MEAL BOOKINGS FOR PEEL MANOR HOUSE - GENTLE REMINDER!
Please make your meal requests and payment direct to Peel Manor House by Sunday evening, prior to the Monday meeting. This will enable Paul to cater for the correct number of guests! Your attention to this is greatly appreciated. The link can be found at:
The first meeting of 2021 gave us a great look at what is in store for the rest of this Rotary year. Gareth Bolton was welcomed as a new member of the Club, and Bob Cooper gave a presentation on the work of ROMAC (Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children).
It looks like the Rotary Club of Baldivis is fully rested and recharged and ready for any challenges in 2021!
ROMAC (Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children)
Mission Statement
ROMAC provides surgical treatment for children in Australia and New Zealand from developing countries from our Pacific Region in the form of Life Giving and/or dignity restoring surgery not accessible to them in their home country.
The work of ROMAC
ROMAC helps to provide specialist treatment for children from developing countries in the form of life saving and/or dignity restoring surgery not accessible to them in their home country.
ROMAC is assisted by many eminent Australian surgeons who generously respond to requests for assistance. This humanitarian program has provided over 380 children, from 20 countries, with urgent medical treatment that has given them new hope. The children usually come from very remote areas and are brought to Australia, as medical treatment is simply not available in their home countries.
Their conditions include herniated brains, deformed limbs, horrific burns and heart conditions and their home countries include Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, Tuvalu and Solomon Islands. ROMAC is an official, Rotary International multi-district program of, and created by, the Rotary Districts of Australia and New Zealand. ROMAC is now in its 25th year of operations.
Objectives
Provide hope and restore dignity to transform a child’s life
Provide the best possible surgical and medical expertise
Engage Rotary and the community at all levels to fund and support the ROMAC cause
To maintain and improve the quality of the management process and ensure high quality governance of the ROMAC program
Vincent
Vincent is a Solomon Islands patient who arrived in Australia as a two-month old requiring urgent surgery to correct a blockage between his oesophagus and his stomach. This meant he had to be fed via a catheter into the stomach.
Ten months later, after follow-up surgery, numerous hospital visits for day procedures, and constant monitoring by the doctors at the Centennial Hospital for Women and Children in Canberra, he is progressing. He is now able to take food orally and is putting on weight. Vincent celebrated his first birthday at a colourful party organised by Sandra Goldstraw and her District 9710 ROMAC team.
Jasminah is a 16-month-old girl from Vanuatu who failed to thrive from birth and had frequent respiratory tract infections. She was diagnosed with a ventricular septal defect (VSD) during a clinic held by Dr John Stirling in Vanuatu in early 2019.
Jasminah and her mother Angelina arrived in Ronald McDonald House in Auckland, New Zealand in July. After completing pre-tests and assessments, she had remedial surgery undertaken by cardiothoracic surgeon Dr John Artrip. She was initially very apprehensive of strangers but with Josie Adriaansen of Browns Bay Rotary supporting her and her mother Angelina she quickly relaxed for routine post-operative assessments. She is no longer breathless and has returned home fit and well, just over six weeks after her arrival.
For more of these stories please visit the website by clicking here.
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Landing in Perth's stunning Optus Stadium, Rotary in Western Australia's first Joint-District Conference in ten years is 2021's definitive to opportunity to get yourself back on track and kick some goals.
International Women's Day 2021 - Choose to Challenge
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.
International Women's Day (IWD) has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. Today, IWD belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. IWD is not country, group or organization specific.
The theme for IWD 2021 is 'Choose to Challenge';
A challenged world is an alert world.
And from challenge comes change.
So choose to challenge!
Baldivis Rotary will again be holding it's signature event in celebration of IWD. See following for details. When available, speakers details will be added - so watch this space!
Save the Date!
Sunday 18th April, 2021
Please share the poster far and wide on your social media and via email to anyone who may be interested in putting up a team, or sponsoring part of the event!
HANDICAMP
Handicamp: A week full of fun and challenges, and a lifetime of experiences.
Handicamp is a live-in camp for 18-35 year old people with a disability, who are teamed with a "buddy" for a week of fun and adventure. It is held in January each year and a dinner is held during the camp, which members and friends are invited to attend. Please see the flyer for more details.
Stories from our Rotary world
Planting seeds of motivation to support the environment By Dominik Huhndorf, vice president of the Rotaract Club of Nürtingen, Germany
My Rotaract club established a project, Treety of Generations, to motivate clubs around the world to plant trees in cleared areas. In doing so, we show the power of working with Rotary.
We began by finding two partner clubs on different continents who were as passionate about the environment as we were: The Rotaract Club Cumbayá, Ecuador, and Club MOP Vaishnav, India. With this strong alliance, we launched a pilot project. Then we assembled a larger team of volunteers, including members in each of the time zones, who possessed a solid base of knowledge and could promote the project on social media. We met virtually weekly and progressed well.
Our next task was convincing as many Rotaract clubs as possible from all over the world to join. We made weekly appeals using our tagline, “Think globally, plant locally.” We called upon members of Rotaract to help us advance Rotary’s newest cause, protecting the environment.
