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    Celebrating 20 years!

    20 years ago, IMPACT's vision for a floating hospital in Bangladesh became a reality - replicating the idea behind our hospital train in India but adapted to suit a country with 700+ rivers...

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    BBC Lifeline Appeal

    Watch our BBC Lifeline Appeal presented by Ade Edmonson. This special appeal focuses on our work in India, where our Lifeline Express hospital train takes healthcare to marginalised communities across the country.

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    Celebrating 20 years!

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    Child Health on the Tonlé Sap

    We are dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged children living on the Tonlé Sap Lake in northern Cambodia...

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    Tasty Team makes an IMPACT!

    Our UK programme, The Tasty Team, aims to prevent a range of potentially disabling diseases and serious conditions, by providing cooking sessions, budgeting help and general nutritional advice to improve the health and well being of children and families in Mid Sussex.

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Day two of the IMPACT East Africa Ear Surgery Camp in Mwingi, Kenya. 18 patients scheduled for surgery this week. ‘We hope to receive more patients tomorrow to end the year with more friends hearing better!’ #LoveYourEars 💙👂👂#ActionTodayToPreventDisabilityTomorrow #EarCamp2019 ... See MoreSee Less

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💙 Ways to support IMPACT this #GivingTuesday 💙
🎁 DONATE - £40 restores sight, hearing or movement to another person 🎁 SHOP ‘gifts that do good’ – our tea towel and water bottle raise vital funds 🎁 GIFT an IMPACT Gift Token 🎁 SEND IMPACT Christmas cards – no, it’s not too late! www.IMPACT.org.uk Thank you for your support #CharityGifts #EthicalGifts #GiftsThatDoGood #CharityTuesday ... See MoreSee Less

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🌱🌍 💚 ✊ #FridaysForFuture #GreenFriday Young people all over the world are leading the way when it comes to tackling #climatechange As part of IMPACT East Africa's school health programme, young volunteers are planting hundreds of trees in a deforested part of Kenya. Our £10 gift token makes a thoughtful gift for your loved one, as well as providing saplings for a class of children to nurture impact.org.uk/product/the-gift-of-tree-saplings/ ... See MoreSee Less

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Our IMPACT reusable water bottle costs £20 and includes a donation towards IMPACT's water projects in Africa and Asia - and of course every refill reduces the demand for polluting plastics 🌍💦💙http://IMPACT.org.uk/product/water-

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The Lifeline Express hospital train has served 11 locations across India this year, treating 112,000+ people. A publicity campaign alerts rural communities that the 'magic train' is on its way - adverts on TukTuks help spread the word 💙#TakingTheHospitalToThePeople

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IMPACT Gift Tokens make a heart-warming gift. Starting from just £10 you could provide a safe birth for a mother & baby; a gaggle of geese for a malnourished family; an operation to restore someone’s sight; or repair a child’s cleft lip +++ #CharityGifts https://impact.org.uk/shop/

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Instagram post 2192092968400027924_397488419 The Lifeline Express hospital train has served 11 locations across India this year, treating 112,000+ people. A publicity campaign alerts rural communities that the 'magic train' is on its way - adverts on TukTuks help spread the word 💙#TakingTheHospitalToThePeople
Instagram post 2191568364384484730_397488419 Day two of the IMPACT East Africa Ear Surgery Camp in Mwingi, Kenya. 18 patients scheduled for surgery this week. ‘We hope to receive more patients tomorrow to end the year with more friends hearing better!’ #LoveYourEars 💙👂👂#ActionTodayToPreventDisabilityTomorrow #EarCamp2019
Instagram post 2190809624228084837_397488419 Support IMPACT this #GivingTuesday...IMPACT.org.uk 🎁DONATE-£40 restores sight, hearing or movement to another person🎁SHOP-our tea towel & water bottle raise vital funds🎁GIFT an IMPACT Gift Token🎁SEND IMPACT Christmas cards💙TY! #CharityGifts #CharityTuesday
Instagram post 2187800335578135929_397488419 🌍💚 #FridaysForFuture #GreenFriday #ClimateChange All over the world, young people are leading the way✊In Kenya @impactEAfrica is supporting volunteers to plant 100s of trees in their schools. Our £10 gift token provides saplings for a class to nurture impact.org.uk/product/the-gi…
Instagram post 2186318082519965202_397488419 🐣🎁 Honk Honk! Thank you to everyone who bought our ‘Gaggle of Geese’ Gift Tokens last Christmas...👀 what a difference a year makes – the goslings you donated are all grown up and laying nutrient-rich eggs for families at risk from malnutrition. A £30 Gift Token helps another family, as well as making a thoughtful gift for your loved one...www.IMPACT.org.uk/product-category/gift-tokens/
Instagram post 2185636788836395086_397488419 Leprosy still exists in pockets of Cambodia. IMPACT is supporting O’Dangkor–a community affected by the disease. Until now, the one-room, tin-roofed health post you can see in the photos was the only place for people to turn to for medical care. IMPACT-Cambodia is replacing it with a new, modern brick clinic-as well as supporting activities to counter discrimination and prejudice, which can prevent people with symptoms coming forward for treatment. The good news is that the leprosy is curable with multidrug therapy. And raising awareness of self-care techniques for people with nerve damage can prevent further disabilities #ActionTodayToPreventDisabilityTomorrow
Instagram post 2181978473367544381_397488419 #GlastoSpirit Lots of people with #GlastonburyFestival on their minds today…so a long overdue thanks to our supporter Liz. She had a VIP pass last year but spread the love by donating what she would have paid for a ticket to IMPACT’s floating hospital in #Bangladesh🥰#Glasto2020
Instagram post 2181942436595449424_397488419 🐔 🐔🐔 TY Inner Wheel of Hart for gifting 40 members of IMPACT Nepal's Mothers’ Clubs with laying hens to improve their family diets. The hens will provide nutritious eggs and any surplus can be sold to generate much-needed income for healthcare & school fees
Instagram post 2180654705709807337_397488419 #WorldToiletDay Here in Kenya, children at Munyuuni School are celebrating because @impactEAfrica has built their school’s 1st permanent toilet block. Parents & teachers contributed their labour – a great example of IMPACT bringing people together to effect lasting change!
Instagram post 2177746601724624317_397488419 ✋🤚💦 Dry up in style with the new £5 IMPACT tea towel! It reproduces an original wall painting by the artist Jilly Sutton on board IMPACT's floating hospital in Bangladesh impact.org.uk/product/tea-to… #CharityGifts #ActionTodayToPreventDisabilityTomorrow
Instagram post 2176922504388391339_397488419 🙏Your support makes the world of difference to the lives of others. This year, IMPACT programmes delivered medical care, surgery & projects to prevent needless disability to 1.5 million people. Read all about it in our 2019 Annual Review! impact.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
Instagram post 2162289557236511309_397488419 Combatting malnutrition and diet-related ill health is one of our top priorities. In India, IMPACT volunteers visit schools in rural Maharashtra to share knowledge about nutrition & encourage home vegetable growing #EatYourGreens! 🥦🥬🥒🍈#ActionTodayToPreventDisabilityTomorrow
Instagram post 2159526436029793378_397488419 Introducing the 'forever' IMPACT water bottle...Our reusable bottle costs £20 and includes a contribution towards IMPACT's water projects in Africa and Asia - and of course every refill reduces the demand for polluting plastics 🌍💦💙www.IMPACT.org.uk
Instagram post 2131905823949848928_397488419 #MarvellousMedicine With rising cases of measles in the UK, Roald Dahl's heartbreaking reminder that no child need die of a vaccine preventable disease is as relevant as ever #RoaldDahlDay2019 #VaccinesWork Measles: A Dangerous Illness Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything. "Are you feeling all right?" I asked her. "I feel all sleepy," she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four [sic] years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it. It is not yet generally accepted that measles can be a dangerous illness. Believe me, it is. In my opinion parents who now refuse to have their children immunised are putting the lives of those children at risk. In America, where measles immunisation is compulsory, measles like smallpox, has been virtually wiped out. Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those,
Instagram post 2131451868849425844_397488419 #RememberACharityWeek Our supporter Eric said he wanted his legacy to change people's lives for the better. So when the time came, it was a fitting memorial to create a scholorship for a young nurse to train at our nursing school in #Bangladesh impact.org.uk/how-you-can-he…
Instagram post 2130540387987373189_397488419 #CoastToCoastForIMPACT some of the fells, dales and moors that @becky.anne51 is walking in aid of IMPACT #Bangladesh. 190 miles from coast to coast, through the heart of the country and with mountain top yoga along the way #GoBecky! Good luck to Ernie and Veronica who joined her today: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=RebeccaHawkins12&pageUrl=1
Instagram post 2126206386376236559_397488419 IMPACT's Lifeline Express hospital train has arrived in Sahibganj.People with disabling conditions have been arriving in their hundreds to register for treatment. Surgeons have a busy few weeks ahead! #TakingTheHospitalToThePeople
Instagram post 2113979889066196221_397488419 The IMPACT Lunch Club in Sussex has been dining out since 1997. Members meet 10 times a year, in a local pub or restaurant, to enjoy a talk by a guest speaker and socialise. A donation to IMPACT is included in the cost of the meal. Over the years, the Club has contributed more than £500,000 towards IMPACT’s work to prevent and treat needless disability throughout Africa and Asia. They would love to welcome new members, or advise anyone setting up something similar in their area. Please do get in touch enquiries@impact.org.uk
Instagram post 2111141540928479459_397488419 You may remember that a charitable family offered to match all donations for IMPACT’s floating hospital in Bangladesh in celebration of its 20th anniversary - up to £100,000. We are so grateful to our community of supporters for coming together to help secure the future of the Jibon Tari and delighted to tell you that the donor has increased their generous offer. They will now match every £1 donated up to a total of £225,000. Yes, we are still a little speechless! It would be a dream come true to reach this goal and continue taking the hospital to people like Mrs Banu, who recently underwent sight-restoring surgery….Thank you for all your support already https://impact.org.uk/happy-birthday-to-the-boat-of-life/
Instagram post 2109494254968337313_397488419 ‪Technicians at IMPACT Nepal's Orthotic & Prosthetic Centre make bespoke devices for 200+ men, women and children each year – restoring independence to the poorest people at low or no cost. Physiotherapists also help people regain movement & manage pain #Rehabilitation‬
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