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Projects
Supported by To the Heart of the Matter 2010
MONARCH PLACE
Life in a violent home produces devastation and trauma. Whether the bruises are visible on their faces or
reflected in their eyes, women and children who come to Monarch Place Transition House need refuge and support at a crisis point in
their lives.
Your support will:
Help Monarch Place support these vulnerable people as they seek to re-establish their lives
Allow them to find a future of hope, peace, and safety. Monarch Place support
these vulnerable people as they seek to re-establish their lives and find a
future of hope, peace, and safety. A resident commented, “
Monarch Place was a
lifeline, an answer to my desperate need, a wonderful resource to help me
figure out what was going on in my life and what I could do about it.”
REFILWE LIFE FOR ALL PROJECTS
People in The Refilwe Community live in small, scattered, informal settlements where HIV and AIDS, unemployment,
limited education, lack of skills and poor housing are just some of the challenges facing the community.
The Refilwe Project will focus on:.
Critical needs of medical help, life skills training, childcare/education and income generating activities.
Building a Community Educational Center which will provide primary and high school education for 40 boys and 40 girls.
The school which will provide 12 classrooms, a library, a computer and skills-teaching centre, a cafeteria and a kitchen as
well as an adult education and skills training center.
TULBAGH COMMUNITY PROJECT, SOUTH AFRICA
Tulbagh South Africa faces the reality of serious poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and lack of support
services. Illness, death and hardship are the norm in everyday life here.
We currently provide:
Assistance with three soup kitchens, sports programs and counselling projects.
Young children with nourishing food on a daily basis that allows them to receive education on a full stomach
A positive outlook to the community that provides a window to a promising future.
The BALI CHILDREN’S HEARING PROJECT
Several local Rotarians have already been working together on a long-term
project to provide hearing services to deaf and hard-of-hearing children in
Bali
Indonesia
.
Since 2003, they have been investing their time and resources on projects
to fit donated hearing aids on children (almost 200 to date), provide a small
pre-school for hearing impaired children, and start an infant hearing screening
program in three of the Major hospitals on the island.
The Project work has been well-researched and the work is well-underway –
with Rotarians on board to volunteer their time and expertise to see these plans
to their conclusion.
HAITI MEDICAL MISSION
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. 80% of Haitian-trained physicians leave
the country to seek better lifestyle somewhere else. Coupled with the lack of resources, this leaves
the medical system in Haiti completely dysfunctional. In order to start to resolve this disparity,
- Keith Neufeld, a UBC medical student and a long-term advocate for Haiti, established the Haiti Medical Outreach Program at UBC.
- A group of UBC medical students along with Dr. Sam Edworthy travelled to Haiti in 2008 to provide some basic medical and dental care in the area called Grand Guave.
- In the summer of 2009, with the knowledge from the previous year, an expanded team with greater resources, returned to Grand Guave.
- Over two years, the UBC teams have treated over 600 patients afflicted with endemic diseases such as malaria and typhoid and provided dental care to nearly 200 Haitian people.
- UBC medical students are committed to the continuation of the Haiti Medical Outreach Program with a third trip in 2010.
- Our primary goals for the Haiti Medical Outreach Program are to continue providing medical aid to Haitian people while introducing students to third-world medicine.
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