DR. MINA MACKENZIE MEMORIAL TRUST FUND NEWSLETTER ISSUE 3 Mina Fund

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Dr. Mina MacKenzie 1872 -1957

EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION IN THIS ISSUE WINTER /SPRING 2016

Canadian bank note nomination Join us in nominating Mina MacKenzie for the new Canadian banknote. Page 1 Minimizing Admin Costs Tight focus on our goals helps ensure Mina Fund programs are managed Dr. Mina MacKenzie nominated for effectively and efficiently. Page 2 Canadian bank note Tuberculosis Is Cured by Bill Bayer More than a century after Dr. Mina laid the cornerstone, Mina Fund support Until April 16, the Bank of Canada is she brought from home, to blast a for this hospital continues! inviting the public to nominate well and supply a rural community Page 2 women from Canada ’s past for a new with safe drinking water. She adopted polymer bank note. This note will dozens of abandoned children. Community Health feature an iconic Canadian woman Indeed, there was nothing Dr. Mina How the life of one man and his family and will be issued in late 2018. MacKenzie wouldn ’t do when it came was changed by the Community to helping the poor and sick. Health Team. Coming from a poor farming family, Page 3 Jemima (Mina) MacKenzie overcame Resourceful, determined, gutsy. Mina Fund volunteer in significant obstacles on her path to These words seem like understate- Our first volunteer residing in India become one of the first female ments when it comes to describing helps the Mina Fund improve local graduates of Dalhousie University ’s Dr. MacKenzie. Her extraordinary communications. medical program in 1904. strength of character and unusual accomplishments make her an ideal Page 4 Working as a medical in nominee for this honour. Child Sponsorship India, Dr. Mina prevented an outbreak For less than the price of a cup of of cholera after inoculating people Please visit www.bankofcanada.ca/ coffee a day, you can permanently im- night and day. She learned how to do banknotes/banknoteable/ to join us in prove the life of a child. cataract by correspondence. nominating Dr. Mina MacKenzie for Page 4 Once she detonated dynamite that Canada ’s new polymer bank note! https://twitter.com/MinaFund https://www.facebook.com/minafund www.minatrustfund.ca https://twitter.com/MinaFund DR. MINA MACKENZIE MEMORIAL TRUST FUND NEWSLETTER PAGE 2

aligning Mina Fund activities to: ^ Develop Mina Fund web site, Minimizing Facebook and Twitter pages Admin Costs ^ Focus on the Mina Fund ’s ^ Enable online payments and donations using PayPal by Bill Bayer “Empowerment Through Education ” mission statement ^ Implement new fundraising In 2015, we needed to ensure support ^ Refresh/expand our donor base activities that build on the success of our first charity art auction. could continue for the children the ^ Communicate with donors Mina Fund has been helping. Through through a regular newsletter The Mina Fund will continue to ensure volunteer fundraising activities and ^ Improve operational efficiency administrate costs are held to the generous support from our donors, we through an expenditure and minimum level. We look forward to accomplished this goal! donation tracking database continuing this success in 2016 by Operationally, efforts focused on ^ Encourage donors to establish an attracting new donors and developing minimizing administrative costs and endowment from their estate additional fundraising activities.

Broadwell Christian Hospital—Then and Now by Bill Bayer In 1907, Dr. Mina MacKenzie arrived of miles for relief from their suffering Community health and development in Fatehpur, a station with over one and for the first time, operations were programs include Women Empower- thousand villages. Fatehpur itself had performed in an operating room with ment, Adolescent Education and over 19,000 inhabitants and the many closed doors. Training, Livelihood and support of surrounding villages also needed to the National Urban Health Mission. Today under the leadership of Dr. be served. Dr. MacKenzie was Thomas, the Broadwell Christian Infrastructure Development activities responsible for all medical work as Hospital continues to bring hope to include: Head Surgeon, but she also planned many needy people. The hospital the new buildings, performed facility ^ Renovation of labour room increased to 50 beds and expanded maintenance and conducted the waiting area, labour room, NICU services to include General Surgery, teaching and training of all staff. and female ward. Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics ^ Palliative care services that bring After Dr. MacKenzie received a and Neonatology, Ophthalmology, hope and love into the lives of generous donation from Mr. Dentistryy and Palliative Care. many terminal patients. Broadwell of Cincinnati in ^ Programs focused on the social memory of his wife, ten determinants of health in urban acres of beautiful land slums. with mango groves was secured and on November The Mina Fund is proud to continue 25, 1909, the cornerstone more than a century of support for of the new hospital at Broadwell Christian Hospital. Our goal Fatehpur was laid. is to raise $5,000 in 2016 to purchase In 1910, Dr. MacKenzie cardiac monitors and contribute to became Head Surgeon of building an orthopedic operating the Broadwell Memorial theater. Hospital and though not Please help make our infrastructure completely finished, the goal for 2016 a success with a special hospital doors were contribution to the Mina Fund. opened to the public for Broadwell Christian Hospital use. The staff was increased, Staff at Broadwell Christian Hospital, programs save lives—and your help patients travelled hundreds founded by Dr. Mina MacKenzie in 1909. can make this possible!

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MINA FUND AT WORK Community Health Team … Donated Computers e-Emphasys Technologies Inc. Tuberculosis Is Cured coordinated with the Mina Fund by Bill Bayer to donate seven used computers to the children ’s homes in and . These computers will be used to provide students with access to the Internet and to help develop research and critical thinking skills. Endowment Long -time Mina Fund supporter Lillias Brown passed away on August 30, 2015. We appreciate the endowment Lillias provided in her will for the Mina Fund. Lillias ’ generosity will be missed! Infrastructure Drive The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation helped support our 2015 infrastructure drive with a $3500 grant. This Mina Fund donors support life -saving community funding will be used to replace outreach work at Broadwell Christian Hospital . extremely worn dining room Pyarelal worried when he coughed Health Team noticed the family was tables and beds at the Girls up blood and sought medical help. struggling financially from the cost Christian Hostel in Ratlam. He eventually tested positive for of medical care. Broadwell Christian 2015 Charity Art Auction Tuberculosis, but after his initial Hospital staff contributed enough The first Mina Fund Charity Art treatment, his condition worsened. money to purchase a month's worth Auction was a tremendous His crying wife called Broadwell of food for the family. success, netting over $1600 Christian Hospital's Community thanks to our participating artists Health Team and asked for help. After two months of continued visits, and our generous auction bidders! the team could see improvement. This funding enabled us to Key to successfully treating TB is Pyarelal was eating more and gaining increase support for the Broadwell consistency in taking medication strength. First he was able to sit up Christian Hospital originally throughout the six months course of by himself in bed, then walk around founded by Dr. Mina MacKenzie. treatment. If the medicine is not using a stick, and eventually his taken consistently or not taken to mental outlook improved as well. completion, TB will return—and often then be drug resistant. At the completion of his six months of treatment, Pyarelal was given a FlipGive allows supporters to shop By the time the Community Health clean bill of health. He now goes off great deals with Wagjag, Indigo, Team visited Pyarelal, he was daily to sell vegetables in the market Groupon, Starbucks, shop.ca and wasting away and his family had lost to support his family. other great restaurants and all hope. The staff counselled the retailers to support the Mina family about the importance of Support from Mina Fund donors and Fund—at no additional cost! taking the medications consistently. continuous care of the Community Please bookmark FlipGive ’s URL Health Team improved the life of this https://www.flipgive.com/c/32181 . After several visits the Community man and his family. https://twitter.com/MinaFund https://www.facebook.com/minafund www.minatrustfund.ca https://twitter.com/MinaFund DR. MINA MACKENZIE MEMORIAL TRUST FUND NEWSLETTER PAGE 4

Avadhut Sawant joins the Mina Fund by Bill Bayer Please join us in welcoming Avadhut Based in Mumbia, Avi ’s activities Sawant to the Mina Fund! Avi and I for the Mina Fund will further initially met eight years ago through improve communication with business, during my role with the children ’s homes and Komatsu Canada. Our first volunteer hospitals we support, while located in India, Avi is already helping helping to minimize our improve local communications. administrative costs.

Avi ’s area of expertise is Advanced We ’re thrilled Avi has agreed to Data Analytics. Currently working as join the Mina Fund and look Senior Architect at L&T Infotech, Avi forward to the positive impact is simultaneously pursuing a Ph.D. in his ideas and support will bring! “Machine Learning ”.

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support and motivation, they can deductible receipts will be issued for Sponsorship achieve what everyone hopes for – a donations of $25 or more. by Bill Bayer better life. It takes about $1/day to change a life. Through the help of sponsors like you, With child sponsorship, you receive: Your support makes a major impact, the Mina Fund has changed the lives so please sponsor a child today! of hundreds of children. With your ^ A picture and story of your sponsored child Your donation at work: ^ Child ’s annual progress report ^ $375 –Sponsorship of a child for one full year ^ Newsletter explaining the difference you are making ^ $100 – Medical treatments ^ Charitable donation tax receipt ^ $ 50 – Room/board for 2 months ^ Best of all, a meaningful ^ $ 25 – School uniform relationship with the child you Please share this newsletter with sponsor, making you an active others to encourage support of Mina partner in your child ’s progress Fund activities and bookmark our web and development site and Facebook page! Donations can be made by cheque, Shivani, age 10. Interac eTransfer or Paypal and tax -

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