Rotary Club of Sunbury
Service Above SelfDistrict 9790 Australia www.rotaryclubsunbury.org.au
Welcome to the International Service Page
Committee: Saby Sebastian (Chair), Leigh Mackie(A/C), Les Whorlow, Ian Lupson, Andrew Free, Robert Iles.
Please take the time to look at some of our Projects
Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM) is the RAWCS program dedicated to the fight against Malaria, one of the major health threats in the world today.
Malaria is a potentially fatal blood disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted to human and animal hosts by the Anopheles mosquito.
More than two billion people live at risk from Malaria. With more than 500 million infected with the parasite, 2-3 million die of the disease each year.
RAM's current programs are focused on the Pacific region, particularly the Solomon Islands and Papua-New Guinea, using long-life, insecticide-treated bed nets to protect people during the evening, when mosquitoes feed. The nets not only protect the people sleeping beneath them, but also kill mosquitoes that come in contact.
Using the Adopt-a-Village program and funds from Rotary Matching Grants, RAM will supply the treated bed-nets to villagers in a planned program.
Click on picture for link to RAWCS website.
PP George Jacob of Kottayam East Club has requested our assistance to supply hospital equipments for a neglected government hospital in India.
Collection of used spectacles and glasses for Ghana.
Donations In Kind (DIK) is the program whereby Rotarians and Rotary Clubs source surplus goods and products within Australia that have no further use here and provide them to regions which can utilise them.
Rotary's Donations In Kind program provides a central coordination point for storage, packing and dispatch of goods for local and international efforts, minimising the costs associated with getting goods to where they are needed in the world.
If you have quantities of goods, equipment or products that you no longer need but that could be utilised by others in need, please make contact with Donations In Kind. Your contribution could make a big difference in someone's life somewhere in the world. Click on picture for link to RAWCS website.
In September 2009, members of the Rotary Club of Sunbury were part of a trip to India for us to see the work our matching grant had achieved in The Precious Children Project. Participants found the trip truly amazing and enlightening in seeing first hand the many and varied works of Rotary International. During this trip they had the privilege to visit Prakshpalaya a remote Village four hours drive from Bangalore. Aquaboxes are rapidly deployed to disaster areas to provide safe water treatment. Std Aquabox provides 2,000L water & humanitarian goods.
Exhange with rotarians from India.
Scholarship program in Sri Lanka.
More visits by Rotarians to India for polio vaccinations and further work on the The Precious Children Project
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Rotary hearts went out to these children and their enormous thirst for education, that lets them endure less than adequate accommodation, which lacks basic safe and hygienic conditions. Their plight cannot be ignored and a truly achievable goal has been set for a group of Rotarians from District 9790.
There is a need to raise $130,000.00 to build basic accommodation ( Not achievable through matching grants due to the Global financial Crisis ). Michael McCabe the Foundation Chair for the Rotary Club of Sunbury and with your help believe that is quite achievable. He urges your club or you, as an individual to help us in giving these children the most basic of human needs. Michael looks forward to your response to this most worthy cause. For further information