PC Recycling Project
As we are already in an I.T age, and most households already have a home pc, however, there are families out there who are not able to afford a pc, and their kids need to be pc savy in this day and age.
Calling the Tech Savvy
Give an hour of your time at your convenience
to refurbish used PCs at OLPS for St Vincent de Paul.
If you are available, pse contact us at olpsmission@yahoo.com.sg
Or call [Carol 96732467] http://olpsmission.blogspot.com
So the idea is to :
Recycle used personal computers, through refurbishing and upgrading with parts from other used computers, for installation in the homes of the families under the care of the OLPS SVDP.
Steps to be taken
Invite Parishioners of OLPS to donate personal computers and modems to access the Internet that they no longer have use for because they are upgrading or have too many in their households. These equipment should be in working condition or at least can be reused as working parts of a recycled PC.
Those PCs of Pentium III and above can be refurbished and recycled in their entirety while those below Pentium III will have their parts (hard disk drives, floppy drive, sound cards, RAMs, etc) recycled.
The PCs will need to be housed at OLPS Parish or some place convenient and Project members, comprising PC enthusiasts, will roster their time to refurbish and recycle these PCs.
Thereafter, arrangements can be made with SVDP for these PCs to be delivered.
Periodically, any PC or parts that cannot be recycled will be sold to the junkyard.
Mission Outreach@OLPS
Monday, May 14, 2007
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Background On Health Problems in Rempang
Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes that bite from dusk to dawn. Symptoms can develop as early as six days or as late as several months after exposure. Early symptoms are usually "flu-like", characterized by fever, chills, muscle aches, and headache. Cycles of chills, fever, and sweating that recur every 1, 2, or 3 days are typical. There can sometimes be vomiting, diarrhea, coughing and yellowing (jaundice) of the skin and whites of the eyes. For more information go to, http://www.medicinenet.com/malaria/article.htm
Scabies refers to an infestation by the small eight-legged itch mites (in contrast to insects, which have six legs). They are just 1/3 millimeter long and burrow into the skin to produce intense itching which tends to be worse at night. The mites which cause scabies are not visible with the naked eye but can be seen with a magnifying glass or microscope. These mites are very fastidious. They can only live off of a host body for 24 to 36 hours under most conditions. Transmission of the mites involves close person-to-person contact of the skin-to-skin variety. It is hard, if not impossible, to catch scabies by shaking hands, hanging your coat next to someone who has it, or even sharing bedclothes that had mites in them the night before.
Scabies produces small bumps and blisters in the webs between the fingers, on the wrists and the backs of the elbows, in the groin and on the knees, and on the buttocks - not every bump is a bug.
In most cases of scabies in otherwise healthy adults, there are no more than 10 or 15 live mites even if there are hundreds of bumps and pimples. Itching is the most common symptom of scabies and is insidious and relentless. For the first weeks, the itch is subtle. It then gradually becomes more intense until, after a month or two, sleep becomes almost impossible.
The "nocturnal" nature of this itch, emphasized to every doctor and nurse in training, can be misleading. All itching is worse at night, at least in part because there is not much going on to distract people from thinking about it. For more information pse refer to, http://www.medicinenet.com/scabies/article.htm
Note From Our Parish Priest
Wonderful, Edmund. Send my regards and thanks to all the zealous "missionaries". May God bless you all and your families.
Fr Greg
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Medical Outreach
Dear Rev Fathers, Brothers and Sisters at OLPS, in the Partners in the Gospel and at Asrama Tarsisius in Tanjung Pinang
I wish to let you know that we arrived back at OLPS at around 7.30 pm this evening from our trip to Rempang safely and with a sense of accomplishment.
25 of us went and were given medical support from 15 doctors, dentist, nurses, religious and lay people from the Catholic Medical Guild in Singapore and from the St Elizabeth Hospital in Batam. The Parish of Tembesi, Maria Bunda Pembantu Abadi (Our Lady of Perpetual Help), who has been given the responsibility of the Asrama Santa Theresia in Rempang, extended a very warm welcome to us after Mass on Sunday.
The medical support which enabled us to treat the children at the Asrama and at the Santa Ignatius School, was timely as the skin diseases (mainly scabies) had already begun to spread to many of the children since our last visit in Nov last year, when the problem was first identified. The dental treatment given by the medical team will also arrest the spread of cavities in the children for the time being.
During our stay, our Team served as the hands and feet of the Sisters from the Jesus Mary Joseph Order who arrived in February to manage the Asrama, helping them with the housekeeping, such as clearing the rubbish and choked toilets (a humbling experience), cutting grass, leveling the grounds, all to ensure safety for the children when they run around the Asrama.
There is more work to be done from here on as there are 70 children living in 2 dormitories built for 50 and 30 more children are expected to join in the second half of this year. But our priority now is to pray for the healing and health of the children currently there.
On behalf of the Team I would like to thank you for all your prayers which have made the trip possible.
May God be Praised!
Carol
On behalf of the Rempang Mission Outreach Team 2007
Mission Poem by Anne Gan
