Highlights

Matabeleland North

Children’s Emergency

Nutrition program races

forward

Kesari Dam Reconstruction,

Clean Water and Irrigation

Project: Detailed Update and

pictures

Matabeleland North Clinical

Partnership to fight

preventable blindness;

Vitamin A reaches clinics

St Philips Nursing School

complete their second

independent live online

ATCN Training Course

(Advanced Trauma Care

Nursing) held simultaneously

online with the ATCN

Course at the University of

Tennessee Medical Center

In this issue: Children’s Emergency

Nutrition Program Races

Forward

1,2,3

Kesari Dam Reconstruction

Clean water and Irrigation

Project on schedule

5,6

Matabeleland North

Preventable Blindness

Project

8

St Phillip’s Nursing School

and University of

Tennessee Trauma Division

hold Sept 2016 ATCN

Course

10

Acknowledgements

4,7,

9,10

In April 2016 Rtn Keith Holshausen from

Morrisville Rotary Club in Cary NC visited

Victoria Falls and personally delivered sup-

plies of Vitamin A, donated from Vitamin An-

gels, sufficient to prevent childhood blindness

from Vitamin A deficiency for a full year for

the Zimbabwean children aged 1-5 in Matabe-

leland North. However, whilst meeting with

Rotary and health officials Keith learned that

the El Nino drought of 2015-16 (the worst in Southern Africa since 1895) had de-

stroyed the crops of the region and resulted in a devastating famine in Matabeleland

North Province. Families were resorting to eating every other day and children were

being admitted with severe acute malnutrition into the area clinics and hospitals. With

eight months until the next harvest, significant loss of life was forecast amongst the chil-

dren (always the most vulnerable group affected) unless they could receive supple-

mental food through the dry season (Cont. Pg 2)

The Kesari Project is underway and on schedule to be

completed by the start of the next rainy season in

December.

Rtn Pete Edmeades of RC Bulwayo South reports “John

and I met Ed Nando and Veli Nkomo on site on

Wednesday afternoon. The core trench excavation was

approx. 40%

done and work

was underway

on the raising

and extending the spillway (using masonry

collected by the local villagers.) In addition,

two areas had been cleared - one within the

dam basin (quite small) and approx. 2 ha out

of the dam basin, within about 500m of the

wall. (cont. on Page 3)

Rotary Zimbabwe:

Fall Update 2016

Detai led Update: Kesar i Dam Reconstruct ion,

C lean Water and Irr igat ion Project :

Keith (4th from left) meets with members of

Wild4Life, Ministry of Health officials and Victoria Falls

Rotarians

Matabeleland North Children’s Emergency Nutrition Project Races Ahead

By the estimates of the WHO there were calculated to be 11000 children

at extreme risk of severe acute malnutrition and the first reports of deaths

from malnutrition were being received from the Matabeleland North area

which has some 26000 children below the age of 12.

After learning of the impending humanitarian disaster we reached out to ask

for help from our many friends and donors. Through our good friend Diana

Sufian we were put in contact with the

Emergency Response Team of LDS

Charities U.S. Bruce Muir and Jeff

Foy, realizing the urgency of the situation

quickly stepped forward and offered

assistance to help the children through a

major grant from LDS Charities,

Australia.

Without hesitation, the Rotary Club of Knoxville, and District Rotarians from

Arkansas Rotary District 6170, Rotary Club of Morrisville, NC,

Knoxville Rotarian Neil Coleman MD and The Zimbabwe Medical

Project volunteered matching contributions. DG Sandy Whitehead

and the board of our incredible partner Rotary Club of Bulawayo

South agreed to help coordinate on the ground in Zimbabwe and Rotary

Foundation of Knoxville has partnered to administer the funds. These

matching contributions enabled us to increase to more than 14000

children the number of affected children receiving supplemental food, to be

able to feed all of the lactating mothers and the children below age

5 at the 17 clinics and to increase the effectiveness of the supplemental

food by increasing the frequency of feeding from three to five days in the

primary schools.

Shelley Lasker with ePap Zimbabwe continues

to do phenomenal work with her husband Brian.

They have liaised with the Ministry of Health and

the Ministry of Education for Matabeleland

North and organized distribution to nine Primary

Schools of the area to the children through the daily

school feeding program. District Medical Officer

Dr Wisdom Kuraone, Kel Sheppey, Stephanie Stuart-Trinder, Forgie Wilson,

Latelang Ndlovu and Jonathan Levine of Wild4Life stepped forward to help distribute food to the children

under age 5 and the lactating mothers with children under age one at the 17 clinics identified as having children

most at risk.

The high calorie, high protein, vitamin enriched supplemental food chosen is called ePap. ePap has been used

extensively in Southern Africa for supplemental feeding. It is supplied as a porridge to the children and is simply

mixed with water prior to eating. Basil Kransdorff, a Paul Harris and Ashoka Fellow, Johannesburg, South

Africa was responsible for the initial formulation of ePap. Read more here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

PMC3559581/

Matabeleland North Children’s Emergency Nutrition

Project Races Ahead (cont. from Pg One)

Shelley Lasker reports on October 14 :

“the e’Pap has hit the ground in Hwange!

“There are two trucks completing the delivery of e’Pap to 17 clinics and 9 schools as I write to you and I thought

you might enjoy some photos.

We have two teams on the ground delivering to 17 clinics and 9 schools.

For the clinics the teams who are training the clinic staff in storing, controlling stock and preparing e’Pap as well as

how to fill in the data capture forms.

David and I will personally visit all of the schools and a selection of clinics next week, starting on 17 October to

check all is well at the institutions who will have received their consignment of e’Pap.

On Monday afternoon I will be running a workshop at Lwendulu School for primary

school headmasters and teachers in charge of feeding the

children at the affected schools .

On Wednesday 19 October at 9am we are doing the

official launch of the programme at the schools and we

have already invited the various officials from Ministries of

Health, Social Welfare and Education. This will take place

at Lwendulu School as well.

We have invited the children, teachers, School Development Associations and any

officials the heads of schools deem fitting to be present at the initial launch of the

school lunches at each school. “

.

The first 33 tons of ePAP

(delivered by road from

Klerksdorp, South Africa )

is being transferred to

trucks for transport to the

Hwange schools and clinics

Delivery

to

schools

Our gratefu l thanks to these Ind iv iduals and

Organizat ions that jumped forward to he lp in the

Chi ldren’s Emergency Nutr i t ion Project in Zimbabwe…

Salt Lake City UT

Bruce Muir, Jeff Foy

Sydney Australia

Ian Duddy LDS Charities Australia

Los Angeles CA

Diana Sufian

Knoxville

Townes Osborn

Allen Pannell

Bob Marquis

Neil Coleman

Jennifer Sepaniak

Elaine Mcculloch

Rotary District 6170

Allen Morgan

Pam Gibson

Dennis Cooper

Joi Burton

Ian Cosh

Lake Valley Community Church

Dr. Dru Dodson

Cary, NC

Sue and Keith Holshausen

Wild4Life

San Francisco: Stephanie Stuart-Trinder, Kel

Sheppey,

Boston: Jon Levine,

Hwange: Latelang Ndlovu, Forgie Wilson

MOH Mat North:

Dr Wisdom Kuraone, MBChB

Zimbabwe

Bulawayo

Rotary Club of Bulawayo South

Alvord Mabena, Sandy Whitehead, Jean Whiley,

John Sullivan, Jackson Munye, Shep Ndlovu,

Denis Paul, Roger Russell, Lesley Williams, Priscil-

la Mabena, Dingi Dhlamini, Piet te Velde, Ange-

lina Phiri , Brian Meikle, Buhle Francis, Busani

Bafana, Delay Dube, Everson Ndlovu, Gilbert

Simela, Mercy Moyo, Mpumelelo Mkhwananzi,

Paul McCay, Peter Edmeades, Richard Ar-

rowsmith, Rose Moyo, Terry Mafu, Thandi

Takawira, and Chiku Mulinde

ZMP Board Members:

Dr Noma Ndiweni PhD

Amy Madigan JD

Dr Mark Dixon FRCP

Bruce Muir and Jeff Foy of LDS Emergency Response and LDS Chari-

ties Australia for stepping forward and offering to help in the emergency.

Thanks to Allen Pannell, Townes Osborn and Jennifer Sepa-

niak, Bob Marquis, the Rotary Foundation of Knoxville and the

members of the Rotary Club of Knoxville for their indefatigable

help, encouragement and partnership in Zimbabwe

Many thanks again to our Rotary District 6170

partners who have again partnered to help the

children in Zimbabwe

Thanks to the US and Zimbabwe based staff of Wild4Life for their hard work

and devotion to the people of the Matabeleland North Province

The Morrisville Rotary Club and Keith Holshausen

without whom this project would not have been initiat-

ed

Dr Neil Coleman MD for his generous individual contribution. Neil has

participated not only in this project and the St Philips Nursing School but

also personally provided the first direct live Pathology lectures from the USA

to a Zimbabwe Medical School class via live video conferencing from Knox-

ville to Bulawayo

David, Ashley, Deborah and the staff at FTB Northshore for

going out of their way to help in the financial execution of the Children’s

Emergency Nutrition Project.

Background: The US Rotary Clubs of Knoxville, Morristown Noon, Rogersville, Morristown

Breakfast, Jefferson City and our Zimbabwe partner club, Bulawayo South have partnered with Rotary

Districts 6780 and 6170 (East Tennessee and Arkansas) and the Rotary Foundation along with

individual private donors from Knoxville and the Zimbabwe Medical Project to fund a Global Grant

project with the aim of alleviating the effects of cyclical crushing water shortages in Southern Zimbabwe. These

shortages have been magnified with the El Nino responsible for the current worst drought in living memory in

Southern Africa. Projections of starvation for up to 25 % of children in rural Southern Zimbabwe make the

completion of this project particularly timely and provides a way for this

remote rural community to help solve their own water and food

shortages.

The breached Kesari Dam near Kezi is

the sole source of water for Manyane

village. The first steps have begun in the

reconstruction of the breached Kesari

Dam in Matobo District, along with

capacity enhancement to provide water

for a downstream agricultural irrigation

project. Placement of a water filtration

system to provide safe drinking water

for villagers is planned to be placed

below the dam .

The project will provide desperately

needed water for livestock and domestic

use and it will provide water to enable the establishment of an

irrigation scheme. The proposed capacity of the dam is 86 000

m3 and the size of the proposed irrigation scheme will be

12500 m2. The community took an active part in identifying

and surveying the irrigation site and in surveying the previously

failed dam embankment. There is a community project

committee actively involved in the planning and execution and

the villagers have been mobilized to take part in the

implementation of the project. The residents of Manyane

village in Matobo District comprise a total of 380 adults and

1020 children.

Kesari Dam Reconstruction,

Clean Water and Irrigation Project Update Fall 2016

Kesari Dam Reconstruction, Clean Water and Irrigation

Project on schedule for completion before the rains

Alvord Mabena of Bulawayo South Rotary

Club gets input from the Manyane

community at the dam site

Continued from Page One

“The base of the core trench, when not on decomposing

rock, was on naturally well conditioned clay, making for a

perfect seal.

We also discussed Ed's proposal for repairing the main

breech, which he was intending to start early next week.

It is anticipated that the core trench excavation and the

excavation associated with the repair of the breech

would be complete by about mid-week next week and

that Ed would email photos of that aspect of the work

when done for our info and approval.

John spent some time with the site guys discussing level

and line control, particularly of the spillway masonry construction. John took numerous photos, as did Ed. The

local villagers are visibly ecstatic regarding the project, with quite a number in attendance.

Regards

Peter”

Core trench

Spillway sill upstream awaiting final plastering

Kesari Dam Reconstruction,

Clean Water and Irrigation Project Update Fall 2016

Our Indiv idual Volunteers and Donors and

Corporate Contr ibutors… Kesar i Dam

Reconstruct ion, I rr igat ion and Clean Water

project

Knoxville

Rotary Club of Knoxville members and World

Community Service Committee members.

Townes Osborn

Kathleen Lavidge (Hon)

Jennifer Sepaniak

Whitney Dawson

Sandy and David Martin

Randy Corlew

Allen and Rachel Ford

Northeastern Tennessee

RC of Morristown Noon,

RC Rogersville,

RC Morristown Breakfast,

RC Jefferson City

Zimbabwe

Bulawayo

Rotary Club of Bulawayo South

Alvord Mabena, Sandy Whitehead, Jean

Whiley, John Sullivan, Jackson Munye, Shep

Ndlovu, Denis Paul, Roger Russell, Lesley

Williams, Priscilla Mabena, Dingi Dhlamini,

Piet te Velde, Angelina Phiri , Brian Meikle,

Buhle Francis, Busani Bafana, Delay Dube,

Everson Ndlovu, Gilbert Simela, Mercy

Moyo, Mpumelelo Mkhwananzi, Paul

McCay, Peter Edmeades, Richard Ar-

rowsmith, Rose Moyo, Terry Mafu, Thandi

Takawira, and Chiku Mulinde

ZMP Board Members:

Dr Noma Ndiweni PhD

Amy Madigan JD

Mark Dixon FRCP

Dave Coltart JD

Sunningdale, United Kingdom

Tony Johnstone

Rotary Club of Rogersville TN

Rotary Club of Jefferson City TN

With the leadership of Keith Holshausen of the Rotary Club of Morrisville, NC,

a Rotary Foundation Global Grant has been approved to fund a team of

optometrists and ophthalmologists working in conjunction with

the clinical teams from Matabeleland North Ministry of

Health and Wild4Life

holding rural eye clinics and

specifically identifying

patients with preventable

blindness. Patients with

surgically correctable

blindness from cataracts will

undergo cataract surgery to

remove the cataracts and

implant artificial lenses.

Matabeleland North is an area that has been identified by the WHO as one of the

remaining areas of endemic Vitamin A deficiency

causing blindness. Vitamin Angels

(http://www.Vitamin Angels.org ) have partnered with Rotary, Zimbabwe

Medical Project and Wild4Life to provide supplies of Vitamin A sufficient to

prevent Vitamin A deficiency blindness in the region’s 28,000 susceptible

children below the age of 5.

We are pleased to welcome the Himalayan Eye Project to the partnership in Matabeleland North

province of Zimbabwe fighting the epidemic of preventable blindness

The eye surgeons for Himalayan Cataract Project will be treating the patients identified in the rural clinics

by our team of optometrists as candidates for vision-restoring cataract removal and lens implantation surgery. For

more on the incredible work of the Himalayan Cataract Project around the world, go to this link

http://www.cureblindness.org/

Himalayan Cataract Project joins

Matabeleland North Preventable

Blindness partnership

Himalayan Cataract Project joins team fighting

Preventable Blindness in Matabeleland North

Background

Vitamin A

Xerophthalmia -blindness from Vitamin A

deficiency- in a child in the Mat North clinics

Our gratefu l thanks to these Ind iv iduals and

Organizat ions that have made the Preventable

B l indness Project in Z imbabwe poss ib le

Seattle WA

Dr Lisa Frederickson OD

Dr Cindy Hung OD

Santa Barbara CA

Vitamin Angels: Austen Musso, Jamie Freder-

ik, Suzanne Cuddy

Knoxville

Townes Osborn

Jennifer Sepaniak

Cary, NC

Sue and Keith Holshausen

Wild4Life

San Francisco: Stephanie Stuart-Trinder,

Kel Sheppey,

Boston: Jon Levine,

Hwange: Latelang Ndlovu, Forgie Wilson

Himalayan Cataract Project

Dr Geoff Tabin, Pam Clapp, Job Heintz, Rowan

Burke, Bill Shields

Zimbabwe

Harare: Dr Solomon Gurumatunhu MBChB

Victoria Falls

MOH Mat North:

Dr Wisdom Kuraone, MBChB

Bulawayo

Rotary Club of Bulawayo South

Alvord Mabena, Sandy Whitehead, Jean Whiley,

John Sullivan, Jackson Munye, Shep Ndlovu,

Denis Paul, Roger Russell, Lesley Williams, Priscil-

la Mabena, Dingi Dhlamini, Piet te Velde, Ange-

lina Phiri , Brian Meikle, Buhle Francis, Busani

Bafana, Delay Dube, Everson Ndlovu, Gilbert

Simela, Mercy Moyo, Mpumelelo Mkhwananzi,

Paul McCay, Peter Edmeades, Richard Ar-

rowsmith, Rose Moyo, Terry Mafu, Thandi

Takawira, and Chiku Mulinde

ZMP Board Members:

Dr Noma Ndiweni PhD

Amy Madigan JD

Dr Mark Dixon FRCP

Dave Coltart JD

Thanks to the US and Zimbabwe based staff of Wild4Life for their hard

work and devotion to the people of the Matabeleland North Province

The Morrisville Rotary Club and Keith Holshausen, Rotarian of the Year 2016, for

their thoughtfulness enthusiasm and hard work in raising funds and successfully

being awarded a Rotary Foundation Global Grant to fund this project

Keith and Sue Holshausen for their invaluable expertise in organizing

the complicated and detailed travel and accommodation for our medical

and teaching teams

Vitamin Angels have generously renewed a grant of Vitamin

A supplies sufficient to provide prevention from xerophthal-

mia (childhood blindness from Vitamin A deficiency) for a full

year.

Many thanks to our corporate sponsors below who have given generously

to ensure the eye clinics are well supplied

In November 2015, the Zimbabwe Nursing Council

certified St Philips as the official National Nurse

Trauma Training Center for ATCN (Advanced

Trauma Care for Nurses). This is the only

center of its kind in Africa. The success and sustainability of the educational offerings have been achieved through

the continued support and participation of many organizations and individuals.

On September 30th & October 1, 2016, the third class of Trauma Nurses

graduated at St Philips with ATCN International

Certification. The two-day course is being taught via live

direct web lectures broadcast via broadband from the ATLS/

ATCN course being held simultaneously at the University of

Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee. The 16

nurses attending the course at St Philips in Bulawayo received the ATLS lectures from

Surgeons and Physicians on staff at UT Medical Center. The ATCN Nursing skills stations

and testing in Bulawayo are managed by ATCN Course Director Matron Samboko, assisted by Sr

Mandhizwa and supported by Sr Maureen Jamieson.

Debi Tuggle, Niki Rasnake, and Theresa Day and the University of Tennessee Medical Center in

Knoxville, Tennessee are dedicated to continuing the relationship with St Philips and providing assistance for

ATCN and other educational offerings. All of these offerings would not have been possible without the expert

services of Pam Tipton in the Audio Visual Department at UT Medical Center who has worked diligently

with each course to ensure seamless streaming of the lectures.

At the conclusion of the October 2016 course, 64

nurses have graduated from the ATCN

Course and 9 ATCN Instructors have been

recognized as ATCN International Faculty, with

Matron Samboko designated as an ATCN

Course Director.

October 2016 Advanced

Trauma Care Training held

conjointly between UTK Medical

Center and St Philips Nursing

School, Bulawayo graduates their

64th ATCN graduate !

St Philip’s ATCN Instructor team at the end of the

October 2016 Trauma Course

The October 2016 Trauma Graduates pose for

their graduation picture

Our Indiv idual Volunteers and Donors… St

Phi l ips Nurs ing School and Trauma Project

United States

Knoxville

Rotary Club of Knoxville members and World

Community Service Committee members.

Townes Osborn

Kathleen Lavidge (Hon)

Jennifer Sepaniak

Whitney Dawson

Sandy and David Martin

Dr Neil Coleman MD

Dermatopathology Partners, Dr Roy King

MD, Dr Neil Coleman MD and Dr Rob Page

MD

Bo Croley

Paul Kedrow, Bob Samples, Brown Wright,

J Mark Webb, Doug McKamey

Bill Hurt, Frank Rothermel .

Bruce Williamson

US Military SFC David Murray and CPT

Ramon Gomez.

Dave Parrington

Erma Morgan and her staff at Fort Sanders

West Out Patient Surgery

Volunteer Moving and the FSW team led by

Mike Marshall

Container loading volunteers Townes Os-

born, Elisa King, Roy King Sandy Martin Bob

Marquis, Neil Coleman Jim Holleman

(Volunteer Rotary Club), Allen Pannell and

Pat Rutenberg,

Rotaract members Bill Clayton, Katie Con-

rad and Dennis Stepp, plus Knoxville lawyer

Jason Murphy and Reagan Murphy and

Melissa Childs

Knoxville physicians Dr Joe De Fiore, Dr Eric

Bell, Dr Bill Tyler, Dr Kent Farris and Dr Bob

Madigan, Dr Robert Ivy, Dr Tom Sullivan, Dr

Chris Testerman, Frank and Sheila White

Dean Vickie Niederhauser, Univ of Tenn

College of NursingWebb Head Coach David

Meske and Coaches Jay Moore, Kevin Cat-

lett, Randy Carroll, Robby Collier with the

Webb High School Football players Davis

Delozier, Riley Wofford, Brody Leonard,

Stone Cummins, Christopher Stephens,

Hunter Green, Conner Courtney, Myles Ras-

nick, Juwann Jefferson, Conrad Jones, Sam

Werner, Alec Vetrano, Elliott Headden,

Tucker Riddick, Stokes Needham, Andrew

Craig, Jack Nadand, Wrinn Alexander, Dean

Miniard Knoxville News Sentinel’s Paul

Efird and Lance Coleman The Zsa Zsa Team:

Townes Osborn, Whitney Dawson, Channing

Dawson, Sandy Martin, Leslie Baugues,

Jennifer Sepaniak, Kathryn Johnson, Allen

Pannell, Jim Holleman, Bob Marquis, Breese

Johnson and David Martin.

Zimbabwe

Bulawayo

Rotary Club of Bulawayo South

Alvord Mabena, Sandy Whitehead, Jean

Whiley, John Sullivan, Jackson Munye, Shep

Ndlovu, Denis Paul, Roger Russell, Lesley

Williams, Priscilla Mabena, Dingi Dhlamini,

Piet te Velde, Angelina Phiri , Brian Meikle,

Buhle Francis, Busani Bafana, Delay Dube,

Everson Ndlovu, Gilbert Simela, Mercy

Moyo, Mpumelelo Mkhwananzi, Paul

McCay, Peter Edmeades, Richard Ar-

rowsmith, Rose Moyo, Terry Mafu, Thandi

Takawira, and Chiku Mulinde

MDH: Sr Maureen Jamieson

Adolf Macheka MBChB

Sr Samboko

Sr Mandhizwa

Gavin Stephens

Brendan and Ferrel Mitchell

ZMP Board Members:

Dr Noma Ndiweni PhD

Amy Madigan JD

Mark Dixon FRCP

Dave Coltart JD

Web Designer: Meg Mitchell

South Africa

Knoxville (cont)

UTMCK : Dr Stephen Pacifico MD,

Dr Mark Rasnake MD, AV Dept : Pam

Tipton, Tracey Whitt

UT College of Nursing : Dean Vickie Nie-

derhauser, Lynn Blackburn and Karen

Lasater

Evanston, Il Jasmine Alkhatib

Flagstaff, Az

Richard Henn RN SCN

Seattle, Wa

Mike Glenn RN SCN

United Kingdom

London Sunningdale

Nic Rudnick Tony Johnstone

Durban

Dr Andrew Baker MB ChB

Dr Liesl Baker MB ChB

Dr Ian Stead MB ChB

Di Leverone-Baker

Pietermaritzburg

Dr George Oosthuizen MB ChB

Canada

Calgary

Dr John Kortbeek FCS

Our Corporate fr iends and donors…

Many thanks to Dr Ken Bell, Joe De Fiore and Teresa Copeland of Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic and OrthoTennessee who

organized donations of orthopedic textbooks and orthopedic medical supplies from their physicians, nurses and clinics at

Maryville Orthopaedic Clinic, University Orthopaedic Surgeons and Orthopedic Surgeons of Oak Ridge

University of Tennessee College of Nursing Faculty and members of the Zimbabwe Nursing Teaching Team,

Lynn Andersen, Karen Lasater and with the support of Dean Victoria Niederhauser collected over 240 nursing

textbooks from the College of Nursing students and Faculty to give a great start to the library at the nursing

school in Zimbabwe.

Knoxville Rotary Club member, and CEO of A and W Supply, Rob Johnson donated over thirty items for the

school and library including desks, bookcases, chairs, filing cabinets and dry erase boards,

Our grateful thanks to Pete DeBusk, Tracy Edmundson and Johhny Hibbet, of the DeRoyal Industries family

that donated so generously toward hospital and orthopedic supplies for the hospitals and clinics in Southern Zim-

babwe. Thanks also to Bob Marquist and Dick Gillespie for their help.

Randy Fields with Messer Construction contributed 6 projection, pull down slide screens for the lecture

rooms….thanks to Doug Lawyer for taking the initiative to organize this! These are now in St Philips !

The Zimbabwe Medical Project (http://www.zimproject.org) helped fund the St Philips Trauma

Nursing Education Project, the Matabeleland North Preventable Blindness Project and the

Matabeleland North Children’s Emergency Nutrition Project

Books for Africa (http:www.booksforafrica.org) contributed over one thousand children’s textbooks for distribution by the

Rotary Zsa Zsa Team, led by Townes Osborn, to Zimkids in Bulawayo. The Osborn Rotary Team followed the medical

team to Bulawayo in Feb 2015.

University of Tennessee Medical Center helped with supplies for the Trauma Teaching Team members Niki Rasnake,

Debi Tuggle and Theresa Day who continue to be a pillar of strength to their Zimbabwe counterparts

Jasmine Alkhatib with The American College of Surgeons and Operation Giving Back helped supply student course manu-

als, X ray sets and teaching aids for the ATLS and ATCN Courses. Richard Henn and Mike Glenn with the Society of Trau-

ma Nurses went out their way to help us get official approval and support for the project, and ATLS Student manuals.

Don Hasson, Knoxville Rotary Club member donated the use of his warehouse at Southern Kitchen for the stor-

ing and packing of the 1100 cubic feet of educational and medical supplies….giving us the an invaluable capacity to

spend the time to pack efficiently and safely. Thanks also to Karen Taylor for her help and support

Nic Rudnick CEO of Liquid Telecom London stepped forward to organize direct fiber optic broadband access to the St

Philip’s Nursing School. Their continued support has been pivotal in the continued success of the St Philips Nursing

School teaching programs and the web conference based simultaneous teaching conferences and lectures.

Our thanks, once again, go to Keith and Su Holshausen of Lazy Lizard Travel (http://lazylizardtravel.com) for the

invaluable donation of their time and expertise in making the involved travel arrangements and bookings for our

Zimbabwe medical teaching and clinical teams

Our grateful thanks for the continued generous support of Tony Johnstone, PGA Pro Golfer and Assistant Captain

of the International team at the Presidents Cup 2015. Tony Johnstone designated funds from 2015 Presidents Cup

to the Zimbabwe Medical Project. This contribution is a portion of the charitable proceeds generated by The Presi-

dent’s Cup 2015 played at Incheon City, South Korea.