"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing"
I am appealing to the kindness and generosity of fellow Kai-Viti’s living away from home to make a small donation to this worthy charity project.
This is your opportunity to put smiles back on peoples faces back in the islands with medically acquired illnesses or injuries who are struggling to survive..
CONTAINER 1-Shipped on MV Fua Kavenga. Arrived Suva 3rd June 1999. Container sponsored by Mr Ashif Razak, Golden Manufacturers, Suva. Distributed to the NRM Tamavua Hospital. 18 folding wheelchairs, 42 adjustable beds on wheels, 16 waterproof mattresses, 40 cartons & boxes assorted surgical, pharmaceutical, medical aids and equipment-sterile gloves, endoscopies, syringes, intravenous equipment, surgical instruments, oxygen masks, theatre garb, tracheal tubes, swabs, Kelly forceps, urethral catheters, gastrostomy feeding tubes, Heparin injections, continence aids/equipment.
CONTAINER 2- Shipped on MV Forum Tonga. Arrived in Suva 10th September 1999. Container sponsored by the Fiji Red Cross Society. Distributed to the NRM Tamavua Hospital. 70 commodes, 70 aluminium walking frames, 1 palette load – bed covers, 1 palette load – bed sheets, 1 palette load – surgical gowns/sheet, 12 adjustable height steel beds, 7 waterproof mattresses, 5 boxes continence aids, 10 pairs aluminium crutches, 10 shower chairs, 2 barouches, steel hospital trolleys & other miscellaneous items.
CONTAINER 3-Shipped on MV Capitaine Tasman. Arrived in Suva February 28th, 2000.Sponsored by the Hibiscus Festival Association. Contents distributed by the Fiji Red Cross Society. 50 wheelchairs, 60 walking frames, 5 cartons continence aids, 4 boxes second hand clothing, 1 lifting machine, 2 barouches, 25 computers, 16 hospital mattresses. Special thanks to Ms Fanny Tam, Leba Tikoduadua and Mr Culden Kamea in Fiji for arranging sponsorship of this container.
CONTAINER 4-Shipped on MV Capitaine Tasman. Arrived in Suva 20th of May 2000.Container sponsored and distributed by the Fiji Red Cross Society. 40 height adjustable steel hospital beds complete with head/leg boards and side rails, 15 standard non-adjustable height hospital beds, 5 barouches, 6 mattresses, assorted cartons continence aids, clothing, medical aids.
