Money raised
by the Rotary Club of Unley provides and supports humanitarian and community
services in Australia and overseas.
Some of the projects the Club has been involved in during 1997-99 are
listed under the following avenues of service:
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The
Rotary Club of Unley - committed to service
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Community
Service Activities 1997-1999
Activities:
- Painted the house of an elderly lady.
- Ran fund raising stalls at two community fairs, including
the Unley
Way to Go.
- Provided transport and refreshments for the Senior Citizens
Concert.
- Conducted a Creative Grandparenting training programme.
Contributions:
- $5,000 to the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund
- $2,000 to a joint project with Districts 9520 and 9500
to refurbish
the Newland Ward at the Women's and Children's Hospital.
- $1,500 to sponsor attendance at the Aboriginal School
of Excellence
in Technology and Science.
- $30,000 to provide a new bus to the War Veterans' Home
in Myrtle
Bank.
- Provided collectors for the Salvation Army's Red Shield
Appeal.
- Working bee at the home of a MS sufferer.
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Vocational
& Youth Service Activities 1997-1999
Activities:
- Organised and presented the 1998 South Australian Police
Officer of
the Year Award.
- Vocational visit to the South Australian Film Corporation.
including a
dinner typically served to film cast and crew "on
location".
Contributions:
- $200 to support the A Capella singers on their overseas
tour.
- $395 sponsorship for one young student, BHP Summer School.
- $380 sponsorship for two children, YMCA Summer Camp.
- $144 sponsorship for two children, TocH Summer Camp.
- $1,500 to support the Aboriginal summer School for Excellence
in
Technology and Science (ASSETS).
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International
Service Activities 1997-1999
Activities:
- Hosted and entertained a Group Study Exchange team from
the
Philippines.
- Donations In Kind (DIK) - Collected second hand schoolbooks
to be
sent to schools in English speaking countries in
Melanesia and
Polynesia.
- Sponsored a Group Study Exchange team member to Denmark.
- Sent two plumbers to West Timor to install water supplies
in hospital
operating theatres.
Contributions:
- $5,000 was committed to a joint project to build two double
classrooms in Eshowe in South Africa.
- $1.080 to sponsor three Cambodian students to pay their
university
fees.
- $150 given towards a volunteer student teacher's airfare
to Kenya.
- $10,627 for a joint project with Districts 3300 and 3310
to bring 24
doctors, nurses and volunteers from Malaysia to Adelaide
for a
Palliative and Aged Care training course.
- $5,200 to a joint project with the Rotary Club of Norwich
St
Edmunds, UK to build a workshop for a boys' home
in Madras, India.
- $1,000 to an orphanage in India.
- $5,300 to send a surgical team of four doctors/surgeons
and an
interpreter to Timor.
- $1,300 to produce a brochure to raise money for ASEA Rehab.
- $10,000 to upgrade two operating theatres in West Timor.
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