Gambia-L, Happy New Year to all. Lets start the New Millennium by contributing directly to saving some babies. We wish to thank list members for their support to OPERATION SAVE A BABY and we look forward to more support this year. Peace Tombong Saidy Operation Save a Baby 2000 Royal Victoria Hospital Independence Drive P. O. Box 1515 Banjul, The Gambia 1st January 2000 PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release OPERATION SAVE A BABY 2000 Last year the First Lady, Madam Zineb Yahya Jammeh presided over Operation Save a Baby, a fund raising venture whose main aim was to raise D100, 000 for the purchase of an incubator for premature babies at the Royal Victoria Hospital. This is was one of the most successful fund raising effort in the annals of this country and we ended up raising a record amount of D430, 285.00 plus a battery operated incubator. Operation Save a Baby was able to secure five incubators, four for the Royal Victoria Hospital and one for Bansang Hospital. The one for Bansang Hospital uses batteries and is mobile (could be used in an ambulance for example). On behave of the First Lady, Madam Zineb Yahya Jammeh, Operation Save a Baby Committee, and all Gambians, particularly Gambian children, we wish to express our gratitude, appreciation and thanks to all those who contributed one way or the other to the success of Operation Save a Baby. We would like to thank the Gambia Chamber of Commerce in particular and the Business Community in General for the tremendous support they gave to Operation Save a Baby. Without their support and co-operation, this fund raising effort would not have been successful. The success of Operation Save a Baby demonstrated that we the citizens could do and achieve any thing if we put our resource together towards a common course. In light of the above and in spirit of the New Millennium to continue to contribute to the development of The Gambia, we hereby launch OPERATION SAVE BABY 2000 which will also be presided by the First Lady, Madam Zineb Yahya Jammeh. OPERATION SAVE A BABY 2000 aims to raise D500, 000 within six months, until June 30th, to purchase Vacuum Extractor with Caps, Autoclave and Sterilises for the maternity ward. These are urgently needed equipment and we are counting on the support of all Gambians particularly the business community. Send your cheques to the Royal Victoria Hospital payable to Operation Save a Baby 2000 (tel; 226 - 152; Fax: 225-832). THE BABY YOU ARE SAVING MIGHT BE YOURS Tombong Saidy Chairman Operation Save A Baby 2000 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------