With projects running throughout much of the developing world, there are a multitude of opportunities for volunteers to get involved in overseas RAWCS projects.
RAWCS Project No 59/2011-12
Lao Water Project - Ban Xai
The first stage of a project designed to secure a safe and healthy living and working environment to a mixture of ethnic minority Lao people. A water source was identified and used to irrigate the farm and to other water points including the school.
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RAWCS Project No. 5/2011-12
Orkeeswa Secondary School Tanzania
Orkeeswa Secondary School is located
in rural, north western Tanzania, and is
part of the Indigenous Education
Foundation of Tanzania .The Rotary Club of Geraldton, WA, is
raising funds to provide improved
facilities at the school, a computer room,
science building, a library and a sports pitch.
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RAWCS Project No. 18/2009-10
Save the Kula Babies, Trobrian Is, PNG
To upgrade Losuia Health Centre, Kiriwina Island, including the staffing of the hospital. To provide Family Planning and general health care support to other communities in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
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RAWCS Project 38 / 2011-12
Children's House of Hope Samoa
The Rotary Clubs of Surfers Sunrise, Goondawindi & Apia made an extensive study to locate a
partner to assist with the ongoing nurturing, mentoring and health care for orphaned children in tsunami affected Samoa.
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RAWCS Project 16/2011-12
$20 Meal Club
The Rotary Club of Tamar Sunrise (D9830) and the Rotary Club of Kalayaan
in Cagayan de Oro City in the Philippines have combined to adopt a depressed
school in the Barangay District of Cagayan de Oro City. One day a week, for the whole school year, many malnourished children at the Malasag Elementary School
are provided with a healthy meal.
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RAWCS Project 15/ 2008-9
Nepal Bright Future Community Centre
Located on the outskirts of Katmandu, the centre began in 2003 as a library and teaching centre. It opened a Medical Centre in 2009 which screens for diabetes. Supported by the Rotary Club of Kew Vic.
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RAWCS Project No 23/2006-2007 Rotahomes Fiji
The project aims to alleviate subhuman living conditions for impoverished families. Volunteers working with community residents have built 705 homes in country areas and 111 homes at Koroipita community, Lautoka. Around 3600 people have been housed.
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RAWCS Project No 55/2008-2009
Dental Project, Laos
Untreated dental decay is a major problem in Lao particularly in children. Since 2008, PDG Dr Ed Montgomery and his supporting Rotary Club of Glen Innes, NSW have installed four dental surgeries in local hospitals in Provincial towns.
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Project No 2/2009-2010
Leeton -Luro Water Filtration.
Community of Leeton and surrounding areas in NSW established a‘friendship relationships’ between their local communities in Timor-Leste and Australia. The current project is a Clean Water Filtration program designed to combat dysentery and water borne diseases.
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Project 33/ 2011 -2012
Kenya Health
Kenya Health is an organisation set up by Lyle Burgoyne – a registered nurse & midwife wo, whilst on holiday in Nakuru District Kenya saw a need for medical assistance for the country’s poor.
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Project 66/2010-11
A Model Project in Cambodia
Each year the Rotary Club of Balmoral (D9630) remits funds to take a team of medical practitioners to the poor outer regions in Cambodia. This year in outer Kratie Province the team conducted 49 surgeries including 16 cleft pallet and lip, 28 plastic & reconstructive surgeries, 5 Paediatric surgeries and more...
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Project Project 31/2011-12
Computer Room Fomu New Guinea
For a number of years the Rotary Club of Kenthurst in NSW implemented an ongoing RAWCS project in Education, Health and Community Empowerment. The Rotary Club of North Ryde plan to create a computer room at the school having newly designed low powered solar driven computers which have been designed and developed by the Castle Hill TAFE, and Mt Druitt TAFE.
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Project 61/2010-11 Laos
Help us to Help 'A HELPING HAND'
Global Hand Charity is a Not For
Profit organisation partnering the Rotary Club of Mill Point
(District 9465) W.A. raising
funds to assist children and other
disadvantaged people in Laos.
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Project 7/2010-2011
Papua New Guinea
Teachers Assist Kokoda
Rotary Club of Cessnock provides educational aid and professional development to teachers and communities of the Kokoda Track and Kokoda Highway regions of Oro Province.
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Project 110/2010-2011,
Indonesia
Individual family toilet/bathroom construction
Initiated by Rotary Club of Crawley (Western Region) it has partnered with the East Bali Poverty Project to begin building 100 toilet blocks in a isolated mountainous village complex named Manikali Pucak, Indonesia. More...
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Project 11 2011-12
Xa Dan School for children with impaired hearing Hanoi, Vietnam
Rotary Club of Mosman partnered with the Audiology and Speech Department Vietnam National ENT Institute, for an early intervention program for younger children at the Vietnam National ENT Institute- to provide hearing aids and supplies to the school. More... |
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Project 145/2010-2011
Hetauda Support Project, Hetauda, Nepal
A team of volunteers from Tasmania District 9830 to Nepal were shocked to see the only means of 1500 school children obtaining a drink of water was from a hose in a muddy yard. A photo back home and the Rotary Club of Devonport reponded by organising the installation of a fountain which would ensure continuous and clean drinking water. More..
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Project 46/2011-2012
Alliance for Smiles, Yaounda, Cameroon
Lyn Thorpe from District 9670 again joined the Alliance for Smiles on another of their medical missions to developing countries and areas of need. Her latest mission (Project No, ) was to Yaounde, the
capital of Cameroon, Africa with an International team of 17 medical and
support volunteers from USA, Germany, Canada and Australia . Fifly cleft lip and palate deformities were treated. More..
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Project 27
East Timor School Renovations
Rotary worked in partnership with the locals, building, renovating and equipping schools in association with local Succos (councils) and providing for the needs of deserted small children in the orphanages run by the caring Timorese Carmelite Sisters.
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Project 10 2009-2010
Water in Tanzania
A wonderfully resourceful project undertaken by a two man team including Roger Dennis (R/C Salisbury D9500) which will give much needed fresh drinking water to a remote Tamzanian community of 800 people. Roger employed the local community people which taught them the skills to duplicate the water wells elsewhere. The hand pumps were inexpensively made from pipes and tyre walls.
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Project 81 2010-2011
Gizo Islands Solomons
Two weeks as a Rotary volunteer amongst beautiful islanders has changed me. Gizo is
one of the 992 Solomon Islands. Our team travelled by heavily laden open boats over water that was sometimes rough.
On this trip we installed solar panels at schools to provide electricity for power points and overhead lights. We also
provided a TV, a DVD and a CD player plus two PCs to the schools.
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Project 13 2011-2012
Margaret River(WA) School Leavers to
East Timor
This project offered an alternative to Schoolie's Week. A team of nine students built water wells, formed a vegetable garden, delivered chairs and desks.
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Project 14 2011-2012
Kalumunda
School
Leavers to East Timor
The Rotary Club of Kalumunda (WA) funds and supports year 12 school leavers engaged in a project to improve clean water for a community of 1800. Since 2008 66 students have been involved in a 2 weeks excursion and camp.
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Project 101 2010 -2011
Samoa Story
In 2009 Four nine metre
waves created by a Pacific €quake left death and destruction to much of beautiful Matafaa, on
Upolu, Samoa.
A new pre-school building was constructed in
Australia and then partially
dismantled to pack into a 12 metre
shipping container along with
tools, desks, books, toilet and
shower fittings, wheel chairs, and play gym, to give a much needed resource to villagers.
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Project No 7/2007-8
Aussie Bangla Smile Project, Bangladesh
The 2013 Medical Field Trip by the Rotary Club of Nepean (District 9690) to Bangladesh as part of their Aussie Bangla Smile project has given smiles that will last a lifetime and changed their lives forever.
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