Lions Making A Significant Difference in the World

1. Lions Making A Significant Difference in the World A Story of Sponsorship and the Rugarama Health Center Feb 22, 2003

2. The Journey • April 1998- sponsorship of Agnes via TRURO/TOUCH. • Nov 2000-TOUCH initial request forlion recycled glasses. • Dec 2000-TRURO-TOUCHsponsor donates $70K for RHC. • Jan 2001-FHLC initiates action with LCIF-SF relative to RHC needs. • Feb 2001- shipment of sunglasses. • Aug 2001-first LCIF sight first grant approved for $215,888.00. • June 2002-dedication of RHC-delivery of more sunglasses. • July 2002-FHLC initiates action with LCIF relative to second grant. • Nov 2002-RHC operational-will provide service to 1.8 million folks. • Jan 2003-second LCIF sight first grant approved for $134,127.00.

3. Community Partners • TRURO Episcopal church • TOUCH (treasure one Ugandan child) • Compassion international • Fairfax host lions club • Lions clubs internationalsight first foundation • Diocese of Kigezi-Uganda • Lions of Kabale • Lions of Kampala, and Nairobi, Kenya • Ministry of health-Uganda

4. KABALE Lions Club

5. BACKGROUND • RHC originally established by diocese of Kigezi (church of Uganda) in 1983. • Original eye clinic was opened as an extension of RHC in 1991, was only placeKabale district offering professional eye careservices to the poor. • Main causes of blindness are cataract and xerophthalmia (vitamin A deficiency), along with some glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. • Vision impairment is very common among children. • 4000 blind people in Kabale district, most suffer from preventable blindness, by treatment or operation. • 2000 people in Kabale are blind because of cataracts. • 100,000 children aged between 11-18 need eyeglasses for significant refractive conditions, and there is no screening system for school children in place,

6. Rugarama Health Clinic

7. Progress Report: RUGARAMA HEALTH CENTER • Since Nov 2002, RHC has conducted over 100 cataract operations to date. • Conducted 2 eye training camps. • Currently conducting up to 5 cataracts per week now and will increase up to 10 per week when full time Ophthalmologist comes on board in the near future • New LCIF Grant will allow development of an outreach program to extend primary eye care and support into the local villages around Kabale .

8. COST OF SERVICES COMPARISON • UGANDA-RHC*Adult Consultation-$1.50*Child Consultation-$1.00*Medicines (eye drops)-$1.00*Adult Spectacles-$5.00*Child Spectacles-Free*Operation (1 Eye)-$20.00*Operation (2 Eyes)-$30.00Note:Operation is for Cataract • US ESTIMATES*Adult Consultation- $89.00*Child Consultation-$89.00*Medicines-Sample Free-RX+*Adult Spectacles- Frames($90.00-$300.00) RX Lenses-($74.00-$345.00)*Child Spectacles-Frames($69.00-$200.00)RX Lenses($74.00-$345.00)*Operation (1 Eye)-$3,000.00*Operation (2 Eyes)-$6,000.00

9. Touch Treasure One Ugandan Child • Headed by DIANE HUTCHINS and supported by TRURO EPISCOPAL church, FAIRFAX VA., And compassion international. • Since inception, touch has been responsible for helping sponsor over 1600 children in six villages around KABALE, UGANDA. • Developed the original concept of a health and eye center to help these children and the local community.

10. Compassion International • A Christian child development ministry dedicated to helping children in need around the world. • Compassion equips children for the future by providing for their core needs-spiritual, physical, economic and social. • Founded in 1952, starting with 35 orphans in Korea, now working in over 20 countries with over 2, 300 projects and more than 450,000 children.

11. COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL, Cont. • Through one-on-one sponsorship, compassion links caring individuals with children living in poverty. • Sponsorship is a powerful development tool that gives children hope, encouragement and an often-neglected message-that THEY MATTER.

12. COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY • Compassion is a member of several accrediting agencies, including the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability and the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance. • Recently recognized in Forbes, The Nonprofit Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy , and the American Institute of Philanthropy’s Top Rated Charities. • Compassion has consistently averaged more than 80% of total expenditures being spent for program activities, with less than 20% being spent for fund-raising and administration.

13. Where To Do We Go From Here? • Continue to help promote the. Development and self-sufficiency. Of RHC as appropriate. • Initially promote the sponsorship of Ugandan children within lions district 24A, via TOUCH and compassion international. • There are currently some 50,000 children in need in Uganda. • If there is enough interest/response to this initiative, consider forming an LCI partnership with compassion international to take the effort national and perhaps international as we did with habitat for humanity.

14. Consider This!! • You cannot change The world. • You can change The world for one Child, and perhaps thecommunity. • Look what happened when one lion from FHLC sponsored his first child in UGANDA.

15. TAKING THE NEXT STEP!! • Select a child to sponsor today. • We have 35 children available today for consideration. • Let the Lions of 24A give these children hope for the future.

16. COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL SPONSORSHIP • Sponsors are provided a child information package. • Sponsors send $28.00 per month to help pay for Christian Education, food, and medical needs for a single child. • Encouraged to write to and pray for the child. • Ministry helps the child write back three times a year. • Numerous ways to visit your sponsored child. • Hold on to your hat, for the changes that can take place.

17. New Friends

18. Smiles are Born

19. The Old Family Home

20. Moving Day

21. The Community Built a New Home for Agnes and her Grandparents

22. Compassion Workers Making a Difference And So Can You!