greensburg rotary,usa, joins sa hiv/aids project

Rotary Club of Greensburg, Pennysylvania, USA, has  teamed up with Rotary Foundation  for a matching grant to enable Rotary Club of Hout Bay to purchase a portable blood pressure/heart reading monitor and other clinical equipment for the HIV/Aids section of Hout Bay Main Road Clinic, South Africa.

Rotary’s work in supporting HIV/Aids in the area is run in conjunction with the Hout Bay Health Forum under the club's project known as “Operation Medical Hope”.

 

The original seeding money for the project was in the form of a donation from Hout Bay Rotarian, Rainer Jahn, who retired recently and came to live in the valley after many years of heading up the Daimler/Mercedes Benz’s vehicle business in Tokyo. His connections led to a grant from Tokyo Rotary Club.

 

But Rotary Hout Bay was still short of the required funds for the Dinamap monitor.

 

Two years ago, Carl Rossman, then president of Greensburg, after a long association with Rotary Hout Bay through Prof Adib Barsoum, sent US$3,000 towards Operation Medical Hope. Only US$1,000 of this was used for additional HIV/Aids extensions that were built in the fishing area of Hangberg in Hout Bay, where Rotary Greensburg's name is on a plaque.

 

Now the balance of US$2,000 has been used to make up the balance required to purchase the portable monitor for the clinic and to purchase much-needed medical consumables for the HIV/Aids homecare and hospice team operating into the nearby township.

 

  The Main Road Clinic, a government day care clinic headed by Sister Carolus of the City of Cape Town Health Department, has been the subject of a separate building project overseen by Rotarians Butch Liebenberg and Allan Walker, supported by Australian Rotary Coolamon club who have undertaken a similar matching grant with Hout Bay Rotary.

 

A special opening ceremony for the extensions is planned shortly and the Greensburg grant will go a long way towards providing the necessary contents for the building.

 

Sister Carolus said, “We needed a lightweight and mobile monitor that could carried or wheeled from area to area, from room to room, which would permit easier monitoring under crowded conditions where the lighting is quite poor at times. Rotary have come up with the answer”.

 

Greensburg's name will be added to a plaque in Imizamo Yethu Main Road clinic as well!

 

Hout Bay Rotary says thank you!    

 

Rotary’s work in supporting HIV/Aids in the area is run in conjunction with the Hout Bay Health Forum under the club's project known as “Operation Medical Hope”.

 

The original seeding money for the project was in the form of a donation from Hout Bay Rotarian, Rainer Jahn, who retired recently and came to live in the valley after many years of heading up the Daimler/Mercedes Benz’s vehicle business in Tokyo. His connections led to a grant from Tokyo Rotary Club.

 

But Rotary Hout Bay was still short of the required funds for the Dinamap monitor.

 

Two years ago, Carl Rossman, then president of Greensburg, after a long association with Rotary Hout Bay through Prof Adib Barsoum, sent US$3,000 towards Operation Medical Hope. Only US$1,000 of this was used for additional HIV/Aids extensions that were built in the fishing area of Hangberg in Hout Bay, where Rotary Greensburg's name is on a plaque.

 

Now the balance of US$2,000 has been used to make up the balance required to purchase the portable monitor for the clinic and to purchase much-needed medical consumables for the HIV/Aids homecare and hospice team operating into the nearby township.

 

  The Main Road Clinic, a government day care clinic headed by Sister Carolus of the City of Cape Town Health Department, has been the subject of a separate building project overseen by Rotarians Butch Liebenberg and Allan Walker, supported by Australian Rotary Coolamon club who have undertaken a similar matching grant with Hout Bay Rotary.

 

A special opening ceremony for the extensions is planned shortly and the Greensburg grant will go a long way towards providing the necessary contents for the building.

 

Sister Carolus said, “We needed a lightweight and mobile monitor that could carried or wheeled from area to area, from room to room, which would permit easier monitoring under crowded conditions where the lighting is quite poor at times. Rotary have come up with the answer”.

 

Greensburg's name will be added to a plaque in Imizamo Yethu Main Road clinic as well!

 

Hout Bay Rotary says thank you!