RCCR Covid Relief: Panadura Base Hospital

Seeking your support towards completing the Panadura Base Hospital project (Target #1).

Thank you to our generous donors who came forward and helped us reach the first Rs. 1 Million in 60 minutes! You can find RCCR on:

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RCCR Covid Relief

AN URGENT APPEAL FOR SUPPORT IN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE PANDEMIC:

FUNDRAISER FOR THE PANADURA BASE HOSPITAL BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF COLOMBO REGENCY

Friends, the Rotary Club of Colombo Regency (“RCCR”) is raising funds to meet a lifesaving need of the Base Hospital, Panadura, i.e. ensuring their critical covid+ patients get necessary oxygen supplies.

This hospital contacted RCCR concerning their urgent need for the related equipment, namely a wall oxygen supply unit, oxygen regulators and High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) units. The hospital’s appeal letters to RCCR will follow this post.

Wall oxygen supply units can support many critical covid+ patients at once and this capacity expansion was a top urgent requirement for this hospital. To enable this capacity expansion, twenty (20) oxygen regulators and three (3) HFNC units are also needed.

For the wall unit, the cost is Rs. 1.3 M inclusive of installation and RCCR raised the needed funds for this over the weekend. RCCR has now commenced its procurement process for the remaining equipment, namely the HFNC units and oxygen regulators.

To complete this project there is an urgent need for further funds amounting to Rs. 4.4 M to enable procurement and installation of the remaining equipment: HFNC units (3@Rs. 1.3M each) and oxygen regulators (20@Rs. 23,500/- each).

PLEASE SUPPORT THIS RCCR FUND RAISER & HELP US SAVE LIVES

Please direct your donations** to RCCR’s dedicated project account:

Name: Rotary Club of Colombo Regency

A/c No.: 0860 – 33479699 - 010

Bank: Seylan Bank Plc.

Branch: Millennium

SWIFT code: SEYBLKLX

Project reference: Rotary Regency COVID Relief

**All donors will be issued with official RCCR receipts.

For further details contact: PP Prabhu (Project Chair) on +94 77 321 5333

See Below for the Requests from the Panadura hospital.

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WANTED - Goodwill Ambassadors

Looking for Goodwill Ambassadors to join us in our efforts to 'HEAL THE WORLD'

Thursday's @ 12:45pm at the Royal Colombo Golf Club (Ridgeway) - Colombo, Sri Lanka

+ 94 77 736 8820 | rotarycolomboregency@gmail.com

Site-Visit by RCCR

Rotarians Sepalika and Asha of RCCR visited Kalmunai in the Ampara District to get a first hand look at the Well Cleaning Process and speak with the project implementors, recipients and relevant authorities.

They were able to visit both '500 Well Cleaning' Projects of Stretchline & CandleAid.

The RCCR Members were bombarded with words of praise and acknowledgement towards the donors and cordinators of the Well cleaning project, which resulted in many of these un-fortunate victims of the dreadful floods being able to continue with their daily livelihoods and chores without the fear of water borne illnesses affecting their loved ones.

Rtn. Asha with a Cleaned Well recipient family.

Rtn. Sepalika with another Cleaned Well recipient family.

1st 500 Wells Cleaned!

500 Wells of the 1st 500 Wells Cleaning Project sponsored by Stretchline (Private) Limited have been cleaned. out of this, over 250 wells have already been certified by the PHI (Public Health Inspector). Awaiting the balance to be certified.

Below are a few pictures of the inauguration day.

Quality of the well water is tested and report submits to the P.H.I’S for these areas.

Vellavely D.S and M.O.H Participated in the Inauguration Ceremony.

JAPAN - Tsunami Relief Effort

RCCR is Coordinating a Relief Effort in Japan via the Matsusaka Rotary Club in Japan - RI Dist 2630.

We are currently looking at providing monetary support towards the Rotary Club so that they may purchase the required relief items as needed.

If you CAN or would LIKE to help through our Rotary Club, please contact us ASAP.

Thank You

RCCR - JAPAN Tsunami Relief Effort Team

1st 100 Wells Completed!

The 1st 100 out of the 500 Wells Sponsored by Stretchline (Private) Limited, for De-Contamination due to the Floods have been successfully completed.

District - Batticaloa

DS Division - Vellavelli

GN Division - Porathivu

Tsunami in Japan

We would like to offer our thoughts and prayers to the people and victims of the Tsunami in Japan.

Acknowledgement - Stretchline!

We wish to Thank and Acknowledge the receipt of the following Cheques from Stretchline (Private) Limited towards the de-contaminating and cleaning of the 1st 500 wells in Kalmunai/ Batticaloa:

HSBC Cheque #'s - 048032 & 048033

Cleaning of 500 Wells!

RCCR together with Stretchline (Private) Limited will commence a Project to Clean & Purify 500 Wells in the Kalmunai/ Batticaloa areas that were contaminated due to the recent floods on Monday, 7th March 2011.

The 500 Wells will require an estimated 25 days to complete. We are grateful to Stretchline and its staff for the full sponsorship extended towards this Project.

Project estimate is LKR. 1.2 Million!

Update on Contributions Received

We have now reached LKR 3.35 Million in Donations and Pledges thanx to Rotarians and Friends of Rotary.

RCCR Releases More Funds to RCK

RCCR Flood Relief Effort Committee just authorized and released a further LKR 200,000/- to Rotary club of Kalmunai to purchase emergency relief items.

We felt the funds released to RCK would speed up relief efforts as sourcing and transporting from Colombo would delay our efforts by 2 days minimum, which we cannot afford to incur due to the urgency of the requirement!

Death toll rises!

The death toll due to the latest wave of floods has gone up to 16 while an estimated 1.2 million people had been affected and 172,535 people were displaced as of today.

- http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/9666-death-toll-goes-up.html

Update re. Floods from Rotary Club of Kalmunai

Pictures sent in by the Rotary Club of Kalmunai (RCK), who are actively coordinating on-site Relief Efforts in Kalmunai areas show the results of a sudden shower that resulted in the surrounding areas.

The submerged Jeep is the RCK vehicle used to distribute the Relief items, which according to RCK needed rescuing.

Current round of rains have resulted in many people being left homeless and in-need of urgent assistance. The rains have damaged and destroyed many retaining walls of lakes and damns releasing large volumes of water towards un-suspecting residents.

Sat Image Update

The above Sat image of Sri Lanka clearly shows the permanent cloud formation over the Island.

Temperatures range from a high of 31C to a low of 24C with specific areas in country dropping to much lower levels!

Storms and Thundershowers are forecasted for the next couple of days!

- www.weather.com

Relief Distribution at Valathapitty Refugee Camp

The Rotary Club of Kalmunai distributed Lunch Parcels, Mineral Water Bottles and Used Clothes for the Refugees accommodated in Valathapitty Vidyalayam. These peoples are displaced from Mallikaithivu, and Valathapitty low land areas.

Valthapitty is approximately 20Km from Kalmunai Town. RCK members generally pass through Sammanthurai, however, yesterday they we could not travel through Sammanthurai or through Malkampitty route due to floods. They reached this School through Akkaripathu, which is almost 60 Km from Kalmunai town.

More 350 Members from this Refugees Camp were benefitted by this relief distribution at Valathapitty Refugee Camp.

RCCR donated Mineral Water Bottles and Used Clothes towards the distribution at this Refugee Camp.

Floods reach dangerous level!

As of Friday, 04 February, 2011 "The flood situation in the country reached dangerous levels with the number of affected families increasing by over 100,000 within hours, bringing the total of affected families to 230,000, causing six deaths, official said.

The number affected stood at 100,000 late Thursday evening. Bad weather took its toll in 17 districts while it was reported that those affected were kept in 322 camps.

Spill gates were opened in all tanks in the Anurdhapura, Polonnaruwa, Batticaloa, Ampara, Vavuniya and Trincomalee Districts as almost all the tanks reached spill levels.

Director General Department of Irrigation G. G. Godaliyadha said that the Anurahapura and Polonnaruwa Districts posed the most danger as gushing waters of Nachchiduwa, Padaviya and Rajangana and several other tanks inundated all low lands in Anuradhapura while many areas in Polonnaruwa was also submerged. Medirigriya area was also submerged as the gates of Kavudulla tanks were opened." (YP)

http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/9551-floods-reach-dangerous-level.html

Thank you Stretchline!

Stretchline (Private) Limited - Sri Lanka, together with their Staff have come forward towards the complete sponsorship of cleaning 500 wells in Batticaloa/ Kalmunai.

RCCR would also like to acknowledge the receipt of Clothing and Mineral Water Bottles by their staff towards the flood affected in the East Coast of Sri Lanka.

Thank You!

Acknowledgement - SIRC

RCCR would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank the Stockholm International Rotary Club (SIRC) for their valued contribution of LKR. 33,380/- towards the flood relief efforts of our Club.

Donation of Rations at Pandirippu

The Rotary Club of Kalmunai distributed Dry rations and Bed Sheets for the Flood affected people from Pandiruppu Tsunami village around 2 Km from Kalmunai town.

This is also a small village Constructed for Tsunami affected people who lived 65m from the sea.

These houses were constructed in very low-land paddy fields after filling earth to a minimum required level. During the flood all the villages were displaced and had to be accommodated in a refugee camp at Pandiruppu.

Around 36 families benefitted by this relief distribution at Pandiruppu Tsunami Village. RCCR contributed Bed Sheets towards this effort.