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

Kwantlan University B.C. students working with Rose Charities

Rose Charities is excited to be working with students from Kwantlen Univeristy this term! Different groups of students will be working with different sections of the charity and will be learning about fund-raising, policy making, project planning, event planning, and how an NGO operates in Canada. They will be blogging about their experiences on the Rose Charities Canada site  http://rosecharities.ca

Supermodel Noot Seear and Roberto Luongo: Rose Charities African Nights: Vancouver

Noot Seear is should be swaying to the drums on tuesday night at the Rose Charities African Nights fundraiser. If she can get the time off from her busy acting and modeling schedule in L.A. she will be jetting in for the show. Roberto Luongo of the Vancouver Canucks (and gold medal Vancouver Olympics 2010 winner)  won't himself be there, but is represented in the most presigious item to many in the silent auction, a goalie stick autographed by him !  Noot and Canucks fans.. make sure you come    africannights.ca
                                                                                  

Pakistan Floods: Generosity from Physicans and Nurses

Thankyou to two Canadian and one Hongkong Physician and his wife. for incredibly generous individual donations to Rose Charities Canada for Pakistan Emergency relief totaling over $5000. The media has been reporting 'slow response' to this crisis - not so with these incredibly generous individuals. In addition, two previous volunteer nurses immediately stepped up an volunteered to be go to assist with the relief. For security reasons the offers were not taken up, but the speed and spirit with which the offers came were very touching and appreciated.

Relief efforts continue through partners 'Frontier Primary Health Care' who have had medical and other support team working full time from the beginning of the crisis

Books for Haiti !

Now arrived in Haiti are dozens of pediatric and nursing textbooks, a first start in Rose Charities' commitment to re-equip the nursing school devastated in the quake. Many more books and equipment will follow, some kindly donated.

Training mannequins-also essential for teaching purposes, are being sourced ready for the start of the nursing course in October 2010.

Social Symbiosis !

Bravo Josephine de Freitas for coming up with what defines Rose Charities 'social symbiosis !'... great term... !

Textbooks for Haiti Nurse training

Text books for the State University School of Nursing

The State University School of Nursing was destroyed in the earthquake and 74 students and staff were killed. There are 30 surviving 2nd year students and 64 thrid year. They are determined to get back to their studies as soon as they can. The School is now run out of 3 tents and there is a leaky storage room with big cracks in the walls. . In the storage room are a few battered textbooks that were dug out of the rubble and a heart-breaking pile of dusty stained uniforms. When our nurses visited the school and brought back the photos we (Rose Charities) were determined to help.

Thanks to the Montreal School of Nursing and many others who helped us with advice and contacts we have a shipment of wonderful new french-language textbooks arriving in Haiti this week. The publisher gave us 30% discount and donated 30 free books.