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Staff at the Nuffield private hospital in Plymouth raised over £4000 to support Operation Hernia. The money was raised through a staff charity ball, which saw donations reach £2,994, and the remainder was put in by staff and patients at the hospital.

Ria Cox (deputy finance manager, Nuffield Health Plymouth) presented a cheque for £4674 to Raj Dhumale, Brian Dixon and Chris Oppong, Board members of Operation Hernia.

£750 was raised for Operation Hernia at a Dinner attended by Sir Bobby Charlton for the British Hernia Society Annual meeting held at the Manchester United football ground on October 11th.

Since the initiation of an Operation Hernia site at the Awojobi Clinic in Eruwa, Nigeria in 2009, six more successful missions have taken place, and Eruwa has become a centre of Hernia excellence in Oyo State. At the instigation of Operation Hernia volunteer Ramon Vilallonga fundraising was started in 2010, and enough money has been raised to build a Hernia Centre. The inaugural mission to the Centre will be lead by veteran volunteer from Spain Dr Teresa Butron

Operation Hernia would like to send a huge Thank You to the pupils and staff at Lipson Vale Primary School for the tremendous effort they put into raising the sum of £1241.25 for our charity.

We have immense admiration for the staff of LVPS who have encouraged their pupils to adopt a remarkable motivation and attitude to help those in our world who are less privileged than themselves.

The photo below shows a school of happy African pupils who reflect the sense of well-being that is obviously also present at Lipson Vale

Andrew Kingsnorth

A generous donation of $10,000 was recently received from Norbert Panken via his Foundation "Theo & Wiro". This will help to sustain our teaching programme in Mongolia which continued into its second phase this September in Ulaan Baatar and the Gobi, using mosquito net mesh for the hernia repairs.

A major portion however will be put into the development of our new site in Peru where the first mission took place in February 2012. Plans for the next mission are well advanced and supported by the Society of General Surgeons of Peru.