Updates

We at the ROW Foundation want to say “THANK YOU” for your support in 2019. With your help, we were able to dramatically improve – and in many cases save – the lives of thousands of people with epilepsy and associated psychiatric disorders throughout the world. While there’s not enough room in this letter to cover everything…

We are asking you to join us in supporting GLO’s medication costs for 2020, with either a one-time or a monthly donation via our website. 100% of your donation will go directly to GLO to support their life-changing work. Your donation has a direct and meaningful impact on the lives of people with epilepsy in Uganda.

While untreated epilepsy can wreak havoc on people of any age, children in under-resourced regions of the world are particularly vulnerable. Poor and delayed recognition of seizures can lead to significant developmental impairments.

Accurate diagnosis of epilepsy is crucial in its management. Electroencephalogram (EEG) tests help to diagnose epilepsy and to establish the correct treatment. Interpreting the test requires specialists who are in short supply in under-resourced countries.

Earlier this year, ROW launched the Amanda Award to honor the memory of Amanda Brooke de los Santos, who passed away from seizures at a young age. Each year, ROW will award a grant to an organization with a track record of achieving meaningful results in addressing untreated epilepsy.

Last month our Director of Global Programs, Ken Koskela, visited the CURE Children’s Hospital of Uganda. CURE Uganda (https://cure.org/uganda/) is doing world class work in neurosurgery for very poor patients. Uganda has many cases...

Through the generosity of our social enterprise partner, OWP Pharmaceuticals, ROW made a grant of 50 cases of RoweepraXR® (levetiracetam USP) to the West Atlantic Brain and Stroke Foundation. The medicine is headed to their Purple Clinic epilepsy...

In 2017, two Loma Linda University Health (LLUH) physicians travelled to Malawi, a country of 18 million in southeastern Africa. They helped install a new EEG system and launch an epilepsy monitoring unit at Malamulo Hospital, a 250-bed facility in rural southern Malawi.