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Board member Wend Schaefer has just spent three weeks in Tanzania. OFFERING HOPE TO PATIENTS WITH CRIPPLING DEFORMITIES

Board member Wend Schaefer has just spent three weeks in Tanzania.

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One thing that is certain in our life is death. Yet, most of us are scared to discuss END OF LIFE - A TABOO SUBJECT?

One thing that is certain in our life is death. Yet, most of us are scared to discuss

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Our members are actively involved in offering hope to many disadvantaged people. ROTARIAN DOCTORS IN ACTION - SOME OF OUR PROJECTS

Our members are actively involved in offering hope to many disadvantaged people.

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Mental illness is extremely common. Despite its frequency and dire consequences, MENTAL ILLNESS - WHY THE STIGMA?

Mental illness is extremely common.

Despite its frequency and dire consequences,

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FOR MANY PEOPLE IN TANZANIA, LIFE IS HARD. FOR PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM IT IS EVEN HARDER PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM - EARNING A LIVING

FOR MANY PEOPLE IN TANZANIA, LIFE IS HARD. FOR PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM IT IS EVEN HARDER

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AN IMPORTANT MILE STONE

The Atlanta Convention was a mile stone for the Fellowship. Our booth in the House of Friendship was colourful and packed with information. Our friends at the booth – Chris, Surendra, David, Jean, Joan – all were utterly charming and passionate as they spoke to hundreds of people. There was never a dull moment – it was always buzzing with old friends and new ones. 
 
Our aim was to raise the profile of the Fellowship and LISTEN to health professionals from different countries and different specialities. 
 
It was clear that there was an ocean of good will and limitless energy amongst the health professionals in Rotary. Much of this appears to be underused at present. 
 
The call to the Fellowship was loud and clear. Rotarians with medical skills would like to see more opportunities to use their skills to help others.
 
We came to realise that we cannot continue as at present. We need to move on with a broad range of activities.
Our current status limits us – as a Fellowship of like-minded people who network. In order to expand our activities we need a different organisational structure – a Rotary Action Group and or a non-profit making organisation. We were delighted that the Annual General Meeting authorised us to explore this.
 
There will be many challenges on the way. But I hope that any change we bring about will help our members to channel their time and skills to reduce health inequalities and suffering. 
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Death can be beautiful

'Death can be as spiritual and beautiful as birth’ says Dr Clare Gerada, a GP in the United Kingdom. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph (3 July 2016) about her father’s painful decline due to dementia she says: ‘We need to think about how we and the people we love want to die ’. Clare does not want her life to end the same way. She says: ‘I’ve already started planning my infirmity.'  Do doctors choose to die differently from thier patients? 
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‘I had a dream of building an Orthopaedic Hospital in East Africa’

One of our Board Members Wend Scahefer, an Orthopeadic Surgeon from Nevada in the US talks about his dream and says: ‘I had a dream .. now I need to reach out to all of you for assistance.' 
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Offering hope .... 
Our Board member, Wendeline Schaefer has just returned from Tanzania where with a team of volunteers from the US he was involved in offering hope to a number of patients with complex Orthopedic problems. 
 
“This five-week trip was the most rewarding of any trips that I have made to East Africa in the past 24 years. I had a wonderful team of three RN’s, Ellen Murphy who did recovery work, Tom Marsh, circulating nurse, and Dave Schuurman, nurse anesthetist. In addition, Dr. John Felder, a plastic surgeon from Washington University in St. Louis, joined us for several days.
 
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MY MOST REWARDING TRIP TO TANZANIA

Our role in revolutionising a common deformity

A dramatic change has taken place in the treatment of clubfoot (talipes equinovarus) in the last twenty years. As Rotarians we should take pride that Rotary International played a role in changing the treatment of clubfeet for the better
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Yoga, meditation and moral education
 
Our Vice Chair, Dr Kusum Chopra is on a mission to empower tribal people in central India to lead a healthy life. Does Yoga, moral education and meditation play a part in healthy living? 
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Specialist consultation only a phone call away

Our Vice Chair Frances Kemelagha (Princess) from Nigeria has coonected the Federal Medical Centre in Yenago in Nigeria and a medical team in California. She and her collaborators now want to create a web of hospitals to imporve clinical care.
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Rain water harvesting - a low cost option to improve water supply

Many of us involved in projects in developing countries would have come across the problem of water shortage. The situations may vary from draught leading to death and destruction to unreliable and inadequate supply of water. In some situations, conservation – especially of rain water – may offer at least partial solution. 

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Stop mothers dying

Reduction of maternal and child mortality through avoidance of preventable deaths is an important focus of Rotary International. The Calmed model is anew approach to an old problem. 
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Albinos are those without 'colour' i.e. without melanin. Life is hard for albinos throughout Africa, but especially in Tanzania. At best, they face raw prejudice; at worst, they are hunted for their flesh, the results of superstitious beliefs. Now Rotary offers them a helping hand. more...

Our members are actively involved in offering hope to many disadvantaged people. more...

One pregnant woman and 6 new born babies die every minute- staggering 0.4 million and 3 million respectively, per year globally. The impact of the loss of one person on the family, community and the country is enormous.more...

APPLICATION FORMmore...

Global consultation - tried and tested. more...

More than 100 million people are pushed into poverty each year because of medical costs. Rotarians aim to improve and expand access to low-cost and free health care in underdeveloped areas.more...

One thing that is certain in our life is death. Yet, most of us are scared to discuss this subject. We would like to open a forum to discuss end of life care and offer a service to our members so that they do not loose control of their life. more...

WE DON'T HAVE TO LOOSE OUR DIGNITY AND FREEDOM AS WE GET OLDmore...

Mental illness is extremely common. Despite its frequency and dire consequences, it is surrounded by ignorance, prejudice and stigma. It is a topic that no one wants to talk about. It is the elephant in the room. more...

Please share with others your knowledge and skills in organising health projectsmore...

A Club beyond your own Clubmore...