NEWS ITEMS
Four Medical Teams have been sent to work with partner organizations in Haiti. The teams have worked in St.Marc, Gonaives and Port Aux Prince. A long term pediatric rehabilitation project is being created. Donations will be matched dollar for dollar by the Canadian Government.
Hillman Fund Supports Training of Trainers in Kenya
In Kenya, children are often brought to hospital when they are dangerously ill and need immediate emergency treatment. The Hillman Medical Education Fund of Rose Charities has paid for the training of 16 Kenyan trainers in Emergency Triage and Treatment (ETAT+). These new trainers will now begin training the faculty and final year medical students, which will save many young lives in the future.
Students Funded in Sri Lanka Through New Partnership.
Eleven Sri Lankan students now have the funds they need to go to university, thanks to a new partnership between Rose Charities and Education Generation. That makes a total of 36 university student scholarships funded since the tsunami. Check out their website: www.educationgeneration.org.
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Rose Charities Canada
Who we are:
Rose Charities Canada is a registered, non-profit organization with the Canada Revenue Agency, registration number: 859442303RR0001. We are Canadian volunteers who want to make a difference to world poverty. Rose Charities Canada is a member of the Rose Charities International Network.
What we do:
We raise money, resources and personnel to support Rose Charities field (and other) projects that have strong local leadership and dedicated volunteers in communities around the world. We work with them as they find their own solutions to the problems of poverty.
What makes us unique:
- We have low overhead costs because of our committed volunteers who donate their services.
- We have a lot of flexibility to support new initiatives.
- We are part of the Rose International Network who support to each other and their projects.
- We support projects developed by local communities.
What you can do
- Become Informed: learn about what is happening in the poorest communities around the world.
- Donate: Help us support local initiatives by making a donation.
- Volunteer: Assist us with fundraising and other activities.
Recent Activities:
- Haiti: Pediatric Earthquake Relief
- Cambodia: eye clinic and cataract surgery
- Cambodia: rehabilitative surgery
- Kenya: Hillman Fund supports health training
- Madagascar: village school and community projects
- Sri Lanka: micro-credit, educational support, peace-building
- Vietnam: centres for the blind, orphanages
- Uganda: Stand Tall School construction nearly complete
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