Here are Rob’s latest Visual Newsletters showing our latest work in Asia and the Pacific Islands. For up-to-date information check out our Facebook Page too.
Alisa
Latest MENDNZ News from Africa 2023
Here are Rob’s latest Visual Newsletters showing our latest work in Africa. For up-to-date information check out our Facebook Page too.
Bina Nepali’s Story – Hope Disability Centre Nepal
This is a message to a regular donor to the Hope Disability Centre in Gulmi in Nepal. “Thank you so much for your generous support for such a severely poor disabled person. Because of your kind support, she has a new life and is more independent.” Bina Nepali’s Story Bina is 41 years old and … Read more
Jinja Bags: Victoria’s Sewing Business in Uganda
We support women with challenging disabilities in East Africa with medical help but also with small business support. Victoria is profoundly deaf and a solo mum of 4 kids. She makes a range of fantastic bags, aprons, oven mitts, purses, and lots more. Her business is called Jinja Bags. She also has malaria which makes … Read more
Hope Centre Fiji – a New Limb Centre
Thank you so much to our helpers and donors. This helps our partners and their programmes keep going…and growing! Now we are creating a new Limb Centre in Fiji that is badly needed – Hope Centre Fiji. There are hundreds of amputees in Fiji who are waiting for mobility (not wheelchairs). They want to walk … Read more
Fitting Limbs in Eastern Nepal
We receive updates most days from our partners heading out to remote villages to run prosthetic fitting camps. In Eastern Nepal, the team from our partner, Hope Centre Gulmi, have found many clients who need new limbs. So our team fit them with lightweight and snug legs so they can walk comfortably. The team also … Read more
Affordable Limbs for All (ALFA) Kenya
Why did Mend Start the ALFA Prosthetic Workshop in Kenya? Most Kenyan prosthetic workshops are not actively fitting quality, modern limbs that local people can afford to buy. The few centres that do make prostheses, such as PCEA in Nairobi offer ICRC( Red Cross) limbs at $500 US per Above Knee limb ( AK), and … Read more
MEND November News 2018
Dear Supporters MEND has been busy in the last year helping set up prosthetics units in East Africa and getting young amputees in other countries fitted with quality limbs at lowest possible cost or donated when extremely poor. In all developing countries there is no government support for kids or youth / students who have … Read more
Ganga sends us News from the Hope Disability Centre in Nepal
Ganga sends us (and our Australian sponsors) News from the Hope Disability Centre in Nepal: “We are very busy working in the field. Here is a story about Samjana Sunar who is a 22 years old young woman. She is suffering from a spinal cord injury. Our Hope Disability Centre field worker Dammar and I … Read more