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Impact of Giving

We want to celebrate the difference each funded project can make to the lives of so many people living in challenging circumstances. In exemplifying the impact of these projects, we can learn, share knowledge and inspire others to support our work.

Hope for Girls and Women Tanzania

Funding provided to HGWT will empower girls and women in maintaining menstrual hygiene and dignity through producing their own supplies of washable, reusable sanitary towels. Currently there are no sanitary towels leading to embarrassment and infection risk (e.g. from using leaves, rags and even dried manure). Many women need to take time off from work or domestic duties, and girls stop attending school each month. This has a significant negative economic impact for the women and negative educational impact for the girls, thereby further reducing their efforts to become more empowered. This project will reduce the economic impact on women and increase girls’ school attendance, which improves their overall life chances. The World Bank states that for every year a girl stays in school, her future income increases by 10-20%.

Kids Operating Room (KidsOR)

KidsOR is a global health charity focused entirely on the provision of high quality, safe surgical services for children in low- and middle-income countries. Our donation will support the training of South Sudan’s first paediatric surgeon, as part of a longer-term plan to train four paediatric surgeons in the country. All four surgeons will be trained at Baylor College of Medicine in Lilongwe, Malawi under Dr Bip Nandi, before returning to work at the first dedicated OR for children, within Al Saba Children’s Hospital, Juba.

Glasgow City Mission

Our donation to Glasgow City Mission's Overnight Welcome Centre has funded medical training for Centre staff, along with supporting a much-needed counselling service from Healing for the Heart:

“Gem’s interactions with guests have been so worthwhile, particularly our international guests. It can be really easy to see a language barrier and decide not to make an effort, however Gem took the time to use apps and google translate in order to communicate. Guests really opened up to him. Our English-speaking guests responded well too and appreciated having time to sit and talk. This has often been hard for them as they have shared some traumatic stories.”

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Playlist for life
A Scottish music and dementia charity operating throughout the UK.
CBU Dental Community Outreach

Promoting and improving the oral health and general wellbeing of the vulnerable population in Zambia.

Finding Your Feet

Providing lifeline support to amputees and those born with limb absence throughout Scotland.

Transplant Links
Providing long-term training and support to surgeons, doctors and nurses of nascent transplant units in low- and middle-income countries.
Projects that have received funding in 2020
Glasgow City Mission towards the Winter Night Shelter

This project in Glasgow offers emergency accommodation to homeless individuals over the winter months. The team provide support to guests for housing, social support other services. Almost 600 people used the shelter last winter. Nurse practitioners from the local health clinics attend the shelter in the mornings to provide on-site medical care for injuries and break down the barriers that prevent homeless individuals from accessing health care.

Teapot Trust for Art Therapy in Paediatric Rheumatology

The project provides art therapy to children and young people with Rheumatic conditions at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow. This is achieved through one-to-one art psychotherapy and open group art therapy. The art therapy interventions contribute to the mental health and wellbeing of patients by offering a safe space to express feelings about their condition.

Dentaid

The project focuses on the next phase of the dental hospital refurbishment. This will help with continuing to improve the clinical infrastructure that supports delivery of safe and effective dental care for patients.

Eiger Music for the Fit-as-a-Fiddle Project

Eiger Music is a Glasgow community based charity working to increase the wellbeing, community cohesion and reduce isolation and loneliness through music workshops and ‘learning by ear’ opportunities for those living in difficult circumstances.

King’s College London for supporting the delivery of Primary Trauma Care Training in Kongo Central, DRC

The two-day Primary Trauma Care course covers the management of injured patients, taking into account resource constraints experienced in low and middle-income countries. Training on this course empowers health care professionals working in resource-limited settings to deliver initial emergency care with limited resources.

Kings College London Hope foundation end report 2021
PAMIS for PAMIS Wellbeing Project

PAMIS Wellbeing project makes a positive difference to the lives of unpaid carers of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). The project provides access to high quality talking therapies and inclusive/accessible wellbeing activities. Unpaid carers of people with PMLD face very challenging living circumstances. This therefore specifically targets unpaid PMLD carers.

PAMIS funding breakdown
Projects that have received funding in 2018
Glasgow City Mission towards the Winter Night Shelter

This project in Glasgow offers emergency accommodation to homeless individuals over the winter months. The team provide support to guests for housing, social support other services. Almost 600 people used the shelter last winter. Nurse practitioners from the local health clinics attend the shelter in the mornings to provide on-site medical care for injuries and break down the barriers that prevent homeless individuals from accessing health care.

Medics Against Violence for MAV’s Mindfulness Project

Glasgow based Medics Against Violence was founded by healthcare workers dealing with the consequences of violence every day. As part of their Schools Programme, MAV will run a mindfulness workshop for teachers working with young people in areas where violence and its health consequences are apparent. This enables teachers to introduce meditation as a calming classroom activity.

Eiger Music for the Fit-as-a-Fiddle Project

Eiger Music is a Glasgow community based charity working to increase the wellbeing, community cohesion and reduce isolation and loneliness through music workshops and ‘learning by ear’ opportunities for those living in difficult circumstances.

ReSurge Africa for Noma Flap and Microsurgery Training in Accra, Ghana

ReSurge Africa is a Scottish charity led by surgeons who bring training and skills to the medical community primarily in West Africa. This project will train up to 30 surgeons from across the region in micro surgery techniques, particularly to benefit patients living with the severe disfigurements as a result of Noma.

Diabetic Foot Management Training in Malawi

As part of the College’s ongoing partnership work in Malawi a new course for health workers will help them identify and address the problems of the diabetic foot, improving outcomes and reducing the need for surgery in areas where access to facilities is highly limited.

Vine Trust for a Volunteer Physician to Support Outreach Healthcare in Amazonian Peru

The Vine Trust is an international charity based in Leith, Scotland. It delivers medical projects, including a clinic ship visiting Amazonian Peru. This grant supports the costs of one volunteer physician to participate in a 2019 expedition. The 2018 expeditions supported around 180,000 patients.

King’s Kongo Central Partnership Safer Surgery Training

This grant supports UK volunteers to train 27 health workers from across disciplines in safer surgery and to further train 12 of these health workers to be trainers themselves so that they can continue to promote safer surgery across this area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This project is a partnership with King's College London.