Loloma Foundation eNewsletter

Loloma Ready to Embark on 2nd Solomon Islands Mission
Team of 24 volunteers are preparing for an adventure of a lifetime
by Bob Sykes/Linda Kwasny

Led by medical director P. Lance Hendricks, MD, project coordinator Linda Kwasny, and Solomon Island coordinator Eileen Natuzzi, MD, a group team of twenty-four volunteers, including doctors, optomitrists, dentists and support people will depart for the Solomon Island on August 30th. These unselfish individuals not only donate their time and talent, but also pay their expenses.
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Loloma puts the Solomon Islands on the Map
Map highlights areas Loloma will be working in 20009 Solomon Island Mission

Highlighted area will be clinics and surgeries conducted by Loloma Foundation in September 2009

This will be the Loloma team's scecond visit to theSolomon Islands.

The Solomon Islands is a wide island nation that lies East of Papua New Guinea and consists of many islands: Choiseul, the Shortland Islands; the New Georgia Islands; Santa Isabel; the Russell Islands; Nggela (the Florida Islands); Malaita; Guadalcanal; Sikaiana; Maramasike; Ulawa; Uki; Makira (San Cristobal); Santa Ana; Rennell and Bellona; the Santa Cruz Islands and three remote, tiny outliers, Tikopia, Anuta, and Fatutaka
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Humanity Lends a Hand
Yasawa Island Mission, January 2009
by Linda Kwasny

We experienced the worst of times and the best of times on our January mission to Fiji.

Our arrival was perfectly aligned with the largest deluge of rain in 60 years, flooding the western side of Fiji in Nadi, destroying infrastructure and leaving many villages in the Yasawa Islands with no viable food from their crops. Partnering with Navutu Stars Resort we had an extremely productive mission.
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Cataract Team Performs 35 Surgeries
The floods can't stop "Team Loloma"
by P. Lance Hendricks, MD

Colonial War Memorial Hospital Loloma Team

Our cataract surgery team landed in Nadi on Monday, January 19^th. They were brought to Suva (a 130 mile trip to the eastern end of the main island) from the airport in Nadi on the western end. The trip was slowed by several hours due to residual flooding from the heavy rains the previous week.
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A warm "thank you" from Sister Patricia McLaughlin
Daughters of Charity nun a huge part of our success
by Sister Patricia McLauglin

Sister Patricia is very much our eyes and ears when we have no team members "in country." She is truly an unselfish giving person who loves the people of Fiji. And will finnd a way to make their lives better.

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"Heard on the Coconut Telegraph"

One Lamp per Bure Project Update
Loloma's Piolt Solar Project--Enpowerment Through Energy
by Jane Lenoard

Unfortunately the January cyclone interrupted the Vuaki Village site assessment and prevented the fundraising village rummage sale for the ‘One Lamp Per Bure’ project. However, Terry Holladay took photographs of the village and a village elder gave Linda Kwasny an excellent village plan including a thorough building inventory so progress was made.

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Contact the Loloma Foundation

Please contact us with any questions you may have. We need your donations of medicine, equipemnt, school supplies, or clothing. Especially, we need cash to acquire materials, and cover shipping costs. Every little bit helps.
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Loloma Foundation Supporters Open Their Hearts
$650 donated in flood relief effort
by Bob Sykes

Vinaka friends. In January our team found itself in the midst of the worst flooding in Fiji’s recent history. In a special edition of this newsletter, Flood Relief Newsletter, we asked supporters to donate to help with extraordinary costs of a rural population dealing with this crisis. The generosity was heartwarming. Within a week, we received $650 for emergency relief from various supporters.
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Medical Equipment Manufacturers Donate Equipment
Sonosite, ConMed and Gore Open their Hearts
by Eileen Natuzzi MD

Dr. Eileen Natuzzi using Sonosite portable ultrasound in the Solomon Islands

It is indeed heart warming that several medical manufacturing corporations have stepped in with the donation or "loan" of very expensive medical equipment for our continuing work in the South Pacific.
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What does your Donation Buy?
--Photo Allison Batlin

$10.00 Will buy enough pencils to stock a rural primary school in Fiji for all children for half a school year
$25.00 Will buy enough notebooks to stock a rural primary school in Fiji for all children for half a school year
$50.00 Will purchase enough topical antibiotics for one nursing station for 1 month.
$100.00 Will purchase 100 double walled boxes for clinic delivery
$500.00 Will purchase one case of bandaids
$1,000.00 Will purchase a case of bandages
$5,000.00 Will pay for the cost of shipping one 20 ft. container full of medical supplies

We Need your Donation!

Dr. Bob Duell and patient in Yasawa Islands

Donate Now
We need your help to pay for some of our “hard” expenses in the pending mission to the Solomol Islands. Whatever you can donate at www.lolomafoundation.org/donate will make a significant difference.
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Published by Bob Sykes
Copyright © 2009 Loloma Foundation. All rights reserved.
The Loloma Foundation is a non-profit 501(c) (3) entity that was formed to support the heavily burdened medical/dental and educational systems already in place in island nations of The South Pacific. The Foundation is authorized by the IRS to accept tax-deductible financial contributions.

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