Get the teenagers talking !

LETS GET THE TEENAGERS TALKING:  Impact Through Peers   

'More than 85% of adolescents in Mbarara municipality (Uganda) get their health related information from peers'. (MUST pediatrician, D. Nansera (BMJ 2007 )
A community based organization, HEADA Uganda, has been voluntarily giving health talks  to  adolescents in four secondary schools in Mbarara Municipality.  The enthusiastic response from students and teachers to these talks, coupled with recent events in Mbarara resulting from bullying, lead to design of the Impact Through Peers project. 


 This project will work with 6 secondary schools and train 6 Peer Group Trainers to work with the students. The students will be supported as they work with their peers and discuss different topics every month.  Topics will include: Life Skills I & II, Reproductive health I,II & III, Sexuality, Career Planning I & II, Gender, Leadership skills, Environmental Issues and Stigma/Bullying

At the end of  the twelve sessions, an exhibition will be organized with presentations from students to spread information on peer groups and engage the  whole school population. 

The Hillman Medical Education Fund of Rose Charities has provided the funding  funding for  "IMPACT THROUGH PEERS "  Project in Uganda 

Sopheaps new leg !

Sopheap is a 44 year old grandmother living in a very basic house with just one room, and two outside walls. The other two walls are tarps. The wind and rain belted down for about 20 minutes while we were visiting, which was an experience in itself. Such limited shelter in those conditions. She has diabetes, a common condition in Cambodia, and as a result had her leg amputated last year. By the time Sopheap was referred to us, she was very weak and did not have enough strength to move around, or stand on one leg. She was not suitable to be fitted with a prosthesis until she had enough strength.

Sokny worked with Sopheap and she practiced her exercises regularly at home, developing her strength. This month, we took her to Veteran’s International (VI) who assessed her and cast her for a prosthesis. Last week she was fitted with it. We followed her up at home yesterday to assess her progress and work on gait re-training. She has only had one fitting, and will need some adaptions made at her next VI appointment, but she is already doing extremely well!! She is very happy, saying she is now able to move around the village and visit her friends. She is looking forward to learning how to walk without the crutches. Great work Sopheap!!                              Joanna Thomson. Rose Cambodia Rehab Centre.

David Waterman donates book proceeds to Rose Charities

Renowned international photogrpaher David Waterman, to donate proceeds of new book to Rose Charities ! Dave has had an illustious career in travel, sports (skydiving) and phto-journalism but in his early days was with the British 'paras' and jumped into the Suez Canal area in the 'Suez Crisis'    Later, Dave Waterman was one of the main advocates and introducers of the then new 'relative work skydiving' in the UK and set the scene which lead onto several great teams (including 'Symbiosis' )  and a movement which exists to the present day. . Dave now lives in Spain, runs professional workshops and leads photo-expeditions to Morocco and other  locations 

Please take a look at this fine book (click) which is an important and fascinating record of British and international history from someone who was directly there