|
|  |
|
|
Season's Greetings from the Loloma Foundation
The Loloma team thanks you for your support and wishes you a joyous hoiliday season.
by Bob Sykes
The Board of Directors of The Loloma Foundation wish to extend the greetings of the season to our volunteers, donors, partners, and friends. Every mission to the South Pacific involves the commitment of literally dozens of people who unselfishly donate their time, their talent, and their resources to help the less fortunate people of Fiji and the Solomon Islands.
[FULL STORY]
|
The Team Returns to Fiji January 2009
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.
[FULL STORY]
|
One Lamp per Bure
Loloma's Piolt Solar Project--Enpowerment Through Energy
by Jane Lenoard
EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ENERGY
Without access to energy, developing nations are paralyzed in their ability to improve basic living conditions. Energy is needed to refrigerate medical supplies and pump fresh water from wells. It provides light for learning and access to computers, internet and communications technologies. It can expand a community’s economic base by extending hours for industry. Clean, renewable energy eliminates dependence on dangerous, expensive kerosene or petroleum products.
[FULL STORY]
|
Faces of the Solomons
Portraits by San Diego Photographer John Lyons
by Bob Sykes
The images that John Lyons captured during the team's mission to the Solomon Islands in May of 2008 were so stunning, we wanted to share, some of the portraits with`you. Consider it, a gift of the season from the Loloma Foundation.
Solomon Portraits Movie
[FULL STORY]
|
|
|
"Heard on the Coconut Telegraph"
|
|
| 
Loloma--In the Beginning
A chance meeting forms a foundation
by Bob Sykes
This Video, The Loloma Foundation shows and explains the origins of our small foundation: The Lalati Resort Clinic, the Schools on Beqa Island, etc. The bottom line: a group of people bound together by the love and enchantment of the people of Fiji. Take 10 minutes out of your busy day and join our adventure.
|
Vist the Loloma Store for T-shirts and "stuff"
Send a gift that gives to the people of Fiji, a Loloma Mug, teeshirt or ball cap.
Visit the Loloma Store and every purchase you make goes to help our efforts in Fiji and the South Pacific.
|
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.
[FULL STORY]
|
|
| |
|
|
Special Holiday Gift
In Fijian “Loloma” means “from the heart” or “a gift of love.”
This Holiday Season give a special “Loloma”, make a donation in someone’s name to the Loloma Foundation.
[FULL STORY]
|
Medical Equipment Manufacturer Loans Equipment
Sonosite Company provides portable ultrasound
by Eileen Natuzzi MD
In my practice I rely on ultrasound to help diagnose tumors, masses, fluid collections and blood vessel problems. I use ultrasound as frequently as my stethoscope. Sonosite makes ultrasound machines that are small, compact and portable, ideal for carrying to remote places.
[FULL STORY]
|
We Get Mail!
A letter of Thanks
From: Sister Patircia McLaughlin
Sent: September 22, 2008
Subject: Thank You from Fiji
We have received so much from you that we fail at time to put on paper what your assistance has meant to us.
When I started to teach in the above school seven years ago there was not an extra pencil, pen, crayon, jotter and easer or sharpener was unheard of. If a child came to school without any of the above they spent the day without? I bought for my class but my heart went out to the other 700 in the school who went without. That is a thing of the past now thanks to your Educational Box that is received with joy each year in this school but in many others as well.
[FULL STORY]
|
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
|
|
|
