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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Issue 5 New   VOLUME 1 ISSUE 5  
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Tennis Legend Donates Time and Income to Loloma
Loloma Team Prepares for January Mission to Fiji
Aid Recipients
The Gift of Sight
Loloma Team to the Solomon's in 2008
Season Greetings from the Loloma Foundation
Contact the Loloma Foundation
What does your Donation Buy?
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Loloma Team Prepares for January Mission to Fiji
3 full containers arrive in Suva
by Linda Kwasny/Bob Sykes

Matt MacCalla, Lance Hendricks and Linda Kwasny examine shipping invenmtory at Direct Relief in Santa Barbara The Loloma Foundation team has been preparing for the January mission to Fiji, where three containers of medical goods and materials, our largest shipment to date will be unloaded and distributed.
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Loloma Team to the Solomon's in 2008
by Linda Kwasny

In May of 2008, the Loloma Foundation, in partnership with Direct Relief International will be sending a team of medical professionals and a 40 ft. container of medical supplies and equipment to the Solomon Islands.
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The Gift of Sight
600 Villagers Examined!
by Thomas Rippner, OD, FAAO

In January, 2007, I had the priviledge of being part of a medical team that provided primary medical and eye care to remote villages on the outlying islands of Fiji. The medical team numbered 7, sometimes 8, people.
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Aid Recipients
Where do all the boxes go?
by Bob Sykes

The Loloma Foundation reaches to many people accross the South Pacific. Follow this link to view a list of Schools, clinics, hospitals, villages and organizations that recieve your help. Aid Recipients
 
"Heard on the Coconut Telegraph"

Tennis Legend Donates Time and Income to Loloma
Tennis Legend Terry Holladay, who happens to be married to Loloma Director and infectious disease specialist Dr. Phil Higginbottom, donates her time collecting goods for shipment as well as part of her "tennis income" when she takes a breather from her San Diego real estate career.
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Season Greetings from the Loloma Foundation
In Fijian “Loloma” means “from the heart” or “a gift of love.”

Beqa Lagoon This Holiday Season give a special “Loloma”. Make a donation to help with our work in the South Pacific
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What does your Donation Buy?
$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

 
Contact the Loloma Foundation
You may always contact a member of the Loloma board. Please contact us with any questions you may have. We urgently 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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Published by Bob Sykes
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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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