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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Issue 11

VOLUME 1 ISSUE 11

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Loloma Ready to Embark on 2nd Solomon Islands Mission

Loloma puts the Solomon Islands on the Map

Humanity Lends a Hand

Cataract Team Performs 35 Surgeries

A warm "thank you" from Sister Patricia McLaughlin

Loloma Foundation Supporters Open Their Hearts

Medical Equipment Manufacturers Donate Equipment

What does your Donation Buy?

We Need your Donation!

One Lamp per Bure Project Update

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.

Every dollar you send will be directly used to benefit the people of Fiji. We do not currently take any administration charge.

Allison Batlin
abatlin@lolomafoundation.org

Bob Sykes
bsykes@lolomafoundation.org

Linda Kwasny
lkwasny@lolomafoundation.org

Dr. P. Lance Hendricks
lhendricks@lolomafoundation.org

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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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