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“Honouring a MEMORY… with a MISSION”
Sebastiano BazzoniChairman, Roberto Bazzoni Onlus
12 November 1999
24 people, 21 of whom were engaged in humanitarian
missions in Kosovo
Pristina, Kosovo
NO Survivors
Roberto Bazzoni
What would youhave done
in my place?
2 0 0 0
Kosovo 2000
“Our mission was harnessing the tragic energy born of personal grief/loss and carry on the vision of helping victims of the Kosovo conflict in need of orthopedic care.”
Rehabilitation centre built and equipped for disabled people
32 social workers trained to work in 11 centres
Continuing to offer support by providing medical salaries
Fulfilling…
Kazakhstan 2001
“Our mission is to reintegrate these children into their community once they become an adult, or at least to guarantee a dignified life to those who are unable to.”
A centre created as a ‘family home’ for disabled & abandoned children
Promoting & organising a fostering project
Fulfilling…
Multifunctional Centre project initiated to provide rehabilitation & education facilities
Democratic Republic of Congo 2003
“Our mission is to build and equip an operatingtheatre in the existing Yakamba hospital.”
Construction of the operating theatre completed
Equipping the operating theatre
Ongoing support
Fulfilling…
Zimbabwe 2002ZIMBABWE IS DYING OF AIDS
Every 4 in 10 people have AIDS A person dies of AIDS every MINUTE More than 1 in 5 children will be
orphaned in 2010 There are approx. 1 MILLION orphans
in Zimbabwe due to the AIDS pandemic
“Our mission is to collaborate with the Louisa Guidotti Hospital, which cares for 600 AIDS patients and children who have been orphaned, abandoned and abused.”
2002
Fulfilling…
2003
2004 600 patients under treatment & support of 200 mothers on the PMTCT PLUS programme…
400 patients under treatment
Provided medical treatment to 150 patients
By raising £100,000 tonight
= 200 additional mothers & their children under thePMTCT PLUS programme
2005…
Wouldn’t it be great if we succeed?
Wouldn’t it be great if we could bringthe total number of lives saved
to 1000?
We operate with no overheads or middlemen
We visit the locations where
the funds are being utilised to save lives
“No funding is wasted”
So many people, real people whom “we” have met,
Are kept alive Can go back to their families and work
Because of YOU!
It can all be betterIt will all be better
