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RAWCS

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 8833 8317

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23.01.2022 To donate to this project click here ---> https://donations.rawcs.com.au/5-2008-09 In early February 2020 a two week trip to Nepal was made by 10 Rotarians & Friends of Rotary to view "Gift of Sight" project Eye Camp screenings in remote areas & subsequent corrective cataract surgeries at the Hetauda Community Eye Hospital, all coordinated by the RC of Hetauda. Outcomes from the 5 screening sites resulted in a total of 967 screenings, diagnoses of 109 cataracts & subsequently..., 74 life- changing surgeries. A number of general eye treatments were also enacted on site, thus improving the lives of many. Where multiple surgeries were necessary, those patients were followed up within weeks. Their surgeries then performed at the Hetauda Eye Hospital & the patients returned to their villages to have a renewed life with their families. Group visits were also made to several other current & past Tasmanian-sponsored Rotary projects, incl the Blind School & its students in Hetauda, for which a further support project is currently being developed with the RC of Hetauda, to sponsor a near- full-time music teacher for the 18 blind children.

22.01.2022 DROUGHT COMMUNITIES OUTREACH PROGRAM RAWCS signed a partnership agreement with the Commonwealth Government on 12 June 2020 to assist in delivery of the Drought Communities Outreach Program [DCOP], an initiative of National Drought and Northern Queensland Flood Response and Recovery Agency. DCOP will be holding 70+ information events in selected towns throughout the drought declared areas for farming families directly impacted by the drought. The aim is to increase coordina...tion of drought support and enhance community awareness of the Australian Government’s drought assistance measures. Rotary’s role is to *Assist with community outreach delivery of these information events through wellbeing activities and BBQ catering. *Distribute $500 debit cards at these events as direct support to eligible farming households that are experiencing financial hardship due to drought, and improve levels of economic activity in regions by eligible recipients spending these cards in local communities and businesses. On 25 June 2020, RAWCS has received a grant of $5 million to fund its role. DCOP events will run from late July 2020 through to December 2020 and be held in all mainland states. The DCOP is currently finalising the list of towns where events will be held. Once received, RAWCS will complete the significant logistics required for our successful involvement. RAWCS DCOP project manager is RAWCS National Treasurer, Mike Whitehouse, and deputy project manager is RAWCS Deputy Chair, Dave Pearson. The DCOP have appointed four Department Prime Minister & Cabinet staff members with whom we will work closely to conduct the program. RAWCS is currently assessing drought impacted areas that will not have information events, with a view to distributing debit cards direct to eligible farming households within these areas during the program. The rollout of the DCOP program will be staged, with each stage being agreed between the partners. RAWCS will be communicating well in advance with District Governors regarding DCOP events that will be occurring in their Districts. This will include dates and locations of events and District Rotary Clubs which could be involved in the provision of BBQ’s and wellbeing activities. If Clubs choose to participate, they will be thoroughly briefed on their role at these information events. DCOP will fund a BBQ’s costs and provide a financial incentive to a club for participation.

22.01.2022 RAWCS has established a national project to provide funds for humanitarian programs to assist the people in Beirut recover from the recent disaster. Donate here ---> https://donations.rawcs.com.au/19-2020-21 Rest assured that funds managed by Rotary actually get to where they are needed most based on our best advice.... Any assistance you can provide will be appreciated.

19.01.2022 It’s very difficult to wash your hands regularly with soap and running fresh water if you don’t have a tap. Now, a RAWCS - Rotary Australia World Community Serv...ice project, Hand Hygiene For Health and SPATAP Portable Tap, is tackling this problem in the Pacific. In 2012, Stuart Mason, a member of the Rotary Club of Noosa Heads, Rotary District 9600, stumbled across an idea when he picked up a bottle of warm water from the boot of his car to wash his hands and half the contents ended up on the ground. After much trial and error, Stuart developed a system called SPATAP Portable Tap, which enables handwashing and personal hygiene with limited water supplies, and yet is very portable and simple to use. A silicone fitting transforms any bottle or container made of plastic, glass or metal into a flow-controllable tap that can dispense water in three different ways depending on the user’s needs. The Hand Hygiene for Health handwashing project has already proved its worth in many underdeveloped schools in the South Pacific, but the need is great and there are many more schools that need our help. There are requests from communities across the Pacific to access this simple technology, especially now during the current COVID-19 crisis. Within Australia, the system has huge potential to address diseases like trachoma and diarrhoea in remote communities, where access to taps and water is very limited. Read the full story in the August edition of Rotary Down Under. http://www.epubs.media/rotarydownund//2020/630/index.html #Rotary #RotaryOpensOpportunities #DoingGood #InternationalDayOfTheWorldsIndigenousPeoples

19.01.2022 This video talks about how living according to the values we know to be good protects us from depression and anxiety. RAWCS helps us do that :-) https://www.ted.com//johann_hari_this_could_be_why_you_re_

19.01.2022 A baby born in the Arthur Wina Memorial Maternity Hospital in Nalolo Zambia assisted by equipment shipped from the Rotary Australia World Community Service's Donations in Kind facility at Edinburgh South Australia.

18.01.2022 Rotary Hay drop in drought areas.

18.01.2022 Didi Foundation has an online raffle with absolutely fabulous prizes such as accommodation at Seal Rocks, in the Hunter Valley and Newcastle together with a sailing trip on Lake Macquarie. Check out the raffle here: https://www.rafflelink.com.au/didi-vs-covid Or if you prefer to make a tax deductible donation: https://directory.rawcs.com.au/60-2012-13... 100% of funds raised will go to Nepal to support our work. Nepal like most developing countries has been ravaged by COVID. 208,000 recorded active cases. Sadly, there was 1 when I came home in March. During the nine months, we have continued to pay staff wages so that they can maintain their families and extended families as Nepal has been in and out of lockdown and poverty is ripe. We are hoping after this current festive season Didi HQ’s will kick start all women’s education programs with strict COVID rules. The Didi Foundation works in Nepal to provide free vocational education to highly vulnerable women. 82% of our women are able to gain some form of employment. 20% of these women start their own businesses. We also have a children’s home (all teenagers now) who have been given a wonderful life opportunity to succeed. Check us out www.didifoundation.org.au https://www.facebook.com/didifoundation

15.01.2022 I wonder if anyone here might consider sponsoring a law student in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? The sponsorship is tax deductible through Rotary Australia World Community Service and the student is Eric Baeni Tumaini. I (Penny Vos) have met him twice in person, in 2015 and 2018 and have been in weekly contact between those times and since. Eric speaks Swahili, French, Esperanto and English (rather unusual in DRC) and is a fine student all-round. He has a strong sense... of personal responsibility and has been serving as a voluntary tutor for several years already. In the attached photo, he is with a group of children whom he assists to correspond with a class at Elonera Montessori school in Wollongong. Eric had a sponsor who helped him to complete the first year of his law degree, but the sponsor has new problems of his own and cannot continue. Eric’s course costs about US$600 a year, and he can live on about the same again. If anyone wants to talk to Eric in person, he is on Facebook, and would enjoy the contact. The tax-deductible donation link is https://donations.rawcs.com.au/Default.aspx? ProjectID=1152&ReturnTo=4. Thank you for considering this kindness See more

15.01.2022 Have you seen the videos in our YouTube Channel. Suitable for playing during club get togethers, none longer than 2 mins. https://youtube.com/channel/UCNhCL6NvxOAa-RuLLFQSpvA

15.01.2022 Whatever your region, now would be a great time to download the Achievement Inventory for 2020-21 and start filling it in, add to it through the year and send it in next June 30th so we know what we are achieving together. Find the download link here-

07.01.2022 Report from Director of Operations, Vanuatu: The track to the mountainous villages around Iatap are so steep and rugged that their mums find it difficult to com...e deliver their new born babies in the hospital due to rough rugged tracks which caused the trucks unable to go to these villages. For many years the communities have wanted the government through the department of Public works to help them build by man power which means the government supplies them with tools they build the roads but many a time there will always be not enough tools. This year there was a mother who delivered her new born baby on the way to the hospital. After walking for three kilometers at night, the men had to carry her down to where the road was good enough to picked up to go the hospital where they were given treatment and postnatal care. While there in July the TAFEA Public Works Department Manager, upon hearing that Bridging Health was distributing very good spades and shovels from Australia for the Traditional Gardening Project, came forward and asked me (Enneth Ilaisa) if I could supply him some tools to build an access road for Iatap, and more for the surrounding communities inland. I did not hesitate, as the risk to the lives of mothers and babies when they are born in the bush or mud is very high. Within days this access road was built by hand, and now Iatap and other communities will be able to receive medical help much quicker. Thank you to Pawanka Fund who funded the shipment of tools for this project and ‘Bridging Health in Vanuatu’ (a RAWCS - Rotary Australia World Community Service) for your support which is making our communities stronger!

06.01.2022 Well, project people, you are part of the for-purpose sector. Have your say!

06.01.2022 Do you use Instagram? RAWCS does! Follow us there to see our news and to show a younger set what we are doing in the world. We could always use more help, couldn't we? https://www.instagram.com/rawcs_rotary_australia/

06.01.2022 Education Care Projects Kenya exists to give educational opportunities to underprivileged children and young adults in Kenya. We have children enrolled in many schools and so what helps those schools also helps our children. We have Kenyan partners who monitor the well being of our children and make sure everything is happening as it should. Kisaru Nkera Initatives (KINI) cares for our children and so we help them when we can. We helped equip their new ECD Centre and gave ide...as and training to the teacher. Delivered a 'Teacher in a Box' to Iltolish Mara Primary School. Hands of Hope Academy cares for our street children. It is their home and school if they are in primary school and their holiday home if they are in High School. We facilitated their move to a new school complex and funded urgent repairs. Painted their dining room repaired and painted dormitories and redesigned the water supply making it much more efficient. Plus we visited all but two of our Maasai children at their schools encouraging them, meeting their teachers and getting first-hand reports of their progress. We also helped set up the Hands of Hope Office. Team No: NR3-2019-20 Team Leader: Carole Platt Project No: 1-2013-14

06.01.2022 Another fabulous Rotary project supported by RAWCS.

03.01.2022 Life-saving work....

03.01.2022 The Royal Flying Doctor Service Tasmania will be providing a unique mobile Health hub in the form of 2 buses that will act as walk in clinics. This is a free service for Tasmanians living in rural and remote areas and will provide a range of health related services such as mental health, preventative health screening clinics, tele-health services, counselling, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation advice, nutritional education and health education, as well as collaborating with other independent providers. The bus will also provide an opportunity to access support in a safe and suitable youth friendly setting for youth aged between 8 and 16 years. In addition, the buses are provisioned to be used in case of extraordinary incidents such as bush fire or other emergencies and can be relocated. Donate here https://donations.rawcs.com.au/80-2019-20

03.01.2022 How In Kind Donations can change peoples lives.

01.01.2022 We can't travel there but Rotary clubs in D9640 are still doing good work in Timor Leste with many containers being delivered - education is the key for this country to rebuild and Rotary is proud to be part of that.

01.01.2022 Rebecca was hit by a bus in Goma DRC, on her way to her primary school exams. There was no ambulance to come for her, no emergency department to take her to, no Medicare to pay for treatment (fortunately the bus passengers forced the driver to pay to put her shattered jaw back together), no Child Support Agency makes her father support his six children, her mother recieves no welfare payments, no Pharmacutical benefits scheme will pay for her medicine, and she will have to pay again to repeat this year of education. This is why FAIM (Fourth Avenue in Motion) was founded to help people overseas, and why it matters that RAWCS remembers its roots. Thanks to all of you who are doing it still!

01.01.2022 Fabulous Federal Government Initiative supported by local Rotary Clubs and RAWCS.