Funding and Donors: Harry's Help.

Message From Harry:

Hi, my name is Harry Townsend. I am 16 years old and am currently studying for my AS levels at Sutton Valence School. Over the last ten years I have suffered many problems with both my left and my right ear. I have had two mastoid cyst operations, both lasting 6 and a half hours each.Without the incredible care I have been given by the NHS, Bupa, and my ENT surgeon Mr. Gluckman, I might have lost the hearing in my right ear.

Last summer I went on a month long trip to Nepal with my school where we did some charity work, trekking, and spent a week helping out and painting at a school deep in the mountains. This trip changed my life forever and after seeing the children in this little mountain town who had nothing just get on with life, it made me realise just how lucky I am and how much I have, and how I want to give something back.

BRINOS is a charity which is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of deafness in Nepal.

A national survey found that 2.7 million out of a population of 19 million people in Nepal are significantly deaf, and out of that 2.7 million, 70% are children, and 61% have had no treatment at all. What BRINOS does is it organises for British ENT’s to go out to Nepal and to not only perform surgery on those who need it, but train the Nepali surgeons how to perform the surgery.

In March 2010, I will be running the Hastings half marathon on BRINOS’s behalf.

Thisi charity is very close to my heart because of my ear problems and the help I’ve been given, and my expedition to Nepal last summer and this is my way of trying to give something back. I am determined to help raise awareness and money for this amazing charity which is for a really great cause and want to give the Nepali children the same level of care I have had. I will be more than grateful for any donation of any size.

Please help in any way that you can. Thank you very much.     Click here for BRINOS Contact info

Harry Townsend with the Children in Nepal

'BRINOS is so grateful to Harry Townsend for choosing us as his favoured charity.

Please sponsor him for this very worthwhile cause.
Donations can be made direct to BRINOS via marked "Harry Townsend Half Marathon" Click here for information

Two teams have just returned from our 39th and 40th ear surgery camps in southwestern Nepal where 193 major ear operations were performed in the space of two weeks.A specialist ear surgeon in the UK would be unlikely to have the chance to experience this workload in the space of one year'.

Best wishes, Neil Weir (Founder Director BRINOS)

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