Dinghy for Kikori Hospital ‘Stop TB’ outreach work!
Fundraising campaign by
Beth Lewis
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£7,025.00raised of £7,000.00 goal goal
Campaign Story
This fundraising campaign has a dual purpose. Primarily it is to raise money for a dinghy motor for Kikori Hospital, Papua New Guinea. Kikori is in the middle of the delta swamplands where the only way of transport is by river. PNG also has a big problem with tuberculosis (TB), and Kikori area has one of the highest rates of TB in the world with people dying daily from a disease that should be eradicated because it is both preventable and treatable. The Kikori Hospital team is doing lots of work going to villages to do health education and finding TB patients to stop the spread. They are also training TB volunteers in the villages they visit. They have been having transport difficulties for some time and needed a new dinghy motor, and then yesterday it finally broke meaning they cannot do any more life-saving TB work until they have a new one. And so we want to raise the money to make that possible!
This is a project that the incredible Dr Beth Lewis is at the heart of and very passionate about! And as she has a Very Special Birthday on May 1st, what better way is there for us to wish her a happy 30th birthday than to buy her hospital a dinghy!
Well done Kikori Hospital for all your hard work, and Happy Birthday Dr Beth! I hope we can make this dream come true for you!
Organizer
- Beth Lewis
- Campaign Owner
Donors
- Judy Lambert
- Donated on May 09, 2016
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 08, 2016
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 08, 2016
Pkease claim Gift Aid if you can, as I am a higher rate tax payer
Thank You!!!
Update posted by Beth Lewis at 03:26 amHi all, Beth here this time. Cannot say thank you enough. Like seriously this is just above and beyond...in every single way! Our internet has been down the last couple of weeks, then when I get back online temporarily I come back to this - Amazing!! And not just this
Donors & Comments
- Judy Lambert
- Donated on May 09, 2016
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 08, 2016
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 08, 2016
Pkease claim Gift Aid if you can, as I am a higher rate tax payer
- Mandy Isherwood
- Donated on May 06, 2016
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 06, 2016
- Ruth Anderson
- Donated on May 04, 2016
Happy Birthday Beth. You are amazing!
- Julian Money-Kyrle
- Donated on May 04, 2016
We take it for granted in the developed world that we will have easy and (usually) cheap access to state-of-the-art healthcare. For much of the world this simply isn't true. As an oncologist working in the UK I am routinely able to prescribe state-of-the art cancer treatment and costly drugs; at the same time I am aware that there are entire countries with no cancer service whatsoever. However, for subsistence farmers living in rural areas, the greatest health benefit comes from simple measures to prevent or treat infectious diseases. The replacement of this dinghy is an essential part of this and is clearly a very worthwhile cause. I am donating the cost of a single day's treatment with a modern prostate cancer drug in the knowledge that it will make far more difference spent in this way.
- Ann-Marie Edwards
- Donated on May 04, 2016
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 03, 2016
- Catherine Morris
- Donated on May 03, 2016
Great cause!
