HMCS Regina helps Vietnam orphange with Rose Charities Vietnam

On June 4th HMCS Regina came to Vietnam to celebrate the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Canada. During their four day visit to Ho Chi Minh city seven members of the ship's crew spent an afternoon visiting the children at Ben Tho orphanage in Dong Nai, which is about 40 minutes outside the city. They brought with them toys and food (including Girl Guide cookies which were a clear favourite among the children) and donated $1500 to Rose Charities Vietnam, to be directed to the orphanage, which is home to approximate 132 children. Sister Vinh, director of Be Tho, said the money will be used to replace the roof.

The money had been raised by the crew of HMCS Regina on its voyage across Pacific Ocean. An additional $2,800 was raised for Rose Vietnam at a corporate dinner held on board.

Rose Vietnam hopes to implement more sponsored programs for children and extend our reach to different regions with increasing support from organizations and individuals in Vietnam and abroad.

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Posted By RoseVietnam to Rose Vietnam at 6/04/2008 08:01:00 AM

UCCAN Madagascar become Rose Charities Madagascar

RoseCharities is honoured and delighted to welcome UCCAN Madagascar as fully part of the Rose Charities Network. For the past 2 years UCCAN had been working in close partnership with Rose Charities Canada but has now decided to become a full part of Rose Charities Canada. There will thus now be a Rose Charities Canada Madagascar Subcommittee. UCCAN has been supporting several projects in Madagascar, including a school infrastructure, teaching and community assistance project with a Madagascar partner Mahatsara .

Teach a man to fish ? - No.. teach her to be a lawyer, doctor, engineer, or business person

Update: Rose Sri Lanka is has just founded its own Rose Graduate Student Association... The Rose Charities Higher education program was started by Amanda Yogendran and a friend after they found out that many high-school students were getting University places, but could not go for lack of funds for simple living/ancillary ie books etc costs. Only around CAD300 was needed for an entire course. Since then Rose Charities has been linking donors with students and there are now around 45 graduates (or close graduates to be) in all areas (medicine, engineering, law etc). A college degree means an almost sure route out of poverty for the student, their family and perhaps even their community.
Rose Charities Sri Lanka is a fully independent locally registered organization www.Rose-Charities.com It is run by Anthony Richard (of Vancouver and Kalmunai) whose dedication to the programs is almost unbelievable. Anthony was the first recipient of the 'Charity Rose' award in 2005. Namartha Richard (Anthony's daughter) is currently in Kalmunai assisting with teaching on the junior education program. Rose Charities Sri Lanka's other programs include, counseling, sports-for-peace, micro-credit, vocational training, and educational assistance.

Rose Charities in Nepal

RoseCharities in Nepal is run by Binod and Kunti Aryal, under the name RIC-Rose. Since its inception, Rose Charities has has very close links and assistance from Nepal. Rose Chartities sprang from Project Iris (Iris continues doing wonderful work to this day .. see www.IrisAsia.org ). The links of one of the founders with Nepal, initially through AMDA Nepal, enabled Nepalese ophthalmology professionals, notably Drs, KC, Dr Basant, Dr Bhadri and others to come to Cambodia and found many of the eye programs that exist there today, including those of Rose and Iris. This in return initiated both Iris and Rose Charities organizations in Nepal itself.
Binod and Kunti Aryal carry out amazing work in many fields. Recently, Binod was invited to the UK to observe and work with a prisoner assistance program which had discovered that their work and Binods in Nepal had many useful similarities.
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Hillman Medical / Health Education Fund, Canada

RoseCharities is proud and privileged to run the Hillman Health Education Fund. This fund, set up by Prof. Liz Hillman in honour of her late husband Don Hillman, has been established to assist the education of health professionals in its main focus of Africa, but also other parts of the world. (eg. Pakistan). Professors Liz and Don Hillman are known to great number of people in Canada and we at Rose Charities are simply some of many who salute and laud the lifelong work of the Hillmans Both Liz and Don are just recipients of the Order of Canada.

RoseCharities in Pakistan

RoseCharities is helping in Pakistan through its Liz and Don Hillman Health Education Fund. Assistance is to the Frontier Primary Health Care project (see above). Assistance is to address local Pakistan needs and those of Afghan refugees. The FPHC have written...

"We would like to inform you that Health Department of Government of Pakistan and UNICEF jointly organised a campaign to observe "Child Health and Sanitation" week ( 21 to 26 April 2008) in Mardan district. The purpose of this campaign was to:

(1) Assess the EPI status of children aged 0 - 23 months

(2) De-worming of children aged 2 - 5 years by giving them de-worming tablets

(3) Sharing of information with pregnant ladies on importance of antenatal care and vaccination

(4) Sharing of information with mothers on nutrition and care of baby

(5) Demonstration of ORS preparation and administration to the families where there were cases of Diarrhoea and Dysentery

The campaign was actually planned for local Pakistani population in Mardan district.

You might be aware that FPHC is providing health, education and other community development services to both local Pakistani population and Afghan refugees. For its Pakistani programmes, FPHC is maintaining close relationship with Health Department of Government of Pakistan at union council, district, province and federal levels. Therefore, FPHC was fully involved in the said campaign.

As FPHC is partner of UNHCR in provision of primary health care services to Afghan refugees, the beneficiaries of FPHC's services include Afghan refugees living in Kagan and Jalala refugee camps in Mardan district. FPHC negotiated with the district health authorities of Government of Pakistan and UNICEF to include the two camps in the campaign so that refugees can also benefit the activities carried out in this campaign. The district health authorities and UNICEF were kind enough to include the two camps in the campaign. So FPHC, apart from local Pakistani population, carried out the campaign in the two Afghan refugee camps at Jalala and Kagan areas in Mardan district.

WHO-ETAT (Emergency and Admission care) course in Kenya (click for details)

RoseCharities sponsored this course through the Liz and Don Hillman Fund. This, Rose Charities managed fund is dedicated to training in health care in developing countries mainly in Africa...

"We just wanted to share with you the progress made with a Kenyan adaptation of the WHO ETAT course developed by Prof. Elizabeth Molyneux. By extending the course to 5 days (hence ETAT+) we have attempted to produce an emergency and admission care course that captures the main elements of immediate care as part of ‘Inpatient IMCI’ and as outlined in the WHO’s Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children.

We would like to thank many of you for your help to date as ETAT+ has developed or grown. We hope that with continued support the ETAT / ETAT+ approach can continue to adapt and evolve as part of attempts to improve care for the seriously ill newborn or child reaching hospital.

Best wishes,
Mike English & Grace Irimu

KEMRI / Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya."

Emergency training n Cambodia...

Teaching/training in emergency medicine and resuscitation is generously provided at the FIRST - RoseCharities Surgery Center courtesy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong