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July report 08

Sinai Trek- March 2009, details here, but limited places

Very sadly August's Surgical Camp in partnership with Global Medical Missions has had to be postponed until November.

Violence between miiltants and the army erupted at Bomadi, within 2 miles of the Clinic base.

The Joint Task Force of the Nigerian army has implemented a curfew on the rivers and following a reprisal attack on a community on the Atlantic fringe the area is tense with uncertainty what will follow. The Clinic base continues to function on a daily basis, but reluctantly it was decided that a larger scale camp was not possible to undertake with restrictions on travel and unprecedented unrest in the region for some years.

Andy (Macey) and Ashley start their sponsored bike ride from Lands End to John O'Groats on the 25th July.  The route planned covers 1000miles to be covered in 16 days.         08/08 CONGRATULATIONS ON COMPLETING THE DISTANCE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE!

Despite heroic efforts from all who undertook the London 10km, the undisputed hero of the day must be Francico Perez Cutino  (Paco) who came in 14th out of 25,000, with a time of 33.53 mins. Not only an awe-inspiring result but many thanks for raising so much sponsorship. Equally however, thank you to everyone for taking part, and helping raise funds for New Foundations programs. A great day, and for some a day that doubled previously run distances, others achieving personal bests, for others the run providing a lift to stop smoking, while another ran the 10km barefoot. Congrats Paco, and for pics of the mere mortals.......click here

A group of companies in Lagos have generously sponsored the purchase of a 4x4 carrier, which will considerably ease our reliance upon hired transport that is both expensive and often unreliable. With increasing contacts outwith the immediate Delta region this resource will prove extremely useful.

We are very grateful to Ethicon for new sponsorship for our surgical programs concentrating on cataract and hernia surgery

Enekorogha Community survey 2008

Boat theft has been a real problem and we are grateful to EWB and the engineering department at Bristol University for undertaking to design a boat hoist for us.

Many thanks to  Alvyn Bysouth and Dr Jacqui Cole of Cambridge University for designing, building and fully funding this portable solar-powered fridge. This will enable us to establish a reliable cold chain for a full vaccination program  to be undertaken at the clinic base. Generators are expensive, noisy, and fuel supply unreliable making solar power ideal. The system will be taken out to Nigeria late April, and final field testing to confirm stable temperature control will be undertaken before clinical use. Thanks to Virgin Atlantic for specific help in shipment.

We are again very grateful to               Bausch & Lomb (UK) for their generous donation of intraocular lenses and surgical supplies for the forthcoming cataract camp in April.

Peter Garratt completed his barefoot from Nottingham to Buxton June 2008 for New Foundations. You can read his walk diary here . Well done Pete, and grateful thanks for the support..

£10,000 target reached on 17th April, sincere thanks to all who made this possible... click here for more news.....and here to see some pics plus report

Rapid Diagnostic Tests for the  diagnosis of malaria- a small study

 2007 highlights:                      Video

• despite the theft of our boats we undertook 20 medical camps treating 6500 patients.
• 2 vaccination camps covering measles, dpt, polio and Vit A. 2000 children vaccinated
• Tetanus vaccines given to 300 women
• 2 Health Care Workers trained under the auspices of the Tulsai Chanrai Foundation
• 2 Health Care Workers accepted to the Government  School of Health and Technology, sponsored by New Foundations for the three year duration of the course.
• Opening of a Rural Primary Care Clinic, operating daily, providing free treatment.
• Employment of further two midwives.
• Two specific camps to inner creeks to visit communities only accessible in the wet season
• Continuing partnership with Dr Gloria Patrick-Ferife of Eye Care Health Initiative to undertake a rural cataract camp operating on 24 patients (November 2007) and further collaboration in larger Nigerian led Eye Camps within Delta State, where since 2005, 540 cataracts have been operated on and a further 167 eye operations undertaken. We have also given appropriate reading glasses to over 150 people.

       Q.   What sort of costs are we talking about?

       A.    Well, we have operating costs of around £1500 per month, and no paid admin staff.

       Q.    Give me some idea of what money will buy.

       A.    Africa is surprisingly expensive to work in , but £5 can still go a long way.

       Q.   Can I see your accounts?

       A.   No problem,  click here.

2nd Nutritional & childhood health survey

health survey

Nutritional and childhood health survey

full report of past and current activities