Roderick Barker

KOVB: The Roderick Barker Pilgrimage page

Fundraising for St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group
£1,247
raised of £2,000 target
Pilgrimages & other challenges for St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital, 25 April 2022
We bring vital eye care to isolated communites

Story

My Team and I are completing Challenges to raise money to support the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital. 

I am in my mid-Sixties and have so far completed a more than five hundred kilometre solo pilgrimage from the great shrine of St James at Santiago di Compostella, Spain to that of Our Lady in Fatima, Portugal, and a further Monopoly Board Challenge with the Team.

In 2024 I am planning to complete a pilgrimage to Canterbury, raising funds towards the Team's current target of £25,000* to purchase  a Large Steam Autoclave for the new Nablus Day Hospital opening this summer.  This sterilises medical equipment for eye surgeries there & other vital uses. At least 35% of Eye Hospital patients are children who, if not helped by the age of seven, may lose much of their sight from conditions that would be automatically dealt with in the UK. Please help us help them. If we can raise this total we can help vital surgery & continue the mission of Saving Sight and Changing Lives.

Please help us help save the sight of children and the needy in the Holy Land by donating as generously as you are able.

*At time of writing the Team total raised is more than £42,000 including gift aid (towards an overall 2024 target of £60,670 to add the Steam Autoclave to the equipment already purchsed for the Eye Hospital).

You can follow us on Twitter: @KnightsVision, 

Instagram: @KnightsoftheVision 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Knights-of-the-Vision-Beautiful

To learn more about the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital's excellent and amazing work their YouTube channel is very informative and I would at least suggest the following short videos:

The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NKtgvPbGiw

A Day at St John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7kha6aQhw

Yazan's Story (the boy pictured above): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZjRfsqx4Pg

A day with Mobile Outreach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSfnQhBlmg

And for a longer look, the Eyes of St John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0LLVF70DJQ

Please give as generously as your circumstances in life may fairly permit to support this wonderful cause.

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About the charity

St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group is the only charitable provider of expert eye care in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, treating patients regardless of ethnicity, religion or ability to pay.

Donation summary

Total raised
£1,246.29
+ £191.25 Gift Aid
Online donations
£1,246.29
Offline donations
£0.00

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