The TRMG Foundation
TRMG has always maintained active student sponsorship and children’s charity programmes, with a focus on disadvantaged children and students in developing economies. We are now expanding this effort through the establishment of the TRMG Foundation. Our current projects address urgent surgical needs for children suffering from Hydrocephalus as well as other forms of care for disabled children in Nigeria, solar heating and other green solutions for schools in Africa, and support for sports training initiatives in the Caribbean. 2007We were delighted to sponsor a Masters student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, Madeleine Bihina Bella for the entire duration of her programme. Madeleine wrote her thesis on the use of Self Organizing Map (SOM) technology in pattern detection for fraud management within telecom data and she graduated cum laude on 05 September, 2007. Madeleine has since been recruited by Atos Origin and she was selected as an IT security specialist for the 2008 Olympic Games in China. For more information about the University of Pretoria’s Information and Computer Security Architectures (ICSA) research group please go to http://icsa.cs.up.ac.za The University of Pretoria’s main website can be found at www.up.ac.za 2008
2009
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In 2008 TRMG opted to sponsor a different kind of worthy cause. The Hearts of Gold Hospice (
During 2009 we delivered three children’s wheelchairs to the Hearts of Gold Hospice for disabled children in Lagos, along with some toys. We have also facilitated a very successful fund-raising effort to pay for urgent life-saving surgery for four of the children living at the Hospice. This drive has now raised more than $20,000 and a new donor is in the process of providing an additional $10,000 towards the same cause. Three of these children (Grace, Oyin and Elizabeth) are suffering from Hydrocephalus, or “water head”, a severe swelling of the head caused by an accumulation of fluid inside the skull which is fatal if not corrected. The other child has an abdominal growth which may be cancerous. Grace and Elizabeth have already had successful surgery in Dubai. We hope to send Oyin on the next trip and we’ll update you on his progress here over the coming months.
We are now sponsoring a four year old boy named Victor Muiruri who is attending the Summit School in Kenya, about an hour outside Nairobi. Victor is an orphan and his relatives are unable to fund his education, which costs just over $50 per month. We have made a commitment to cover this cost through to his graduation at the age of 18, and we hope to be able to post regular updates here on Victor’s progress through his formative years.
Also during 2009, we jointly funded the installation of a solar powered water heating system at the Summit School, along with Extraordinary Leadership Journeys. This is hopefully just the first step toward sustainable and self-sufficient power and water supplies for the school.
On the sporting front, we have donated modern sports equipment to a youth cricket coaching facility in Kingston, Jamaica. This is already producing remarkable results and the students have shown significant improvement in their skills, according to their coaches.
