Haidar's Blog from Iraq
26 November 2011
The cold weather is setting in now, with temperatures going down to 7°c and having no gas or electric central heating in the building makes it bone-cruchingly cold. We have had to rely on gasoline heaters and wrapping up in lots of layers but the thankfully the temperature is nice and warm in the clinic, with [...]
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Fundraising kicks off in the USA – with a bowl-a-thon»
Dearborn Heights will stage the first US fundraiser for the Foundation with a bowl-a-thon on Saturday 4th February 2012. The event is the brainchild of Sura Hassan who is laying on ‘games, shoes, pizza and pop’ in a night of bowling for family and friends which will kick off at 8.30pm, Cherry Hill Lanes, 300 N. Inkster [...]
Urgent appeal as clinic funds run dry»
The Foundation is launching an urgent appeal to keep the clinic running on a sustainable basis. We need to move from barely covering the monthly clinic costs to a position where funding is secure throughout 2012. In response, the Islamic Unity Society (IUS), a charity organisation based in the UK, has launched a fundraising drive [...]
Orphan screening programme saves 11-year old’s sight»
Hassan Nassir is an 11 year old boy who developed glaucoma in both eyes some two years ago. A botched operation to treat the glaucoma in the right eye left him blind in the one eye. The same surgeon advised him to undergo an operation on the remaining (left) eye that still had vision. Fortunately, [...]
