Projects
Rotary Hearing Health, Humanitarian-Literacy Project, Uganda, Africa
Spring 2007
In autumn 2006 members a number of Rotary Clubs involved with the Rotary World Help Network including our Steveston Rotary club packed medical equipment including surgical microscopes, and computers, and school books to fill a 40' container for shipping to Uganda.
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The Uganda project included our Rotary Club of Steveston, the Rotary Club of New Westminster, and the Quadra Rotary Club, plus the host Rotary Clubs of Kampala Sunrise and Arua, in co-operation with the Uganda Ministry of Health, Department of the Disabled.
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The pictures here show delivery of the equipment in early 2007, the very sick taken in by missionaries of the poor, being assessed and treated, Vancouver Rotary surgeons training Uganda staff, in Uganda hospitals, Steveston Rotarian Dieter Howald's Bio Medical Engineering work and support Medical Surgical teams in Uganda. Also shown is a speech to the Rotary Club of Kampala, and happy local children after the group's arrival.
Also see: Rotary Hearing Health Uganda