Brief summary of the Musoma Charity Dinner held on May 29,2 015 at the Imperial Hotel, London

1. Fundraising dinner @ Imperial Hotel
18:00 Cash bar opens. Sponsors Stands
19:15 Introduction, talk, toast and grace by Manny Vasant
MBE
19:30 Dinner
20:30 Talk by Graham McClure and Clare Lowe –
Go MAD video
20:45 Auction
11:00 Carriages

2. Working for the “Greater Good” of Musoma with
•Tanzania Development Trust (Registered Charity UK)
•Go Mad (Make a Difference) in Tanzania
•Lake Victoria Disability Centre LVDC (Registered Charity in Tanzania)
•Overseas Musomians

3. Imperial Hotel London WC1

4.  London Deanery under the helm of Dean Liz
Jones who allowed me indulge in this venture
between 2007-2014 during my office with her.
 My colleagues , VT advisers, Trainers and VTs
who have contributed generously
 Current PADs and SADs who have continued
to support this venture which is NOT part of
London Deanery

5.  Graham Mc Clure Project Manager
 Pauline Callens Go Make difference in Tanzania
 Claire Lowe
 Vicky Royle

7. • Musoma reunion 2002 was the inspiration
• Since 2006 this VT charity walk has raised
substantial sponsorship.
Thanks to you and your predecessors

8. Musoma

10. Father 1960s
My younger brother and mother
Brothers 50s

13.  Overall, 1 in 11 people
in Tanzania are
disabled.
 In Musoma the figure
rises to 1 in 7!
impairment

14.  The rural communities
of Mara continue to
suffer from abject
poverty.
 Ill health caused by
malnutrition
 No affordable health
service, like the NHS.

15.  P= Project followed by number
 Summary for each project with relevant photos
will follow

16. P1 Refurbished Iringo School Toilet block and Library £ 9,250
P2 Provided electircity and furniture to Mukendo School £9,250
P3 Refurbished Dental Unit in Musoma Hospital £5,000
P4 Started Resuscitation Unit in Musoma Hospital £25,000 (plus local
funds)
P5 Extended Lake Victoria Disability Centre (LVDC) £25,000
P6 Supplied books for a library Anglican Church £500
P7 Part funded vehicle for LVDC for transporting disabled people £5,000
P8 Part funded vehicle for GOMad (Anglican Church initiative) to
transport sick children from villages to a new dispensary £3,000
P9 In 2012 Feb we have purchased a 7.5 acre plot for the new LVDC .
Funds collected by me £30,000. Total spend £150K with other partners
ongoing.
P10 Donations to build accommodation for volunteers £5,000
P11 In 2014 we are supplying dental equipment for Shirati and LVDC
£10,000 (costs are shared with a charity based in Holland)

17.  Personal donations
 Dental Trade
 Dental Profession
 Charity Walk along River Thames 5 miles in
June with London University Dental VTs
 Patients at my practice
 Anglo Asian Odontological Group (Dental)
 Central London Dental Study Group

18.  Annual event of Thames Charity Walk since 2007 raised over £65,000
 Central London Dental Study Group donated £25,000- most of which
was my unclaimed reimbursements of several years
 Dr Arti Patel (one of my VTs)) climbed Mt Kilimajaro in 2010 and
collected £6,000!
 Colleagues who have foregone their lecture fees and donated it to the
Musoma cause. Most recent examples are Drs Eddie Lynch, Richard
Porter, Wyman Chan apart from myself £1,000 each.
 Tariq Ashraf , dentist in Wimbledon £1,000 (May 2014)
 Talat Algusane ex VT has donated this portable unit to GOMAD worth
about £2K

27. Rx requires:
Good oral hygiene
Metronidazole 200mg TDS
3/7 (for which dentist
earns 1.2 UDAs approx £30
Symptoms subside in 48hrs
Features:
Aka trench mouth, Vincent’s
angina.
Reverse architecture
Punched out papillae
Fetor oris
Anaerobic spirochaetal infection
Precursor to cancrum oris

28. The reported predisposing factors include:
•unsafe drinking water
•Malnutrition (particularly A Vit and B)
• dehydration and poor oral hygiene
•proximity to unkempt livestock
•recent illness
•an immunodeficiency disease, including AIDS.

29.  Babies die to lack of oxygen supply and other
essential equipment
 Until 3 yrs ago 2 oxygen concentrators were
available for the whole population of 40,000 plus
(no piped oxygen)
 Power cuts are frequent.
 In 2007, we donated 6 additional oxygen
concentrators and like number of suction
machines and special beds. Since then the
government has built a much bigger Resuc unit
using the equipment we provided.

30.  BDA Southern Counties was involved in refurbishing
the dental clinic in the same hospital (Musoma)
 During my visit, a recent émigré from India recited the
story about his nine month old baby who died as there
was no oxygen machine

32. Resucitation Unit
Musoma Hospital
Co-ordinated by
Manny Vasant
and
Prem Kapoor

33. Plaque in the Resus Unit
Oxygen concentrators
And suction units
Defibrillator

34.  Overall, 1 in 11 people
in Tanzania are
disabled.
 In Musoma the figure
rises to 1 in 7!
impairment

35.  The rural communities
of Mara continue to
suffer from abject
poverty.
 Ill health caused by
malnutrition
 No affordable health
service, like the NHS.

37. - Teaches children woodwork, dressmaking,
knitting etc
- Provides daily training for students
- Teaches Sign language to deaf students, and
their friends and families.

41.  Oct 2008 visit to Musoma
 Dentists: Auriel Gibson, Keval
Shah, Manny Vasant
 Doctor: Kishor Vasant
 Builder: Hudson Cook
 Other helpers: Meena Vasant,
Fleur Batten, Sandra Cameron,
Gilbert Cameron, Lizzie
Cameron, Andie Lowstoft

43.  Encyclopedias
 Other books

57.  No one has claimed or has been paid for any
expenses (travelling or subsistence or any
other) i.e. each person pays his own way and
for everything and does free work!
 Therefore, 100% of donations go to the charity

58.  Yes we have made a big difference, albeit, to a
few people
 With your help, we can help many more

59.  Continue to raise funds to support LVDC
 Other needy groups in Musoma
 Support Go Mad in Tanzania projects
 To donate go to the following link

60. https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/mannyvasant
www.lakevictoriadisabilitycentre.org
www.musoma.com
www. gomakeadifference.co.uk/
www.mkvasant.co.uk

61.  In effect you have already helped by coming to
this event by about £7 per person (1/3rd
UDA)
 You can donate any number of UDAs by filling
in the form on your table for GOMAD
 You can volunteer to go to Musoma with
GOMAD
 You can donate any unwanted dental
instruments/equipment to Dental Stock
Xchange who will convert it into cash for
Musoma

62.  We are trying to link up with Bridge2aid which
a UK based charity started by Dr Ian Wilson
currently under the helm of DrMark Topley
 Ian and Mark are dentists from the UK
 Bridge2aid have done exemplary work in
Mwanza not only to reduce pain and suffering
but also train locals to do safe dentistry
 We are hoping they will bring this model to
Musoma