With three hyperbaric oxygen chambers operating over 600 hours per month, the direct operating expenses are just an average of $2,300 per month. That is dirt cheap but still a challenge for us to continue finding that much money each month.

Why so low? We pay no rent as the three chambers are operating out of a private home. We pay no salaries since the entire project is managed with volunteers.

Operating funds are collected from direct donations from patients, those who are able, direct donations from the public, help from civic clubs, other Masonic organizations and churches. The amount collected each month varies widely, but not in our best month, have we collected $2,300. Therefore, one or two volunteers make up the difference. It should not be that way.

Please make a donation. Fifty dollars or a hundred will make a dent in the $2,300, and if enough help, we will have the necessary funds.

A couple of ways to do this: Easiest is to go to our website, also maintained by a volunteer, and make a contribution using PAYPAL. You can do this by credit card without leaving the chair you are now sitting in!

The other way is to send a check make payable to Selama Grotto CP Endowment, Inc, and mail it to Selama Grotto, ATTN: Hyperbaric Center Donations, 3000 – 16th Street North, St. Petersburg, Florida 33704.

Our 501(c)(3) non profit status IRS letter is on our website.

This month, we have 13 autistic children, some with seizures. Other maladies include a three-generation family with Lyme’s disease (yes, grandmother, single mother and her son), a 2-year old boy who suffered a stroke last year, the Bloomingdale Library Attack victim, who moved her arms for the first time since the attack in April, 2008, and many others.

If we receive funds to purchase a replacement chamber for the oldest chamber, now inoperative and uneconomically repairable, we will have a fourth chamber in operation at the Center. We need $23,000 for that, of which we raised $10,000 to date.

Any help you can provide will be appreciate, and will help us stay in operation.

Thank you,

Mark Fowler & Hardy Bryan