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Lions Making A Significant Difference in the World. A Story of Sponsorship and the Rugarama Health Center Feb 22, 2003. The Journey. April 1998- sponsorship of Agnes via TRURO/TOUCH. Nov 2000-TOUCH initial request for lion recycled glasses.
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Lions Making A Significant Difference in the World A Story of Sponsorship and the Rugarama Health Center Feb 22, 2003
The Journey • April 1998- sponsorship of Agnes via TRURO/TOUCH. • Nov 2000-TOUCH initial request forlion recycled glasses. • Dec 2000-TRURO-TOUCHsponsor donates $70K for RHC. • Jan 2001-FHLC initiates action with LCIF-SF relative to RHC needs. • Feb 2001- shipment of sunglasses. • Aug 2001-first LCIF sight first grant approved for $215,888.00. • June 2002-dedication of RHC-delivery of more sunglasses. • July 2002-FHLC initiates action with LCIF relative to second grant. • Nov 2002-RHC operational-will provide service to 1.8 million folks. • Jan 2003-second LCIF sight first grant approved for $134,127.00.
Community Partners • TRURO Episcopal church • TOUCH (treasure one Ugandan child) • Compassion international • Fairfax host lions club • Lions clubs internationalsight first foundation • Diocese of Kigezi-Uganda • Lions of Kabale • Lions of Kampala, and Nairobi, Kenya • Ministry of health-Uganda
BACKGROUND • RHC originally established by diocese of Kigezi (church of Uganda) in 1983. • Original eye clinic was opened as an extension of RHC in 1991, was only placeKabale district offering professional eye careservices to the poor. • Main causes of blindness are cataract and xerophthalmia (vitamin A deficiency), along with some glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. • Vision impairment is very common among children. • 4000 blind people in Kabale district, most suffer from preventable blindness, by treatment or operation. • 2000 people in Kabale are blind because of cataracts. • 100,000 children aged between 11-18 need eyeglasses for significant refractive conditions, and there is no screening system for school children in place,
Progress Report: RUGARAMA HEALTH CENTER • Since Nov 2002, RHC has conducted over 100 cataract operations to date. • Conducted 2 eye training camps. • Currently conducting up to 5 cataracts per week now and will increase up to 10 per week when full time Ophthalmologist comes on board in the near future • New LCIF Grant will allow development of an outreach program to extend primary eye care and support into the local villages around Kabale .
COST OF SERVICES COMPARISON • UGANDA-RHC*Adult Consultation-$1.50*Child Consultation-$1.00*Medicines (eye drops)-$1.00*Adult Spectacles-$5.00*Child Spectacles-Free*Operation (1 Eye)-$20.00*Operation (2 Eyes)-$30.00Note:Operation is for Cataract • US ESTIMATES*Adult Consultation- $89.00*Child Consultation-$89.00*Medicines-Sample Free-RX+*Adult Spectacles- Frames($90.00-$300.00) RX Lenses-($74.00-$345.00)*Child Spectacles-Frames($69.00-$200.00)RX Lenses($74.00-$345.00)*Operation (1 Eye)-$3,000.00*Operation (2 Eyes)-$6,000.00
Touch Treasure One Ugandan Child • Headed by DIANE HUTCHINS and supported by TRURO EPISCOPAL church, FAIRFAX VA., And compassion international. • Since inception, touch has been responsible for helping sponsor over 1600 children in six villages around KABALE, UGANDA. • Developed the original concept of a health and eye center to help these children and the local community.
Compassion International • A Christian child development ministry dedicated to helping children in need around the world. • Compassion equips children for the future by providing for their core needs-spiritual, physical, economic and social. • Founded in 1952, starting with 35 orphans in Korea, now working in over 20 countries with over 2, 300 projects and more than 450,000 children.
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL, Cont. • Through one-on-one sponsorship, compassion links caring individuals with children living in poverty. • Sponsorship is a powerful development tool that gives children hope, encouragement and an often-neglected message-that THEY MATTER.
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY • Compassion is a member of several accrediting agencies, including the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability and the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance. • Recently recognized in Forbes, The Nonprofit Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy , and the American Institute of Philanthropy’s Top Rated Charities. • Compassion has consistently averaged more than 80% of total expenditures being spent for program activities, with less than 20% being spent for fund-raising and administration.
Where To Do We Go From Here? • Continue to help promote the. Development and self-sufficiency. Of RHC as appropriate. • Initially promote the sponsorship of Ugandan children within lions district 24A, via TOUCH and compassion international. • There are currently some 50,000 children in need in Uganda. • If there is enough interest/response to this initiative, consider forming an LCI partnership with compassion international to take the effort national and perhaps international as we did with habitat for humanity.
Consider This!! • You cannot change The world. • You can change The world for one Child, and perhaps thecommunity. • Look what happened when one lion from FHLC sponsored his first child in UGANDA.
TAKING THE NEXT STEP!! • Select a child to sponsor today. • We have 35 children available today for consideration. • Let the Lions of 24A give these children hope for the future.
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL SPONSORSHIP • Sponsors are provided a child information package. • Sponsors send $28.00 per month to help pay for Christian Education, food, and medical needs for a single child. • Encouraged to write to and pray for the child. • Ministry helps the child write back three times a year. • Numerous ways to visit your sponsored child. • Hold on to your hat, for the changes that can take place.
The Community Built a New Home for Agnes and her Grandparents
Compassion Workers Making a Difference And So Can You!