About the Non-profit

ROSEcharities aims to improve the quality of life for disabled poor people by providing rehabilitation surgery and general rehabilitation programs. Integral to this mission is a program of training local clinician and health workers focusing on the development of sustainable provincial service for the poor and disabled people

500 million, or 12% of the world's population suffer from disability. Disabilities bring misery, reduce economic status, destroy social integration and cause untold suffering through stigmatization and marginalization from society.

In the last 30 years international agencies have made great efforts to assist with health-care in developing countries focusing on the principles of 'primary health care' (PHC); e.g. sanitation, clean water, Maternal Child Health (MCH), developed at the conference of Alma Ata in 1978. Surgery has been considerably under-emphasized as 'too sophisticated and expensive' for widespread impact.

In the last quarter century great efforts have been made by international agencies to assist with health-care in developing countries. These have concentrated heavily on the principles of 'primary health care' (PHC); e.g. sanitation, clean water, Maternal Child Health (MCH), expounded at the conference of Alma Ata in 1978. Curative measures have been downplayed. Surgery in particular has been considerably under-emphasized as 'too sophisticated and expensive' for widespread impact.

What's the niche?

CSC demonstrates the huge benefits of simple, safe, rehabilitation surgery to developing countries by organizing treatment and training programs. CSC is one of few organizations promoting this doctrine, and almost alone in practising it.

What's the biggest challenge?

One in eight people in the world suffer with a disability. It is usually the disabled who are among the first to suffer in times of crisis. There is a common belief that disabled people are to be pitied, but it is expensive to dedicate money to each disabled person. Medical funds should be given to the development of primary health care: providing clean water, maternal and child health, treating and preventing AIDS, etc. However, our position as CSC is that the focus on primary care should not stop developing a practical capability for rehabilitative surgery.

Disabled people who receive rehabilitation surgery are relieved from chronic conditions of pain, lack of mobility, or physical deformity stigmatizing them in society. Surgery gives them freedom of opportunity for themselves and their care-giver families to become productive in their society. Surgery improves their physical capabilities, self-confidence and their lives.

CSC is highly qualified for developing a model rehabilitative surgery capability. as it is not too large, is extremely efficient, and have a diversity of the skills of dedicated people who come from within Cambodia and numerous overseas countries. These people have already shown a personal long-term commitment to develop the capability for CSC to ultimately be self-sustainable.

If you would like to contact ROSEcharities, you can reach them at ROSEcharities@USA.com

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