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Northern Region RAWCS

Making your Clubs Effort Count

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As a Rotarian it is important for us to contribute to humanitarian causes. How many times has your Club supported a request for an overseas project and sent off a cheque? Have you collected surplus to requirement goods and sent them to an overseas Club for distribution? or Maybe your club has sent a Rotarian offshore to build or grow something that will make an important difference to a village, a school, a health centre? Do you know how to go about it?

It is not difficult and there are Rotarians and websites already in place to help you.

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FORGET ME NOT CHILDRENS HOME

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The story of the Forget Me Not Childrens Home in Nepal was told to Rotarians of D9640 at the October meeting of RAWCS. In what was an inspiring presentation Rotarian Lars Olsen spoke with passion about this project which was his brainchild in 2006.

The Forget Me Not home focuses on providing a family structure for each of the children in their care. The children are educated in great schools and they are provided with a secure environment where kids are free to be kids.

The program has grown to support projects in Nepal and Uganda, and there is a child sponsorship program available, which offers a unique and personal connection unlike any other.

Please read the full story by clicking on the read more button below.

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Samoa Story Synopsis

Gold Coast Rotarians Building Communities Bridging Continents.

19 Rotarians and friends from the rotary clubs of Surfers Sunrise, Lane Cove and Ashmore/Coomera River travelled to Samoa late August to carry out a pre-school building project. It all began many months ago with a new member briefing evening which inspired a new Rotarian to be a silent donor for a request which had been made to the Surfers Sunrise Wheelchair Foundation.

The village of Matafaa in Samoa had been badly impacted by the September 9, 2009 tsunami and were one of many villages in need. A Sunrise member surveyed the village during a cruise which included Samoa and plans were made to pre-build a 12m x 6 metre school room and other items.

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Ngari Nurses' Aid Station - Solomon Islands

Ngari Nurses’ Aid Station,

On Monday 22nd March, 2010, the first team of eight Rotary volunteers led by District 9600 RAWCS Chair, Trevor Taylor, from the Glasshouse Mountains Club left Australia for Gizo to begin construction of a Nurses’ Aid Station in a remote area, known as Ngari.

The project was unusual (and something of an experiment) drawing Rotarians together from clubs in two districts to finance and undertake a fairly large project in the space of four weeks.

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Next RAWCS Meeting

The next RAWCS Northern Region Meeting will be held on 26th May 2012 at 9am, at the Australian Army Malaria Insititute, Enoggera.
The Annual Conference and Dinner of Rotarians against Malaria (RAM) will also be held at this location.


Full details are available by downloading the flyer from here.

Registrations are mandatory for this for Conference and must be received by COB 11 May 2012.

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Child Protection Laws

“that, whatever law applies in the State where the Volunteer lives will be the requirement for all RAWCS Project Volunteer Teams”.

This means, that, all future Project Volunteers from –
1) Qld – will be required to produce a copy of a current Blue Card;
2) NSW – will be required to complete a Volunteer Child Protection Form

Future Meeting Dates

25 Aug 2012 -      Brisbane
RAWCS -Exec Meeting, AGM & Training
Details to be advised following May Meeting

11-12 Nov 2012 - Dist 9600

 

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