Theme: Youth Service Month
Lookout Reserve Maintenance Roster:
Alan Keyse, 20/5/2018 – 2/6/2018, James Ricchini, 3/6/2018 – 16/6/2018, Adrian Schmidt, 17/6/2018 – 30/6/2018
Report of meeting: 22ndMay 2018
Visiting Rotarian: Amanda Hough, Rotary Club of Torquay, Guest Speaker
Reports:
Secretary, Pearl Macmillan: Letter from Barwon Heads RSL thanking us for our help on ANZAC day. Pam, wife of Graham May from Probus has died and a letter of sympathy sent.
The Rotary trip to Japan was fantastic and presentations will be made at later meetings with details.
Social, Richard Grimmitt: Car Rally will be held on 17thJune starting at the Bowling Club at 3 pm and ending at a restaurant for dinner at 6 pm. Cost of the dinner will be $35. Please let Richard know if you are intending to participate. Flyer outlining the ‘Light of Day’ upcoming musical gigs to support Parkinson’s disease research distributed.
Foundation, Vic Harnath: $100 contributions for the Centurion project must be in by Friday. The eBowelScan selling period at the Pharmacies ends on the 9thJune.
Services, Ann Hodgkinson: A link to the form where members can state their preferences for committee participation and other duties was distributed by email last week. The form can be filled in online and hit ‘submit’ where answers will go to a spreadsheet, which will be used by incoming President, Graeme Chamberlain (aka Coog) to allocate positions for the next Rotary year, responses can also be made by emailing or telephoning Coog.
Welfare, Norm Elliott: Rod Bush is doing well and will be coming home this Wednesday.
Art Show, John Calnin: This year three new categories will be used: Flora and Fauna, Contemporary, and encouragement awards.
Footy tipping, Alex McGee: Rod Greer won this week, Geoff Ford still leading and Alex McGee still coming last.
Guest Speaker: Amanda Hough on Interplast.
Amanda has been a member of Torquay Rotary since 2004. She is a member of the Interplast District Committee. As such, she went to Borneo as a site observer of the nursing aspects of their operation. This was the site of one of the last battles in WW11, fought to gain control of the oil reserves. Local oil mining companies support their health program. Amanda is visiting district clubs promoting Interplast and the current fund-raising raffle.
Interplast Australia sends teams of volunteers to Pacific and S.E. Asia to provide surgery treatments and training. Interplast provides on-site surgery for simpler needs while Romac brings patients to Australia for more complicated surgery. Burns are a major issue with 95% occurring due to cooking over an open fire or kerosene stove causing pots to tip over. Victims arrive for treatment long after the incident occurs without receiving primary first aid, resulting in long-term complications. These people need surgery to relieve the ensuing disabilities. Cleft palates are also a common surgery to relieve the disfigurement.
In 1983-4, they ran 8 programs in 3 countries. Interplast now have 41 programs in 16 countries. All equipment and supplies are donated. All services are performed pro bono involving 140 volunteers valued at over $A2 million per annum. Theatres are held in ‘pop up’ caravans funded by the Japanese in acknowledgement for their mining rights. Interplast was originally established by Rotary but is now run by a consortium of organisations including AusAid, mining companies and medical organisations. Rotary sits on the Board.
Next week’s speaker will be on the Solmaid School in Bangladesh.
Thanks, Ann Hodgkinson
