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District Governor:

Shia Smart

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Interplast - Surgical & Training Teams

In the 2018 – 2019 Rotary year, Interplast Australia & New Zealand Districts delivered 72 Programs. They included 13 Surgical and 48 Training Programs across 17 countries, see map. A total of 518 patients had surgery and of these 56% were male and 44% were female. District 9810 delivered 4 Surgical and 2 Training Programs. In September 2018 to Samoa (Surgical), November 2018 to Cagayan de Oro and to Baguio, both in the Philippines (Surgical and Training), and then in early 2019 to Labasa, Fiji (Surgical).

The cost of a Surgical Program is $45,000. When this target is reached, a program is selected and organized. If a Club wishes to send an Observer then an additional payment of $5,000 is required from the club.

Donations to Interplast can be made on line; www.interplast.org.au, or by bank transfer: BSB: Westpac 033 364, Account: 36 1633 Interplast Australia & New Zealand. When donating would you please advise the District 9810 Chair of your donation (details in District Directory).

Many thanks for your generous donations to date.

Interplast has Medical personnel who give their time and skills to repair and rebuild lives of people in the Asia Pacific Region who cannot afford medical services. By donating to Interplast you are enhancing people’s health and wellbeing by enabling access to life-changing reconstructive surgery and related medical services, including in house training.

PP Liz Guiver

District 9810 Interplast Chair

(RC Warrandyte Donvale)

Committee: Brian Hodgson, Harvey Lane, Peter Lewis, Geoff Weeks & Bob Williams. If you would like to join the Committee then please let me (Liz) know as you would be most welcome!

A Shipment of Toiletries

It was an email from District Secretary, Judith Eadon that set District Rotarians into action, heading off to a factory in Heidelberg West to collect boxes of toiletries. A shipment of toiletries had been donated to Rotary by a corporate supplier. The products were within “best by” dates and in perfect condition.

The provisos for collecting any of the products was that whole boxes be taken, that the products were not for sale, that they were intended to be donations to people being supported by Rotary and community groups, and that any appreciation expressed was to be to Rotary.

On Saturday, 10th August Rotarians from Districts 9800 and 9810, including Sandra and myself, on behalf of RC Monash, were like bees around a honey pot at the factory. After checking in and being given a list of goods each club had been allocated, we all buzzed around the various pallets to locate the individual boxes (oils, creams, moisturisers, etc.).

Sandra and I collected our allocated eight boxes. The beneficiary of our boxes was Impact for Women, an organisation that RC Monash supports.

(From their website (http://www.impactforwomen.org.au) Impact for Women notes that the organisation is a completely volunteer charity committed to making a difference to Victorian women and children fleeing extreme violence at home. The donated toiletries will be included in the “bags of love” which are provided to women for Mothers’ Day, and at Christmas. Further from the website: “We expect to be packing over 1500 Bags of Love to distribute to Victorian women in hiding due to family violence this Xmas - New Year's period.”)