Dinner, Play Pumps, Speech Pathology & Audiology, and Clean Water for Ghana

Dinner at District 6 Restaurant

Thirteen of us had a great social evening at District 6 in Emmarentia last night.  It really was a fun evening and a good turn out, especially when you think so many people are still on holiday!

Play Pump

Many thanks to Brian Leech for sending this to The Ramble.

In 2011 Rotary Club of Rosebank Johannesburg, in conjunction with the following New York Rotary Clubs, Lake Mahopac, Carmel , Brewster, Patterson and Putnam Valley donated a PlayPump to Siyavuya Primary School in the Eastern Cape.

 

We have just done a maintenance trip to the school and replaced rods, forcehead rubbers, repaired the tap, replaced bobbin rubs, bolts, nuts and washers and patched the soil crete. 

All working well.  Thought you might like to see the pictures and know your donation is still being used.

Warm regards

Sandra 

Play Pumps 

Last Meeting

Last Friday was Good Friday so there was no meeting and I trust you all had wonderful Easter Weekend. The week before was a Business Meeting.

This Week

Wits Speech Pathology & Audiology Students on World Hearing Day 2016

 Two supporters of our Careers Day, Dr Karin Joubert & Dr Victor de Andrade of the Wits Dept of  Speech Pathology & Audiology, are our speakers this week. 

Approximately 12% of all South Africans are likely to present with a speech, language or hearing disorder. Communication disorders are experienced by people at any age in the lifetime.

The assessment and management of communication disorders may include the client, the family, other professionals and the community. Communication disorders range from mild to severe disabilities.

Speech-language therapy addresses speech and language problems, including articulation, voice, fluency, expressive and receptive language problems, as well as feeding and swallowing problems.

Audiologists test hearing using behavioural and electrophysiological measures. They manage hearing loss with hearing aids, cochlear implants and rehabilitation. They are also active in Deafness issues and education work. Audiologists also work with associated problems such as balance disorders and central auditory processing problems.

Speech Pathologists and Audiologists are involved in various aspects of communication sciences and disorders including

• Prevention
• Identification
• Assessment
• Treatment
• Counseling
• Education
• Consultation
• Research

Concerned with the urgent need for ear-and hearing care follow-up services after a hearing aid mission in 2012 at the Ndlovu Care Group clinic, Dr Karin Joubert, senior lecturer of the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology Department of the University of Witwatersrand, was invited to assess the situation at Elandsdoorn. Not long afterwards, in January 2014, The Ndlovu Wits Audiology Clinic became a reality when funding was granted for the implementation of the audiology project.

The Ndlovu Wits Audiology clinic uses its comprehensive resources and expertise to reduce the negative impact of hearing impairment on the health lifestyle and communicative abilities of hearing impaired individuals and their families through the:

·  prevention of the onset of ear and hearing problems with regular community education programmes on ear an hearing health;

·  early identification and management of ear and hearing problems by offering neonatal hearing screening services (at five clinics in the Elandsdoorn vicinity), school screening, ototoxicity monitoring of HIV/AIDS and TB patients of the NCG clinics as well as diagnostic assessments.

GRANT BRINGS CLEAN WATER TO THOUSANDS IN GHANA

Investing in clean water could save 2.5 million lives a year. We can't afford not to protect the world's water supply. Take action with Rotary to create access to clean water.

Worldwide, more than 748 million people live without access to clean water and at least 3,000 children die each day from diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe water. Rotary is working to change that. For example, members used a Rotary grant to drill more than 20 clean-water wells and to repair another 30 in villages across Ghana. The project also included education about and treatment of Buruli ulcer, a debilitating infection that if untreated can lead to disability and death. Nearly 70,000 people will benefit from this initiative.