The Roundstone - Promotions and Events

Thanks for joining us! See pictures from the event on our promotions and events page!

This is the 4th annual "Imagine" fashion show. Proceeds from the evening will go to the Spina Bifida project and the Kingston General Hospital Pediatric Care Unit. You can make a difference!

Treatment of Children with Spina Bifida

Spina Bifida is the most frequently occurring, permanently disabling birth defect. It affects approximately one out of every 1000 newborns. More children have spina bifida than have muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis and cystic fibrosis combined.

Some of the proceeds from this evening will go towards providing operations for children with spina bifida.

Endoscopy Project

Experts estimate that less than 50% of surgeries that are necessary in Africa actually get done - and this contributes to the persistently bleak state of health care provision on the contintent. Surgeries don't get done because the skills may not be available or access to care is too difficult - but most often because the resources are simply not there. Surgical endoscopy - or treatment through tiny holes with telescope-like instruments - requires specific equipment, most of which is currently lacking at Kijabe.

In the area of urology, such equipment can help children born with a blockage of their urine passages and without surgery they suffer needlessly. A simple endoscopic procedure can cure them fully. In the area of neurosurgery, children with hydrocephalus (water in the brain) are treated with the placement of a shunt, which exposes them to lifelong infections and other complications. Many of these children can be treated effectively with an endoscope. Our goal is to purchase an endoscopy set for Kijabe to be used for both procedures.