The new Shower Truck ordered for Adelaide will be present for inspection and more information about the project will be provided by the Director of One Voice, Josh Wilkins.
They also serve...
The Cottage By The Sea breakfast barbeque was done by David and Liz Sykes and past member Geoff Coward and we thank them for attending to this on behalf of our Club this year when other members were occupied at the Showgrounds.
The Fifth Monday
29 Monday is our 5th Monday at Christ Church Meals. If you haven't had a go at this and would like to, please see Jenny Acopian.
Ballarat South Raffle
We will have sold 300 books by the final day before Robert and Ron Carroll return butts, books and money and we will make around $5,000.00.
Once again, many thanks to Robert and the Dunlops and to all those who sold tickets.
Interplast
The annual report from Interplast has just been released, and it is a staggering report of the breadth of activity that has followed on from that initial Rotary initiative in 1983.
A further 853 patients were operated on, from Mongolia in the north to Tonga in the south. This brings the number of patients who have been directly helped by Interplast to very close to 30,000.
But more importantly the training opportunities that have followed on have led to whole populations of developing communities receiving raised levels of medical and surgical management. Not only surgery, anaesthesia and nursing, but physiotherapists and burns management teams have all contributed significantly to the lives of these communities
And Rotary is at the forefront still, with many volunteers, let alone a contribution of 18% of the funding required to run Interplast Inc. (nearly $3,000,000 pa).
And DFAT are as always, very supportive (23% of funding) which is an index of what hard nosed (and financially challenged) bureaucrats think of the worth of Interplast.
So worth a good read. And great to show the breadth and depth of what Rotary Can achieve.
See the full report
The link is https://www.interplast.org.au/learn-more/our-organisation/publications/
John Oswald
Chairman Interplast Committee Rotary District 9780