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Club Activities: 1997-1999

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:

 


The Rotary Club of Unley - committed to service

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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