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THE Rotary club of Anstruther has joined forces with its counterparts in South America to battle diabetes.
Masterminded by member Andrew Lindsay, a retired teacher, the Anster club, along with the Rotary Club of Demerara, is taking part in a two-year, $17,000 (around ?10,600) project to fight the disease in Guyana, where it is one of the leading causes of death.
Mr Lindsay, who has family links to the country, has just returned from a visit there. He and colleagues from the Demerara Rotary helped mount a medical expedition to the remote Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region.
The project?s main aim is to take diabetes screening, treatment and education to the Amerindian people of the area around the village of Annai ? some 280 miles from the country?s main town of Georgetown.
http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/loc...nk-to-south-american-diabetes-fight-1-2740008
Masterminded by member Andrew Lindsay, a retired teacher, the Anster club, along with the Rotary Club of Demerara, is taking part in a two-year, $17,000 (around ?10,600) project to fight the disease in Guyana, where it is one of the leading causes of death.
Mr Lindsay, who has family links to the country, has just returned from a visit there. He and colleagues from the Demerara Rotary helped mount a medical expedition to the remote Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region.
The project?s main aim is to take diabetes screening, treatment and education to the Amerindian people of the area around the village of Annai ? some 280 miles from the country?s main town of Georgetown.
http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/loc...nk-to-south-american-diabetes-fight-1-2740008