APS Down School & Londrina Eye Hospital

         

On Saturday, 21/07 a team of doctors and staff from the main Londrina Eye Hospital - Hoftalon - were at APS Down School especially to provide assistance to the students from the institution and to the children's nursery annexed.

The First Looks Project, in its special edition commemorating the hospital´s 20nd anniversary, had the support of Sindióptica-Pr (Union of Retail Optical Material, Photography and Film of Paraná State), which organized the donation of frames and lenses for children .

  

    

Approximately 70 students were assisted. Students and their families are grateful for the wonderful work the hospital´s team has provided.

Kitchen Project is taking shape

The Industrial Kitchen project we are developing in an association between the local brazilian Rotary Club (Alvorada e Londrina SUL - D4710) and Rotary Club of Armidale Central, Australia (D9650), is already taking shape.

The photos below show the kitchen installation in progress, which was planned for students with Down´s syndrome. The pictures show also physiotherapy items and educational toys, which were included in the project since they were lost in the floods of October 2011.

The kitchen cabinets installation is not complete yet ... We will keep you up to date.

Area will be the bench for the kitchen-school classes

First cabinets being installed

The cabinet-maker

Now with granite top

Industrial oven

Oven and vertical freezer

Industrial 8 L Blender

Cooker industrial 6 flames still in the packed

Radios, materials for physiotherapy and microwave 31 L

Educational toys

 We are waiting for the delivery of educational toys, physiotherapy and equipments from other suppliers, which were already ordered.

How did the project start?

After the flood that devastated the APS Down School (Brazil) in October 2011, we contacted the Rotary Club of Armidale Central, Australia (where I participated in the Youth Exchange Program in 1993) and presented the difficulties the Down School was going through, because they had lost many equipments and educational materials.

Rotary Club of Armidale Central took the initiative to develop an international project to help the school and the idea of ​​making a Industrial Kitchen emerged. The main idea was to install and fit the kitchen to accommodate Down Students, which could become a form of income to the school and the students.

APS Down School thanks the Rotary for such generosity!