The Gerontius Amenity Fund
Saving Lives in Sierra Leone
This year we have treated 22 patients at a cost of about £6000.
Undoubtedly our saddest case was Salome Charley, the daughter of our administrator, Hannah Charley. She was a previously fit and well 33 year old who sadly contracted malaria. She ended up on ITU with cerebral malaria. Despite oxygen therapy etc she died a few days before Christmas. Probably as a result of the stress, her grandmother had a stroke, becoming another of our patients.
Nevertheless we have had some success stories. At the other end of the scale, we successfully treated a baby with an umbilical hernia at a cost of just £50. Typhoid and malaria continue to be prevalent. We successfully treated a 6 year old with a hernia- he had to have his malaria and typhoid treated first!
Taking patients to hospital has been greatly helped by the car we bought for Hannah last year, (fundraising outside the charity) including some very generous donations. This has been particularly helpful for our 37 year old patient with a leg ulcer which is healing very slowly.
On the fund-raising front we had a thoroughly enjoyable supporters’ meal at the King’s Head and Bell pub in Abingdon - the Landlord kindly giving us the function room for free. My commercial instinct said we should give a free meal and ask for donations. Unfortunately tentative enquiries with our supporters pointed out this wasn’t what their donations were for! So we asked for at least, £20 (the cost of the meal) which reduced the number of guests. But at the end of my presentation those who were there gave generously.
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