Bursary recipients

The Department of Radiology in South Eastern Trust, Northern Ireland is twinned with Radiology in Harare Central Hospital, Zimbabwe and we have been helping them to build an educational library. To introduce ourselves we made a slide show of our department staff holding a sign saying " Mhoro" which is hello in Zimbabwean. This was very well received in Harare and in return we received a slide show of staff photographs and facilities in Harare. Lots of lovely smiling faces that warmed our hearts as you can see and spurred us on.

Initially we asked all of our colleagues to donate any unwanted text books in the hope that many of the titles were the ones requested by Shelton Muchemwa, Chief Radiographer. We got lucky as many were indeed on the list. Late August 2018, we held a coffee morning to raise enough money to post 30kgs of books to Harare. This is almost ready for dispatch. We have a further 30kgs of books we want to ship before Christmas. There were many other items on Shelton's list which we have asked the Imaging in Developing Countries, Special Interest Group  (IDC SIG) to help us with.

Pictured are WRETF Ambassador Dominique Zerroug and recent WRETF travel bursary award recipient, Mr Katassou of Togo, at the CAFIMRA conference held in Dakar, Senegal September 2018

Pictured at the recent ISRRT Congress held in Trinidad and Tobago in April 2018, is WRETF bursary recipient Evelyn Wasike of Kenya with Cynthia Cowling, Chairman of the WRETF.

Pictured with her certificate awarded by the ISRRT, is Cynthia Cowling, Chairman of WRETF. Cynthia was presented with the Dien Van Dijk award, made only every 4 years for her commitment to radiography on the international stage. Also pictured is Dr Bobby Harreveld who was Cynthia's supervisor for her PhD and who also was a keynote speaker at the ISRRT Congress held in Trinidad and Tobago.

Pictured is radiographer Moses of Buluba Hospital, Uganda with some of the books provided by WRETF. They were taken out by Renate Hoare from Derby UK recently when she went to the hospital to provide some much needed help. Her report of her visit is to be found by selecting the Twinning Project button.

Pictured are representatives of Monash University Radiography Student Society Executive. Left to right - Alex Liao, Andrew Dow and far right is Jeremy Kilgour. These plus other student colleagues recently raised funds to support the work of the WRETF, namely the funding of bursaries. The Trust's Communications Lead and also Treasurer will be writing a Press Release soon about this donation.

Staff of UYO teaching Hospital Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria with some of the books recently sent to them by WRETF in July 2017. The books were first sent to the Trust's ambassador in Nigeria - Solomon Ubom who kindly forwarded them on to the hospital.

Pictured is Brigitte Kaviani, Assistant Operations Director in the Radiology Department of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals UK with the Radiology Manager of Gwembe Hospital in Zambia. Brigitte recently visited Zambia taking with her a number of items to help the radiographers there. Lead markers, books and other small items. See the report of her visit by selecting the Twinning button.

Pictured is recent bursary recipient, Elizabeth Olanloye of Nigeria with Professor Penny Engel-Hills of the Radiotherapy Department Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town South Africa. Elizabeth spent almost 4 weeks in July 2017, learning of radiotherapy techniques and practices that she can take back to her own department to benefit her patients.  Her report of her visit can be found under the Newsfeed button and then select bursary reports.

Pictured is artist Doris Choi at work at the recently held 21st Asia-Australasia Conference. Donated 5 of her paintings to help raise funds for WRETF. 

Doris Choi with Edward Wong of Hong Kong and her painting of Lychees.

Pictured are Koffi Kouassi of Cote D'Ivoire and Cathy Thibaut of France at the recent Congress in March 2017 held in Bordeaux. Koffi is the recipient of a travel bursary award from WRETF that allowed him to attend the Congress and to make a presentation of his work. Cathy is an ambassador for the Trust.

Pictured is Anesue Sabeta of Zimbabwe at the PACORI Conference held in Tanzania in February 2017. Anesue is a recipient of a bursary from WRETF which enabled her to attend the conference.

Pictured are WRETF former Chairman Cynthia Cowling with recently appointed WRETF ambassador Mr Tin of Myanmar and Stewart Whitley, Treasurer of ISRRT.