Hi,

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Kindest regards, Stephen

Stevenage Grange RC, District 1260, England

Hi,

For those looking for a case study that to help 'sell' the benefits of TRF matching grant support for your projects, you might care to look at this link http://www.roisight.org/Downloads/roitrfcasestudy1.pdf  <http://www.roisight.org/Downloads/roitrfcasestudy1.pdf>

It demonstrates how a small contribution by Rotary Clubs, can generate a significant return ... in this case by a factor of sixteen ... but that is exceptional. That this was possible is of course due to fellow Rotarians, the Blindness Prevention Donor Advised Fund, as well as The Rotary Foundation itself.

By way of a reminder, if you are new to the power of TRF Matching Grants, and wish to learn more on how to submit a successful qualifying project application, take a look at this simple guide www.roisight.org/MG/mgnovicesguidenov07.pdf
<http://www.roisight.org/MG/mgnovicesguidenov07.pdf>

Best wishes, Stephen, Stevenage Grange RC, District 1260, England 

Hi,  you can now download the latest leaflet direct from this link www.roisight.org/Downloads/FlyerMar08web.PDF This reflects ROI's heightened focus of coupling your donation with a matching grant project to provide a better return on your investment

ROI has progressed from its earlier focus of simply mass screeing peoples in remote locations, to funding earlier screeing, treatment and / or other appropriate preventative measures, thanks to the Rotary Foundation (TRF).

Best wishes, Stephen

This project, embraces 4 Clubs, 3 Districts and the Blindness Prevention Donor Advised Fund to provide eye and dental care equipment, as well as funding some 50 cataract operations in India. For details see  http://www.matchinggrants.org/grant965.html

Best wishes, Stephen

Dear fellow Rotarians,

RIBI President Peter Offer presented 100 ROI ophthalmoscopes to Claire Hicks, CEO of  the IMPACT Foundation, and daughter of Sir John Wilson, founder of IMPACT and Sightsavers International, at the RIBI Annual Conference last week. They are for use in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, The Phillipines  and India.

For full story please visit: www.roisight.org/Downloads.impact0407.pdf

If you wish to host a qualifying eye-care TRF Project do please visit www.roisight.org/main/page17cfp.html.

If you are UK based and having difficulty importing equipment into India, please do contact me for assistance under the Indo-UK Bi-lateral Agreement for charitable purposes.

Best wishes, Stephen

Good day all,

A copy of April's Rotary Today article is available from this link www.roisight.org/Downloads/Rotarytodayapr07.pdf

Best wishes, Stephen

Dear fellow Rotarians and friends,

ROI has now been restyled the Rotarians Ophthalmic Initiative to better reflect that it is about helping to make blindness history, and not just about shipping equipment, as some have perceived.

Could potential host Clubs/Districts please take on board, that following a recent experience, linked matching grant opportunities will only be brokered when the host Club and/or District is prepared to take action to encourage and make available the low cost, award winning, pen sized, Optyse, or equivalent product to mid level staff in remote locations.  The Optyse has been specifically invented to support screening by less qualified people in remote heartlands of developing countries, and not just hospitals in cities, town and townships.

We are delighted to say that in a short period of time since we announced the TRF dimension, ROI is being approached to help establish new TRF Matching Grant opportunities to support surgery & other eye-care treatments. We are working hard on that to publish completed profiles of need.

Whilst there are so many deserving causes, would potential applicants please note that ROI cannot support non-sight enabling projects.

We need also to advise that potential applicants should feel comfortable in meeting our one and only condition, reproduced here for convenience from the ROI website … Where an ROI supported TRF grant project is being put together, following a needs assessment, we expect that 10% to 20% of the project value will be applied to make the Optyse™, or equivalent, available to trained people, living or working in remote locations, to undertake preventative general health & eye-care screening programmes.

If you are comfortable with that, and wish to develop an ROI supported matching grant project, we would love to hear from you and help you achieve your goal.

With best wishes,

Stephen, Stevenage Grange RC, District 1260

www.roisight.org

Following an enquiry through HANDS, and the kind cooperation of the IMPACT Foundation, the low cost and lens-free Optyse^TM can be viewed by those able to get to Manila after 25^th February. Please contact

Dr. Florentino Solon,

Chairman, IMPACT Foundation Philippines,

c/o Nutrition Center of The Philippines,

P.O. Box 1858, Makati City, Metro Manila.

Tel:  +63 2818 7397

Fax: +63 2818 7403

Email:  ncpsolon@...

Delighted to advise that the Rotarians Ophthalmoscope Initiative (ROI) has been developed to assist Clubs and Districts wishing to pull together an eligible Rotary Foundation (TRF) eye-care / treatment matching grant project.

ROI was originally established to provide a simple to use mass screening ophthalmoscope for use in remote locations. The simplicity of this low cost, pen sized, lens-free Optyse^TM enables not only ophthalmologists & optometrists but also eye care workers, ophthalmic nurses, ophthalmic medical assistants and aid volunteers to obtain an immediate view of the red reflex and fundus (retina).

Its mission is to encourage all medical personnel and eye-care workers in developing countries to feel comfortable carrying and using this unique diagnostic tool, in the same way they would a thermometer.

So if you are a Club that needs funds to undertake cataract operations, eye-care equipment or supplies, or a potential international funding partner, and would like to be added to our ROI matching grants project data base, do please contact me.

For a worked matching grant example providing a 1200% return please have a look at www.roisight.org/page17cfp.html

Many thanks,

Stephen, Stevenage Grange Rotary Club, District 1260

stephen@...

(a worked example)

Dear friends in Rotary,

I have been approached, by Binod Khaitan, to find local partners for a substantial, $15k+ matching grant application.

Binod is Chairman - Rotary Leadership Institute Eastern India & Nepal, & Regional Vice Chairman - RLI South Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka) Visit.

Binod has provided a list of Rotary or Rotary supported Hospitals in the District, as well as potential supporting Rotary Clubs in District 3290. This is available from this link

If your Club or District is interested in partnering the opportunity to provide simple to use, lens-free ophthalmoscopes, engraved "Donated by Rotarians", and help make blindness history for so many, please do contact  me in the first instance.

Many thanks,

Stephen, Stevenage Grange RC, District 1260

stephen@...  www.roisight.org www.sgrc.org.uk

A happy New Year to all,

ROI is pleased to announce the release of CFP, following agreement by V2020UK's International Committee.

CFP looks to bring the impressive array of voluntary eye-care programmes conducted in less developed countries to a wider global audience. It is open to all service clubs, individuals, Institutions and other organisations.

CFP and activities will be mapped and tracked between now and World Sight Day on 11^th October 2007, to showcase & provide an opportunity to support a range of practical humanitarian programmes, and sight awareness activities, in the hope that collectively we can help make blindness history.

Following our pre-release statement (4^th December), we are pleased that some 90 individuals and organisations have dipped into the relevant web page to find out more.

Details of the Programme with a word based Application form are now available from www.roisight.org/Downloads/ROICFP-introJan07.doc

With best wishes, Stephen

Stevenage Grange RC, District 1260 www.roisight.org  

We need your help please. We know that well over 1,000 attempted downloads of the ROI video have been made, in over 40 countries/regions since its release in November, but we don't know what you thought of it.  If you have already downloaded the ROI Video we would be most grateful if you would provide some feedback on its relevance to your Club's interests.  Good or bad, an email to stephen@... or through this list server, would be most appreciated.

Will this be converted into donations? The response level in the first few weeks has greatly exceeded expectation, but we have no knowledge of whether that might be converted into donations. With nearly 24% of visitors book-marking the web site as a favourite this month, I guess they are potential supporters / donors out there.

 One of the challenges of projects such as this is managing cash flow & knowing when to order each  batch of ophthalmoscopes – outlay £12,500. So if your Club is considering making a donation, either in support of IMPACT or more generally, or has agreed to do so but has yet to `order' we would be most grateful for an indication of your interest, in terms of numbers of potential units, and when (which month) your donation might be expected.   That way we can ensure that we have stock to place your donated units with the eye-care charities without delay, and can credit you on the web site.

Those with broadband wishing to view the easy-stream video can still do so via www.roisight.org/Downloads/roishow-1.5mbps.wmv If you do not have broadband you might care to view it via the animated PowerPoint version available through the website.

Thanks for your help in anticipation.

With best wishes for the New Year,

Stephen, Stevenage Grange RC, District 1260

www.roisight.org

Dear friends and colleagues,

Those with an interest in preventable blindness initiatives may wish to read the latest article on ROI, published in this month's Rotary Today. A copy may be downloaded from www.roisight.org/Downloads/Rotarytodaydec06.pdf 

The article is supported by an audio narrated by the international novelist Ken Follett to introduce the accompanying 10 minute video, featuring our Ex PM Sir John Major, is available from www.roisight.org/Downloads/roishow-1.5mbps.wmv

Best wishes to all,

Stephen

Stevenage Grange RC, District 1260

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Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 2:08 PM

Subject: Re: [roisight] World Sight Day 2007 - CFP

hi

i would like to register for the for all the avoidable blindness program like vision 20020 etc.

Pleae keep me informed.

RTN. PP ROHIT JERAJANI,

CHAIRMAN AVOIDABLE BLINDNESS RESOURCE GROUP,
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Dear friends,

An opportunity for all engaged in prevenatble sight loss programmes in developing countries to gain recogntion and support on a wider stage.

Subject to agreement by Vision 2020 UK,  other global charities, RI interests  & colleagues, ROI will launch the Centennial Founders Programme, in support of World Sight Day 2007 in the New Year.

For further details visit www.roisight.org/main/page17.html or email cfp@...

Best wishes, Stephen

Dear friends,

Delighted to say that the new video has been downloaded around the globe over 500 times  since its launch just 3 weeks ago.

If you haven't viewed this 10 minute video yet, and need something tangible to show your Club the direct link to the easystream version is www.roisight.org/Downloads/roishow-1.5mbps.wmv

Best wishes, Stephen

A Windows Media Player presentation of the Rotarians Ophthalmoscope Initiative (ROI) is now available for viewing, thanks to Craig Fisher, our District 1260 Webmaster

A low resolution version can be viewed from this link http://www.roisight.org/Downloads/roishow-512kbps.wmv

A higher resolution version, for those with Broadband speeds above 1mbps can be obtained from this link http://www.roisight.org/Downloads/roishow-1mbbps.wmv

Best wishes, Stephen

Stevenage Grange Rotary Club, District 1260

Greetings from Stevenage Grange RC, here in the UK.

Delighted to announce that the Club has today issued a Press Release announcing its first Chrismas Appeal to help save sight, lives & livelyhoods for millions in developing countries.

You can get a copy of the release, either by visiting www.roisight.org  or directly from this link www.roisight.org/Downloads/donate4xmas

Best wishes, Stephen

On World Sight Day VISION 2020: THE RIGHT TO SIGHT supporters and
members will work together to raise awareness of this massive global
public health issue, and of the simple, known solutions that exist
to tackle it, if the will, and the passion for action are mobilised.

Please join hundreds of organisations and institutions worldwide in
marking World Sight Day 2006. Information and materials such as
video clips, posters and information leaflets will be available from
the global VISION 2020 website www.v2020.org or by emailing
communications@....

Do ask members of your Club to consider supporting `Sign up for
Sight', available from the ROI web site www.roisight.org . One way
of marking your concern and support is of course to arrange a public
awareness programme to highlight the dual benefits that a donation
to ROI will bring: Creating faster diagnosis of eye and related life
threatening conditions … and freeing up resources to enable more
operations to be performed.

Thanks, Stephen Sypula
Stevenage Grange RC, District 1260, England

Dear all,
I notice that Yahoo was unable to post my attachment providing the
text for translation / checking. Have therefore loaded the Word doc
(92kb) into www.roisight.org/Downloads/Transscript.doc

Thanks, Stephen
Rotarians Ophthalmoscope Initiative

Please do visit www.roisight.org. Best wishes, Stephen