Warren Loos, the founder of Smartview Financial Services Pty Ltd has been actively involved in several Lions Community Service Projects since being a member of the Lions Club of Moorooka for the last 5 years.

2. In September 2014 on hearing that over 22,000 people (mostly young males less
than 50 years) had died of Chronic Kidney Disease or, CKD as it is commonly
known, in the previous six years in the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa Districts
in Sri Lanka and that these Department of Health statistics also revealed that the
prevalence of CKD disease was reaching epidemic proportions with the
incidence of CKD doubling every four years(4% in 2004, 8%in 2008 and 16% in
2012), Warren Loos of the Lions Club of Moorooka Australia contacted the late
Deepal Pieris - ex President of the Lions Club of Borella, whom he knew
personally, to initiate and sponsor a project to address this humanitarian cause
with most CKD patients succumbing to the disease after suffering immensely for
long periods.
In the spirit of Lionism, the Lions Club of Moorooka and the Lions Club of Borella
in partnership with LCIF launched a CKD project called the Sri Lanka Clean Water
Appeal to raise funds to provide clean drinking water through a Reverse Osmosis
process to villages in these areas as studies by academics, scientists, the medical
profession and the WHO over the years pointed out that the only way to prevent
CKD disease in these areas is to provide pure drinking water through a Reverse
Osmosis process.
On 28th October 2014 the project was launched at the Yeronga RSL Hall and
following a detailed and informative presentation by Ian Towers – President of
the Lions Club of Moorooka, $9,000 was raised on the night itself. Subsequently
through a dinner dance, a raffle and donations from Lions members and well-
wishers, a total of $30,000 was raised by the Lions Club of Moorooka and the
Lions Club International Foundation provided a grant of $25,000. With these
funds, two large Reverse Osmosis plant providing 10,000 litres of water per day
were installed at two big cluster villages.
Additionally, Scott Walker, who was present at the project launch, contributed
an additional $100,000 and these funds were utilised for procuring 17 small
Reverse Osmosis plants providing 2200 litres of water per day as well as three
medium size Reverse Osmosis plants providing 5500 litres of water per day to 19
small villages and the Nochiyagama Hospital.
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