Clinical research in the Department of Cell & Molecular Therapies
Clinical research in the Department of Cell & Molecular Therapies at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
The Cure The Future Foundation (Cell & Gene Trust) conducts ground-breaking clinical research in the Department of Cell & Molecular Therapies at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital led by Professor John Rasko AO. Specifically, as a public institution we are committed to providing broad services to all eligible patients exemplified by specific project related to various cancers and genetic diseases (that can affect any family in NSW, Australia).
Specifically, one of our particular interests is in treating patients who suffer from Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Anaemia. This is of an immediate and special relevance to the Italian community and other communities from the Mediterranean region and South East Asia. Every year over 60,000 people are born with severe thalassaemia worldwide – making it one of the most common genetic diseases. We are working to provide a cure for this disease by harnessing the power of gene and cell therapy in an experimental clinical trial in collaboration with a clinical and biotech team in the USA. Thalassaemia and sickle cell anaemia are a group of inherited disorders that can cause severe anaemia (low red blood cells) due to abnormal production of haemoglobin. Because haemoglobin delivers life-giving oxygen to our bodies, people born with these diseases often require lifelong blood transfusions and treatments to prevent complications. Some people with severe thalassaemia may be cured with a bone marrow transplant – but less than 20% of patients are eligible and long-term side effects can be significant.
See website for more information and to Donate
http://www.curethefuture.org/donation/
All Souls Learning Centre – the Spean Chreav Village in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
The fifth anniversary of the All Souls Learning Centre – Cambodia (The Centre) that was built in less than 20 days was celebrated in early February 2022. The Centre survived floods, except for loss of wooden desks and seats – these were replaced with plastic chairs and tables, in 2017, 2019 & 2020, but it was forced to relocate due to road widening, Yes, it was relocated in 2021 to a new location that is higher and less prone to floods. The original building was dismantled and transported including the floor tiles to it’s new location and rebuilt.
On average, The Centre is teaching 60 plus children annually, lower in 2020 & 2021 due to Covid-19. Unfortunately, there is not a lack of children wanting to attend.
Monthly, the Centre recognizes the top 4 to 5 highest achievers. The students travel from various neighbouring villages. The Centre also provides the children’s families with food parcels when funds permit.
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One fact, there is not a lack of children wanting to attend. We have added more photos to the gallery!”
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All Souls Learning Centre is a project which is still in its early stages of development. Our aim is to successfully build an English learning centre for the children of the Spean Chreav Village in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This beautiful district is known for its many tourist attractions, specifically the ancient temple ruins of Angkor Wat. This icon attracts over 1.2 million tourists per year. When you look past the beauty of this district, you will find starving children, Slave labour, child sex workers, government corruption and minimal funding for educational institutions. In this district it is common practice for ten year olds to leave school in order to work out in fields or in the streets to help earn an income for their families. Due to their lack of education they then get stuck in a vicious cycle of poverty.
Education in Cambodia receives very little funding from their government. English is only ever taught in a private institution where families can afford to pay for these lessons. Those who do not have the opportunity to learn English are less likely to have a stable job and hence find it difficult to escape this poverty cycle.
The All Souls learning centre aims to provide English lessons for up to 60 students per year. This will hopefully increase the number of Cambodians working in their local tourism industries and break the language barriers which currently exist.
Our current running costs include monthly rental of the building/school (building costs were paid by the founder of the All Souls Learning Centre.), monthly wages for the teacher and cost of teaching aids and consumables. All donations will assist to ensure this centre achieves and exceeds it’s target of teaching up to 60 students per year.
The cost of running this school for one month is EQUAL to 73 cups of Cappuccino coffees (Cost based on “How much is a cup of Starbucks coffee in 8 cities around the world. – 2017).
The chicken/eggs program began in 2020 to provide eggs for food and for hatching.
A supporter of the Centre began a program with the assistance of Ho to provide selected families in the Spean Chreav Village with 4 chickens and a chicken pen so they can raise the chickens for eggs and to hatch chicks. The selected families get to keep all eggs for food and to hatch chicks. The families keep 30% of the chicks and give the Centre the other 70% so the program can pay for some of the running costs of the Centre and to provide more families with chickens and a chicken pen. The school and the chicken distribution are supervised locally by a young local named Ho. Ho communicates with “L” the founder of the Centre.
The Centre also has chicken pens on site for raising chickens and chicks and allows the children to care for the chickens and chicks. The eggs at the Centre are distributed to the students families or sold to support the Centre.
Please , consider drinking 1 or more less cups per day and improve your health and donate some of your savings to help keep the school running.
Increasing the number of Girls and Boys at the Esiteti Primary School located outside Amboseli National Park in Kenya
This school is one of a number of schools supported by the Land and Life Foundation. Follow this link for more details regarding the Esiteti Primary school and the Land and Life Foundation.
Two new classrooms were added in late 2017 to accommodate more girls and boys.
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All children have the right to an education that will give them some hope. But again, the limiting factor is MONEY. Remember that, Education, leads to better health and greater opportunity not only for the children but also for their families.
The Esiteti Primary school also benefits occasionally from tourist who provide goods for students under the Pack for a Purpose – make a difference around the world by using available space in your luggage to provide supplies to the communities you visit.
Milk To Health Project – Maasai community Kenya.
The milk to health project began at the start of Covid19, when members of two Maasai communities told us they could not sell their cattle due to lock downs, so M and I decided we could buy 6 of their milking cows as long as they cared for them and distributed the milk to the needy in their communities. So we made an offer to our 2 contacts and got a contract together based on Trust.
From August 2022 our current program changed to allow some of the funds from the sale of new calves to expand the program to include payment of school fees for 5 girls and 5 boys, the purchase of feed for the dry season..
As at April 2022 we now have 30 plus dairy cows and calves in six Maasai communities, namely, Selenkei, Esiteti, Limaroro, Inchilishil, Olorika and Inchurra. The aim is for selected families to HELP themselves and others.
Visit PackForAPurpose.org and enjoy your holidays even more when you deliver a parcel to these beautiful children around the world.
How you can I help?
By donating using this Donate button below OR by donating at the Land and Life Foundation website as per the link above OR by donating at the Pack for a Purpose website and by planning to Pack for a Purpose when you next travel.
Thank you in advance for your kind generosity.
Please Donate now
100% of your donations goes directly to the projects – there are no Admin charges.
Missionaries Of The Poor (MOP) – Naga city – in the Philippines
This missionary is one of many missionaries around the world run by MOP – refer their website: https://www.missionariesofthepoor.org/about-mop/
The apostolate of the MOP includes shelter and care for homeless, abandoned and the unwanted children, disabled and elderly, and to provide social and pastoral assistance to the indigent and needy.
We support an Australian lady who saves to purchase bedding, school aids and books, food etc for an orphanage located in Naga in the Philippines that provides care and living skills for some 150 children. They also, do home visits, hospital visits and distribute food to local communities.
You can donate via our website or go directly to https://www.missionariesofthepoor.org/our-missions/philippines-naga-city/ and click on the donate button.
We hope you can assist us by donating (use donate button below) part of your savings from using No Fees Gym.
Feeding the homeless – Sydney Australia.
We support a number of volunteer groups who provide meals, clothes and other support for the homeless including many “rough sleepers”, that is, people who sleep on the streets.
Average cost of each meal is approximately $4.50, yes, not much more than a can of soft drink or a cup of coffee.
Please consider a small donation monthly, refer to the Savings calculator and other notes.
By not consuming a couple of cups of coffee and soft drinks each month you can improve your health, increase your savings and help to reduce poverty and homelessness in our world.
Thank you for your kind donation.
Please Donate now
100% of your donations goes directly to the projects – there are no Admin charges.
Human Rights Violations
FGM must be stopped immediately by the villages who may claim it is traditional. What sort of tradition is it that tortures fellow human beings or dominates them. This is a man defined “tradition” of torture and domination. It must be stopped immediately!!!
FGM – “It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children” who are also, human beings and should be protected by adults NOT abused or tortured by them.
The warriors and elders in the villages should be protecting the girls and the women from FGM a form of torture and other traditions that dominate or discrimates against any member of their community and other communities in their region.
World Health Organization (WHO) Fact sheet
Introduction is below. For the full fact sheet click on http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/
Female genital mutilation
Updated January 2018
Key facts
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
- The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women.
- Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of newborn deaths.
- More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where FGM is concentrated1.
- FGM is mostly carried out on young girls between infancy and age 15.
- FGM is a violation of the human rights of girls and women.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
The practice is mostly carried out by traditional circumcisers, who often play other central roles in communities, such as attending childbirths. In many settings, health care providers perform FGM due to the erroneous belief that the procedure is safer when medicalized1. WHO -strongly urges health professionals not to perform such procedures.
Help to stop ABUSES of all kinds to fellow Human beings.
Article 3 – The right to live free
As stated in The universal Declaration of Human Rights .
“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and secuirty of person”
So please Speak out now and Stop IMMEDIATELY the various ABUSES on innocent human beings, namely :
1) Child abuse – including:
A) Sexual abuse
B) Gang viloence
C) Child labour
D) Child soldiers
E) Bullying
2) Domestic violence – Stop now!!
Peace and harmony within the home is destroyed by domestic violence. Domestic violence generates no benefits and submits all members of family to this unnecessary violence.
3) FGM – female genital mutilation – Stop NOW!!
This procedure / torture provides no known benefits to anyone!
But, there are many known problems for the girls and women refer the World Health Organisation (WHO) – fact sheet above.
FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person’s rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death.
4) BULLYING of any form to any human being.
This can be verbal, non-verbal, physical and now by social media.
Parents and adults should be aware of the children’s habits and communications on a daily basis including social media so that they can assist the children on how to handle such acts of bullying and prevent act of self harm as a result of such actions.
5) Violence and sexual abuse of fellow humans.
This occurs at work, home or in public areas. Such events should always be reported if we are to rid society of the perpetrators of such acts.
6) Unsafe working conditions.
Generally with the aim of increasing profits for the business owner. Often occurs where there is high levels of labour and when the labour force targeted lacks the average education standards.Workers should report unsafe equipment and working conditions to protect themselves and fellow team members.
7) Discrimination of any kind, especially on the grounds of race, age or sex.
This can occur at home, the workplace, within a community or in public.
Such events should always be reported if we are to rid society of the perpetrators of such acts.
Please, help to stop ABUSES of all kinds to fellow human beings. Report all incidents to the appropriate government bodies and write, phone and visit your local member of Government asking for support to eliminate all acts of abuse.
Thank you for your support.
The No Fees Gym Team
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