International Service
2011 - 2012
The International Service Director is responsible to the District Governor for supervising the International Service sub-committees in their endeavours to assist Clubs in supporting a wide range of projects in various parts of the world.
DIRECTOR:
PP Mike Woods Salamanca H) 6243 5904 (B) 6248 6270 0408 508 299
ROTARY AUSTRALIA WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE (RAWCS)
This committee encourages clubs to support involvement in RAWCS projects. PROJECT FUNDING, Project Volunteers [ROTARY VOLUNTEERS] form teams of local Rotarians who travel to nearby countries to carry out specific projects. DONATIONS IN KIND [DIK] coordinates the collection and transport of useful items to developing countries in the region. ROTARIANS AGAINST MALARIA [RAM] supports anti-malaria projects in selected countries in the Asia/Pacific region.
RAWCS District Chair: PP Terry Lobban [Lyn] Bellerive [H] 6244 5605 [M] 0419 100 945
COMMITTEE:PP Graeme Page Westbury
PP Julie Pinel Devonport SE
Diana Butler South Launceston
Steen Anderson Deloraine
PP Dave Emanuel SorellUpdate on Fiji 3H Project on ROTAHOMES Project
More Tasmanian information here
Inspect the ROTAHOMES village in Fiji
RAWCS National website
DONATIONS IN KIND
Goods and products, from which organisations in Tasmania have no further use are valuable commodities in developing countries. Central coordination, storage, packing and dispatch leads to efficiencies in Club’s efforts in minimising shipping costs.
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Rotary has developed a partnership in July 2010 with Tasmanian Public Libraries so that thousands of unwanted books are not pulped but sent to RAWCS Donations in Kind Projects. Rotary's Terry Lobban said 25 cubic metres of books are likely to be sent to projects in the South Pacific. More details
Delivery of Donations–in–Kind Goods to District Storage Container at Graeme Page’s Property at Carrick
Before delivering goods to the District DIK Storage Container at Carrick, please contact Graham Dent on mobile 0408 135 732, home 6397 3192 or Email: dentgs@bigpond.com
The DIK coordinators need to know where and what the goods are designated for and who is coordinating the proposed shipment. That person should contact Graham Dent or Terry Lobban (0419 100 945) so Graham and Terry are aware of what’s being organised.
ROTARY VOLUNTEERS.
The Volunteer program enables skilled and unskilled [but handy, willing or both] people to spend two weeks working in a developing country as a member of a Team of RAWCS Volunteers. Volunteers will return with a significantly enhanced understanding of themselves and enduring friendships of the highest quality.
ROTARIANS AGAINST MALARIA. [RAM]
This District program in the Solomon Islands provides chemically impregnated bed nets to villages, resulting in a 90% reduction in incidences of malaria.
The real success story is the fantastic reduction in the incidence of malaria among children. These results achieved in PNG, are directly attributable to the use of Insecticide Treated Bed Nets and the general improvement in health that the people are now enjoying as a result of this intervention:
Big reductions in the number of premature births;
General increase in birth weight;
any children’s wards in hospitals enjoying a significant reduction in malaria cases or all the beds in these wards are completely empty malaria cases.
The reduction in the incidence of malaria has resulted in an increase in children attending school with a shortage in class room accommodation and teachers as a result.
RAM has also been very successful in the Solomon Islands; in some areas the overall reduction in the incidence of malaria has fallen from, over 330 per 1,000 population per year to below 20 per 1,000 per year.
More details
RAWCS National website
RAM National websiteLearn-Grow (Food Plants International)
Learn ♦ Grow is a unique Tasmanian initiative which is providing an avenue for Rotary world-wide to achieve something to which it has long aspired – making a tangible contribution to hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. [see advertisement]. It is based on the Food Plants International [FPI] database created by Tasmanian agricultural scientist, Bruce French.
In developing communities many local plants are nutritionally far superior to “Western” food crops. Local plants thrive because they are naturally adapted to local conditions. If the chronic malnutrition deficiencies in a population are determined, it is easy to use the database to identify and grow a wide variety of local plants with the richest source of these missing nutrients.
Information Kits are available to effectively communicate the Learn-Grow message to Clubs. It includes: an instruction sheet on how to use the instruction kit; brochures; a disc containing presentation materials [DVD and Powerpoint]; as well as examples of resource materials.
Does your Club have an aid project in mind with water, literacy, sanitation, or water aims? It is simple to incorporate Learn ♦ Grow into existing or new projects.
The Learn ♦ Grow project continues to create international interest within and without Rotary internationally. There are now four Rotary districts involved in the development of Learn ♦ Grow programs assisting developing nations address malnutrition and food security.
Three of these districts are Australian but we are pleased to have one district in the USA also involved.DISTRICT CHAIR:
Rtn Buz Green, (Robyn) Devonport North (H) 64244720 (W) 6498 6800 (M) 0419 306 900
COMMITTEECOMMITTEE:
PDG Lou Johnson Launceston West
PAG Clare Klapche Tamar Sunrise
PP John Phillips Devonport North
Colin McQueen Launceston
Ross Graham Ulverstone West
also Bruce/Deb French; John McPhee;
Find out more about Learn ♦ Grow.
RI has now accepted Learn<>Grow as a Rotary Action Group (RAG) under the title Food Plant Solutions Action Group.
ROMAC AND INTERPLAST
Both programs provide plastic and reconstructive surgery for children. ROMAC brings severe cases to Australia for treatment. Interplast performs the surgery in neighbouring regions and also trains local medical staff.
ROMAC really needs your club to support the humanitarian work that your multi-district, RI approved, ROMAC program does for it’s many ‘forgotten’ children. .
ROMAC is run entirely by Rotarian volunteers, just like you, and has proudly restored the dignity and saved the lives of almost 400 underprivileged and deserving children.
Chair: PDG Muriel Heron [Col] Moonah (H) 6244 4937 (M) 0419 404 937
Romac
ROMAC Australia website http://www.romac.org.au/
Interplast
An Interplast Team visited Solomon Islands in 2008 Read the report by Rotary Observer - Walter van Schie (Moonah) -click here
Interplast National website www.interplast.com.au
Australian Newsletters http://www.interplast.com.au/News
ROTARY FRIENDSHIP EXCHANGE
This committee promotes and organises international friendship exchanges for Rotarians and their partners with other Rotary districts in different countries. These exchanges are open to all Rotarians and are an inexpensive way to meet people in different parts of the world. All exchanges are reciprocal.
Chair: PDG Paul Grubb [Ann], Claremont. [H] 6261 1511 [M] 0438 611 511
COMMITTEE: PAG Lesley Dare Deloraine
ROTARY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Rotarians around the world share an interest in a specific vocational and recreational activity and exchange their Rotary experiences. They are a fun and easy way to become involved in a global Rotary community.
Australian Cricketing Fellowship Cricket Fellowship in District 9830
Australian Golfing Fellowship http://www.agfr.org/
A list of Fellowship contacts available here ..
Further group details are at www.rotary.org/fellowships
Download the " FELLOWSHIP ADVANCER " 1M pdf download
A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE
(From Rotary Global History Group)
ROTARY SHOE BOX SCHEME
Facilitates humanitarian aid program to allow children and members of the community to be involved in providing aid to the less fortunate.
District Coordinator: PP Terry Lobban [Lyn] Bellerive [H] 6244 5605 [M] 0419 100 945
For the brochure providing details of
the Rotary Shoebox Scheme. click here