January the Team Returns to Fiji
Eye Surgery , Dental Health and good basic medicine
by Linda Kwasny
On January 10, 2009, Loloma members Lance Hendricks, Phil Higginbottom, Allison Batlin and Linda Kwasny will travel from Los Angeles to Suva, Fiji to meet the container shipped from Los Angeles in October 2008. The medical supplies will be sent off to different medical facilities throughout Fiji. The Educational materials will be sent to a myriad of different schools and over 1000 school bags will be distributed to deserving children.
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The First Time
by Eileen Natuzzi MD
The first time I ever heard of the Solomon Islands was during a family gathering. My mother’s brother, Bill, went there while in the Navy during WWII. He was killed in action when his ship the USS Quincy CA-39 was sunk during the Battle of Savo Island. To my aunts and uncles the Solomon Islands were very remote, tropical and hostile.
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The Solomon Island Experience
The Loloma Foundation has taken it’s Fiji medical mission model to the Solomon Islands!
by Linda Kwasny
Imagine a country that has:
Only one major hospital to service the needs of 500,000 people.
30% of its population without access to sustainable, improved water
- Only 13 skilled physicians per 100,000 people
- Only a negligible share, per capita, of carbon dioxide emissions, globally
- 100% of the population has had Malaria
- A GDP per capita of $1814.00
- 82% of the population is rural
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Songs, Sweat and Laughter
by Bobbi Frioli
We all walked away from our experience in the Solomon Islands with the basic words one hopes would describe what our experience meant to us. I’m sure we all agree the trip was very rewarding, life-changing, enriching and something that touched us emotionally. All of these descriptions are true for me. Analyzing what made the trip all of those things, I had to really think about the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Everything Seemed to Work!!!!
by Sharon Rippner
I feel truly blessed to be able to take part in such an endeavor—and I am sure that is true for each of those who participated in this clinic. My husband (one of the optometrists on the trip) and I have been able to do many similar experiences over the last few years—all with their special moments, some more challenging than others, but none that has been such an all around GREAT TRIP!
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Young Volunteer Gives his knowledge and Friendship
by Matt Caley
Volunteering in Fiji was truly one of the most rewarding experiences in which I’ve had the pleasure of partaking. I’m left with a lingering sense of the beauty of Fiji. Not merely of its pristine waters and luminous beaches, but the very nature of its people. I’ve never met so many people that were all so humble and amicable.
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