Terri departs for Haiti to join 5th Rose / American Pediatric Assn / Health Frontier team in Port au Prince

Reg. Nurse. Terri Lubin left Vancouver today to help make up Rose Charities (and partners) 5th pediatric relief team. She took with her for the clinic,  a brand new Minispot Oximeter with two reusable sensors (for the larger and the smaller kids respectively). Terri replaces  R.N.  Linda Warner (B.C's Children's Hospital)  who has been writing a blog (www.bethechangeinhaiti.blogspot.com)  while she was there.   Linda took a glucometer with her foo the clinic.

Offiicial winery of Rose Charities ! Cortes de Cima ...

Of many loyal and generous supporters of Rose Charities, two of the stars are Carrie and Hans Jorgensen who founded, own and run the well known Cortes de Cima Vinyard in Portugal. Rose Charities is truly lucky to have such wonderful friends and ones who produce such wonderful products ! On many occasions Cortes de Cima has greatly helped the success of fund-raises with wine donations, as they will do again in the forthcoming FOTORELIEF Haiti exhibition and photograph sale in New Yord (18th March 2010) in aid of Haiti. Rose Charities owes a big, and continuing thankyou to Carrie and Hans and Cortes de Cima.   www.Cortesdecima.com    We are incredibly grateful.   And to everyone else,  please remember if you buy and drink any of the wonderful Cortes-de-Cima wine.. you are helping Rose Charities too !

General information....

Cortes de Cima, 7690-999 Vidigueira, Portugal
Tel: +351 284 463119 Fax: +351 284 463292
E-mail: wine@cortesdecima.pt Website: www.cortesdecima.pt

The Alentejo has led the way in Portugal’s wine revolution. It’s a region that has enjoyed tremendous success over the last decade, producing red wines in two distinctive styles. On the one hand, there is the traditional Alentejo style, perhaps typified by José Maria da Fonseca’s José de Sousa, the Cartuxa wines from Evora, or JP Vinhos’ Tinto de Anfora. On the other hand, there is the modern, fruit-forward, almost new-world style that has been such a huge commercial success and which has propelled this region forward so fast. Cortes de Cima, owned by Hans and Carrie Jorgensen, falls firmly into the latter bracket, and has rapidly established itself as one of the leading wineries of this region.

The Alentejo is huge, with its flat plains covering almost a third of the country. Much of this area is given over to cereal production. It’s also hot, and irrigation is common. In contrast to the northern regions, with their fragmented smallholdings, production is dominated by larger, professional outfits. Cortes de Cima are following in the trail João Portugal Ramos and Esporão, who have mainly concentrated on local grape varieties but who have also been working with Syrah, the only foreign grape to so far to have made much of an inroad into the region. Cortes de Cima’s most celebrated wine, Incognito, is in fact a varietal Syrah.

The great success of the Alentejo has been in making thoroughly modern, concentrated wines that still retain a distinctly Portuguese character, and this is what Cortes de Cima have done very well. There is strong local demand for these wines, their high intrinsic quality, and the ambitions of the producer. As an aside, Cliff Richard fans might like to know that the first vintage of his wine, Vida Nova, was made here

Novel Rose Charities Vietnam income-generation project by the Sia Center for the Blind, Hue.

Projects that aim at being self sufficient are the long term goals of Rose Vietnam. In the province of Hue, we support four Blind Centers through our Laundromat Income Generation Programme. We donated washers, plastic package sealers and towels to these centers to wash and package wet towelettes for the local restaurants.

Wet towelettes are usually provided on long haul air routes to Asia in a small, sealed plastic bag. Many restaurants and hotels in Viet Nam also have these wet towelettes as an additional service to guests for coping with the humidity. It makes more practical sense than a paper tissue which tend to stick to the skin.

Our pilot location is in Phong Dien Village, many thanks to Mr. Phuoc, our Board member, who works on site to ensure that our first site is in full operation mode and Mrs. Tina Nguyen, an online donor from U.S.A. We provided full line of equipments, training and helped them find customers.



Rose Vietnam hopes to expand the Laundromat Programme to the other three sites. All sites are now equipped with washers but we are looking for financial donors in order to purchase the plastic package sealers and more towels. The total start up cost is no more than $600 for each site, including the washer, but such an amount can go a long way. Rose Vietnam is actively seeking funds for this programme.