on below $1 per day.    See  www.malambograssroots.ca

Cambodia Eye Surgery: 90,000 patients since 2002

The Rose Charities Cambodia Sight Center has seen over 90,000 patients since 2002 and carried out around 12,000 surgeries, most of them to restore sight or prevent blindnes.
Patients for consultation and treatment come to the clinic by their own means from all over Cambodia, such is its reputation.
The Rose Charities Sight Center has attained its high reputation through the expertise and dedication of its all Cambodian staff and the support of Rose Charities experts, mainly from New Zealand and Nepal

In 2002 the clinic was gutted and looted by a crooked expatriate, loosing its vehicles. Patients however continued coming from all over Cambodia, such was its reputation.  It has thus risen again through the dedication, charity and work of many - a triumph for honesty and morality,  and a huge asset for the poor of Cambodia

Nursing School support - Haiti

 Haiti - Rose Charities has sent a massive shipment of medical equipment and supplies for the Nursing School and Hospital in Port-au-Prince. The 40 ft container, packed to capacity with beds, cribs, scrubs, needles, monitors left MedWish International (Ohio, USA)  yesterday and will arrive in around 4 weeks time. Much of the contents were donated to Rose Charities by MedWish - all are desperately needed items

 Canadian Nurse Educators will be going to Port-au-Prince in October to conduct a neonatal nurse education program for 20 Haitian nurse educators. Rose Charities Canada has bought equipment and mannequins to assist.. Donations from the Sikh community and many others in Vancouver have made this possible. The nurses' school was completely destroyed in the earthquake with the loss of 74 young nursing students. The Vancouver nurses will be offering instruction to 20 students from four hospitals in Port-au-Prince.

Books to rebuild Haiti

The first shipment of french language nursing textbooks donated by Rose Charities has arrived at the School of Nursing in Haiti! It took us quite a while to source these! We wanted to ensure that they were the right books for Haiti and trying to research what we were looking for on the internet in french was a challenge. Finally one of our volunteers, Jan Johnston , got on her bike in Montreal and pedaled down to the Montreal School of Nursing and spoke to the Dean who was incredibly helpful. She put us in touch with the publishers and advised us on what to purchase. The publisher gave us a good discount and donated 30 books.
And after many emails going backwards and forwards to Haiti to get through customs etc- we hear that they arrived safely. The school is up and running again in 3 large tents. They dug some of their old books out of the rubble but these are in pretty bad shape.
Now the next task is to get the equipment for the teaching lab!

CSUK-Rose Charities Cambodian Education sponsorship program

The Rose Charities - CSUK Cambodian education sponsorship program has now started. Founded By Sarah Miller (Rose Charities Australia) and Mr Rady (FDCC Cambodia) two students, Mao Mengley and Nhor Dany have been selected as the first recipients for their studies at Chea Sim University of Kamchay Mear (CSUK). Both students are studying accountancy , both stating that they know that good financial managers and accountants are in great demand in Cambodia.

Rose Charities main education sponsorship program is currently in Sri Lanka, were all ages are sponsored in a major program which also covers ECCE (early childhood care and education). In Sri Lanka for college / university level education, Rose Charities works closely with the organizaton Education Generation which helps sponsor students on a world-wide basis using the internet as a primary vehicle

Many more deserving students in Cambodia also need assistance. Any donations to this program are clearly most welcome. Students are carefully selected according to their needs.

Flood relief images Pakistan - from FPHC

Rose Charities / Hillman Fund / AMDA Canada is assisting the Pakistan Flood Relief effort though its partners Frontier Primary Health Care FPHC and AMDA Canada. FPHC is a grassroots NW Pakistan registered organization which delivers wonderful health care projects to its region in the areas of health education, maternal and child health, and medical clinics and outreach. In this time of disaster they are working flat out, 24-7 in near impossible conditions to assist tens of thousands of sick, injured and homeless people. At the time of writing AMDA International is coordinating with them for an emergency international mission with staff from their offices in Indonesia and Afghanistan.

Funds for these efforts are needed urgently. Please donate if you can - every bit helps however small. Rose Charities has no admin costs; except for small bank transfer charges, funds go entirely to where they are intended www.rosecharities.info/donate.htm

Help to Pakistan flood victims

Rose Charities is a long time supporter of Dr Emel Khan who runs an amazing program on the Pakistan Afganistan border called Frontier Primary Healthcare FPHC. If you want to donate to help FPHC donate to Rose Charities (state that your donation is to go to Pakistan flood relief)

Dr Khan writes:

Really the situation here is worst and irreversible damages have been caused by the heavy rains and floods in Pakistan. The floods have played havoc in whole Pakistan especially Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces. However, the Khyber Pukhtoonakhwa province has been worst affected. The beautiful vally of Swat, Shangla district, Lower Dir, Upper Dir and Malakand agency, districts of Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, Nowshera and Charsadda are amongst the worst hit areas of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa. Mardan and Swabi districts have also been affected but the damage is not that heavy. The floods have entered Punjab province and now entering Sindh. This is still raining here and even today one of our teams could not reach to its place of medical camp because again there were new floods and the team had to change its area of work. There are torrifying scenes in the flood affected areas and even 20 Feet flood water was flowing over roads. Currently two of our mobile teams consisting Medical Doctors, Medical Technicians, Lady Health Visitors, Social Mobilisers and support staff equipped with Ambulances, medicine and equipment are providing emergency medical services including Mother and Child Health Care services to flood affected people. So far the major diseases reported are Skin infections, diarrhoea and Respiratory infections. Till yesterday the two teams have treated 3,240 patients and provided antenatal care to more than 55 pregnant women. In addition to the mobile teams, our fixed health centres in Charsadda, Nowshera, Mardan and Swabi districts are also providing health care services to flood affected people even if they are out of the catchment areas of our health facilities. We are also providing other support like occasional cooked food, clothes and utencils etc. But the demand is very high and even the national, international organisations and Government of Pakistan cannot meet the requirement. Our health facilities are collecting donations in kind and cash from those people who have not been affected by the flood but these donations are very limited.