Make Some Change is an on-line platform which has just launched. It lets you give money to your choice of charitable projects – for free. Excitingly, Bairo Pite Clinic’s malnutrition program is one of 12 recipients which has been chosen to participate.
Have a look at the video – you may recognise me in there! Then go to www.makesomechange.com to get your 3 free Change coins, then drop them on the card that reads ‘Provide a day’s food for a malnourished child’.
This could be amazing for BPC and other charities but it’s success is dependent on people getting behind it. So it would be fabulous if everyone could do this and share the link with friends and contacts. Thanks!
Bairo Pite Clinic continues to use the funds from Spend it Well’s donors for its malnutrition program. One in five Timorese children have wasting from severe malnutrition and women travel long distances from remote parts of the country to bring their children to BPC for help. “Plumpy’Nut is a low cost peanut paste based supplement fortified with minerals and vitamins which is used for severely malnourished children and babies. It comes in plastic packs, from which the children can eat directly. These supplements provide a healthy rapid weight gain and can save children and babies from death. Spend it Well’s donors have funded a year’s worth of these supplements.
The oxygen concentrator funded by Spend it Well’s donors has arrived in Dili and has already swung into use at Bairo Pite Clinic. It looks small, but delivers a huge impact by allowing the clinic to provide oxygen to patients from new born babies right through to the elderly.
