The concept of the IBE Solidarity Fund was introduced in recent years by Philip Lee, Immediate Past President, who saw it as a means of supporting IBE Members in developing countries, to enable them play an active role in IBEs activities, where lack of available funds would otherwise have prevented this. The fund is now also used to support the annual dues payments of members in countries deemed to be Low Income according to World Bank figures. Since 2007 the fund was also used to support the Promising Strategy Projects.
All donations to the fund are gratefully accepted, no matter how small, and are acknowledged in the IE News.
IBE would like to thank the following, who donated to the fund.
Solidarity Fund Donations in 2012:
- China Assocation Against Epilepsy, China
- Indian Epilepsy Association, India
- Caritas – Malta Epilepsy Association. Malta
- Epilepsy Association of South Australia and the Northern Territory Inc, Australia
- Epilepsy Hospital Bethel, Japan
- Epilepsy Queensland Inc., Australia
- Japanese Epilepsy Association, Japan
- Epilepsy & Environment Association of Georgia, Georgia
Solidarity Fund Donations in 2011:
- Epilepsy Connections, Scotland
- Epilepsy Action Australia
- Indian Epilepsy Association, India
- Caritas – Malta Epilepsy Association
- Slovenian League Against Epilepsy
- Swiss Epilepsy Centre
- ParEpi, Switzerland
- Epilepsy New Zealand
- China Assocation Against Epilepsy
- Canadian Epilepsy Alliance, Canada
- Epilepsy Queensland, Australia
- Swedish Epilepsy Association, Sweden
- Epilepsie Vereniging Nederland, Netherlands
- Epilepsy Foundation of America
- Epilepsy Australia
- Stichting Kempenhaeghe, Netherlands
- ANLICHE, Chile
- Joint Epilepsy Council of Australia, Australia
- Cyprus Association for People with Epilepsy
- Japan Epilepsy Association
- Epilepsy Hospital Bethel, Japan
- Asociación Española de Ayuda a la Epilepsia, Spain
- Korean Epilepsy Association, Korea
- Taiwan Epilepsy Association, Taiwan
- Epilepsy & Environment Association of Georgia
Solidarity Fund Donations in 2010:
- Epilepsy Foundation of America
- Epilepsie-France, France
- Epilepsy Action Australia, Australia
- Swiss Epilepsy Center, Switzerland
- EVN Epilepsie Vereiniging, Netherlands
- Stichting Kempenhaeghe, Netherlands
- Epi-Suisse, Switzerland
- Swedish Epilepsy Association, Sweden
- Greek Association Against Epilepsy, Greece
- Epilepsy Hospital Bethel, Japan
- Epilepsy Connections, Scotland
- Indian Epilepsy Association, India
- Canadian Epilepsy Alliance, Canada
- Epilepsy Australia, Australia
- Joint Epilepsy Council of Australia, Australia
- Cyprus Association for People with Epilepsy, Cyprus
- Caritas Malta Epilepsy Association, Malta
- Taiwan Epilepsy Association, Taiwan
- Epilepsy Association of South Australia and the Northern Territory Inc, Australia
- Anita Kaufmann Foundation, USA
- ANLICHE, Chile
- Epilepsy & Environment Association of Georgia
- Korean Epilepsy Association, Korea
- China Association Against Epilepsy
- Epilepsy Queensland
Solidarity Fund Donations in 2009:
- Epilepsy Foundation of America
- Epilepsy Connections, Scotland
- Epi-Suisse, Switzerland
- Par-Epi, Switzerland
- JECA, Australia
- Swiss Epilepsy Centre, Switzerland
- Epilepsy Queensland, Australia
- Stichting Kempenhaeghe, Netherlands
- Epilepsie Vereniging
- Slovenian League Against Epilepsy
- Taiwan Epilepsy Association
- Epilepsy Australia, Australia
- Epilepsy Hospital Bethel, Japan
- Canadian Epilepsy Alliance, Canada
- The Swedish Epilepsy Association, Sweden
- Lithuanian Association for Integration of People with Epilepsy (LESIA)
- ANLICHE, Chile
- Cyprus Association for People with Epilepsy, Cyprus
- Epilepsy & Environment Association of Georgia
- Associação Brasileira de Epilepsia, Brazil
- Indian Epilepsy Association, India
- National Epilepsie Fonds, Netherlands
Solidarity Fund Donations in 2008:
- Epilepsy Foundation of America
- Epilepsy Hospital Bethel, Japan
- Swedish Epilepsy Association, Sweden
- Swiss Epilepsy Centre, Switzerland
- Greek National Association Against Epilepsy, Greece
- ANLICHE, Chile
- Indian Epilepsy Association, India
- Epilepsy Association of South Australia and the Northern Territory Inc., Australia
- Epilepsy Vereniging Nederland, The Netherlands
- Enlighten Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Cyprus Association for People with Epilepsy, Cyprus
- Jamaican Epilepsy Association, Jamaica
- AEAE, Spain
- Nepal Epilepsy Association, Nepal
- EDYCS, Mauritius
- EOLE, France
- China Epilepsy Association, China
- LESIA, Lithuania
- Epilepsy and Environment, Georgia
- Caritas, Malta