A partnership of the Lions MD105 and Child Advocacy International, Gift for Living continues in it's work of rebuilding the infrastructure for the innocent and suffering children of the former Yugoslavia.

Hospitals in both East and West Mostar have benefitted - the old hospital in the west being given state-of-the-art equipment and renovation, and the newly built hospital in the east receiving high tech life saving equipment.

Doctors and nurses have been trained, both here in our Multiple District and on their home territory. Teaching, in the formidable shape of Sister Angela O'Higgins, has been delivered to the heart of this troubled area, bringing child-friendly nursing techniques to this formerly rather clinical system.

In 1999 Gift for Living moved into it's second phase, major assistance in Sarajevo. Over US$300,000 worth of hospital equipment was installed - including ambulances and a dentist chair. Training of doctors and nurses is constantly being developed, bringing the benefits of up-to-the-minute Western medical techniques into communities where the normal infrastructure of life has been put on hold for many years now.

Lion
Gift for Living Committee Chairman