Fiji

EDUCARE:

• Sai Prema Ashram — Centre for Love and Peace and Centre for Human Development was inaugurated in April 2019
• Dr Maryanne Kora’ai was successfully trained in a specialist area of paediatric cardiology at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital Centre for Child Heart Care, Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh
• Sai Prema Foundation embarked upon a multitude of programmes to rural communities which included educating the rural folks about right nutrition, oral health and dental hygiene, sanitary care, basic hygiene care and education in human values
• Sai Prema Foundation embarked upon an online education campaign to create greater awareness among the population about safe practices to protect the environment. This included saving water, recycling rubbish, conserving electricity and avoiding usage of plastic bags

MEDICARE:

• Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Medical Centre — A free medical clinic and pharmacy located at Suva was inaugurated in April 2018
• Health on Wheels is a Free Medical Outreach Programme catering to the health and well-being of Fiji’s rural population, providing a wide range of quality medical and dental services. The Divine Mother and Child Program catering to the needs of pregnant mothers and little children is also an integral part of this initiative
• Gift of Life refers to Paediatric Cardiac Services (Open heart surgeries, catheterisation lab procedures, and other cardiac interventions) that are provided completely free of cost
• Medical Scholarship Programme provides free scholarships to train Fijian doctors in the field of Paediatric Cardiology
• Be a Hero — This is a Blood collection drive which has won Sai Prema Foundation, the awards for Highest Blood Collection in the Central Region and Second Highest Blood Collection in the Western Region in 2017 and 2018
• Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), a subsidiary organisation of the United Nations, whereby relevant UNDP Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are identified in accordance with Sai Prema Foundation’s projects and initiatives. The aim is to expand the effectiveness in bringing about a solution with a prescribed end goal, through both community awareness and outreach programmes in rural, peri-urban and urban areas of Fiji
• Partnership with Fiji National University (FNU) through the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). This collaboration with FNU entails the joint development of Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Dental Centre which will provide free dental services to underprivileged and needy children from rural backgrounds. In addition, both Sai Prema Foundation Fiji & FNU have collaborated to foster co-operation, understanding, strategic alliance and partnership with an aim of serving people by providing healthcare to staff and students of the University, organise blood donation drives, promote volunteerism and embark upon a human values programme
• Partnership with the University of the South Pacific (USP) through the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). This collaboration with USP is to foster co-operation, understanding, strategic alliance and partnership with an aim of serving people by providing healthcare to staff and students of the University, organise blood donation drives, promote volunteerism and embark upon a human values programme
• A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed with the Fiji Red Cross Society with the aim to collaborate and conduct awareness programmes for symptoms of Congenital Heart Diseases, the need for blood donation, facilitate screening/treatment of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) as well as Communicable Diseases(CDs), execution of medical camps at rural villages in Fiji, as well as the provision of volunteer support by the Red Cross Society Fiji towards the projects and initiatives of Sai Prema Foundation
• Collaboration between Sai Prema Foundation and the Embassy of Japan – Provision of a specialist Ambulance by the Embassy to the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Hospital, Fiji
• Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed with the Consumer Council of Fiji, a Government Statutory Body, whereby both the organisations will jointly work towards creating greater awareness of the prevalence and symptoms of congenital heart disease (CHD) as well as educate the people about the availability of free services the Foundation’s Medical Centre, Heart Screening Centre and Children’s Heart Hospital
• Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed with Digicel Fiji, with a goal of serving the children of Fiji, by jointly working towards creating greater awareness of the prevalence and symptoms of congenital heart disease (CHD), educate people about the availability of free cardiac services through the centres. To create blood drive awareness and to educate the population about the need to donate blood by the means of text messages broadcasted by the mobile phone network
• Initiated a new project ‘We Care for You!’ to promote good health and well-being of the Fiji Police Force, Republic of Fiji Military Forces, National Fire Authority, Fiji Navy and Fiji Corrections Service. This initiative was a way of showing gratitude towards the frontline workers and their families, by providing free general medical consultations and medications at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Medical Centre; free dental procedures at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Dental Centre; free children’s heart screening at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Screening Centre; creating greater awareness of the prevalence and symptoms of congenital heart disease (CHD) among all families of these frontline workers; and free heart surgery for children between 0-16 years at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Hospital, Fiji
• Sai Prema Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Services Fiji, the Royal Fiji Military Forces and the Fiji Police Force organised COVID vaccination drives in response to the second wave with the delta variant of the virus
• Sai Prema Foundation Fiji and the New Zealand High Commission teamed up to pay gratitude to the frontline COVID-19 warriors both medical and non-medical personnel, who have been serving across various quarantine, containment, health, vaccination, and other facilities around the nation were gifted with ‘Gratitude packs’
• Patients are treated absolutely free of cost at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Medical Centre
• The poor population of rural Fiji are given free general and specialist medical consultations and free medication through the Health on Wheels rural outreach medical project
• Children are given free heart screening at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Screening Centre and also by personally travelling to the remote interior rural pockets of Fiji
• Sai Prema Foundation along with Dr Georgina Brunton – Clinical Psychiatrist from Australia, who conducted mental health consultations and workshops at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Medical Centre and in rural Fiji
• The Foundation has commenced construction of South Pacific’s, first super-speciality paediatric cardiac hospital in Suva, where all surgeries and treatments will be rendered, completely free of cost
• Sai Prema Foundation Fiji celebrates ‘Pinktober’ with a high-profile event to create awareness about breast cancer
• Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Hospital – the only paediatric cardiac hospital in the entire South Pacific region completely dedicated to addressing Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) was inaugurated on 27 April 2022. So far, the 54 bedded hospital has saved 154 children using invasive as well as non-invasive procedures

SOCIOCARE:

• Sai Annapoorna – Serve meals to underprivileged and needy families, elder care, special care and orphanages
• Children of God is a project to look after the needs of orphaned children
• One Fiji – An opportunity for all Fijians to unite together, serve and help make a difference in the lives of the underprivileged of Fiji
• Sai Prema Foundation collaborated with the Fiji National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) to embark upon various disaster relief operations after the destructive cyclones which ravaged many parts of Fiji.
• Sai Prema Foundation collaborated with United Nations to serve the furthest region in Fiji, the Lau group of islands. Residents of these villages were provided with ration kits and basic necessities after the destructive cyclones in Fiji
• Sai Prema Foundation partnered with the New Zealand High Commission and the New Zealand Government’s Foreign Affairs Aid programme to serve the thousands of underprivileged and needy families across Fiji with:
  • Ration packs containing food and groceries to the families which are unemployed due to the devastating impact of COVID on Fiji
  • Healthy breakfast programme to the children in rural Fiji, as well as underprivileged families living in poverty
  • Agricultural seeds to help families grow fruits and vegetables as a source of permanent food supply for their families, as well as encouraging them to slowly transform from backyard gardening to agricultural business in order to get a sustainable form of income
  • Sanitary items to women in rural Fiji, who are unable to afford effective sanitary care
  • Standard and disability-friendly handwashing stations in rural areas of Fiji to encourage greater hygiene, especially among young children
• Sai Prema Foundation collaborated with Asco Foundation Fiji and United Sports Club New Zealand to serve underprivileged and needy families with food packs
• Sai Prema Foundation also partnered with Pleass Global Ltd to provide water to frontline workers based at the Ministry of Health’s COVID relief facilities
• Sai Prema Foundation and A1 Safety & Packaging New Zealand to distribute $60,000 worth of hand sanitisers and hand wipes to the vaccination teams across Fiji
• Sai Prema Foundation and European Union collaborated to distribute COVID protection face masks to communities across Fiji
• Sai Prema Foundation regularly serve individuals, who are residents of institutions such as orphanages, visual impairment, hearing impairment, mental and physical disabilities, etc. with necessary food provisions as well as quality healthcare
• Sai Prema Foundation in collaboration with Life Flight Fiji, Digicel Tonga, Punjas Fiji and YachtAid Global helped the people of Tonga, where a devastating volcanic eruption disrupted the lives of people
• United Nations Association of Fiji (UNAF) and Sai Prema Foundation Fiji (SPF) have formalised a collaborative partnership agreement through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU to achieve the vision, goals and objectives that UNAF and SPF have in common as well as to develop greater co-operation, understanding, strategic alliance and partnership with the goal of serving and making a difference to the underprivileged and needy people of Fiji through a number of projects and initiative.