Southern Region

RAWCS Southern Region covers Rotary Districts 9780, 9790, 9800, 9810, 9820 and 9830 spanning across the states of Victoria and Tasmania.

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Donations in Kind (DIK)

1. The region is fortunate to have several  DIK storage facilities; the old fire station at Essendon Airport, Council Depot at Corio (Geelong), an old wool store at West Footscray,  and Tasmania uses storage containers in the north and the south of the island.
   

Recipient countries include Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Zambia.

Amongst recent donations from business partnerships were two heart machines for Sri Lanka. The cardiac catheterisation labs, donated from two Victorian Hospitals, are the first used in that country's public hospitals.

Southern Region Annual Report 2009 2010 pdf download

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Rotary Volunteers                  

Southern Region is very active in this field and there is a constant movement of teams to various countries in our zone.

One project supported by a number of Districts in this region is the Fiji Rotahomes Village. Stage 2 involving the construction of 160 basic houses with toilet, shower & kitchen and a large community hall.

Another is Project 12- 2008-9 in Gouno New Guinea. A team of volunteers returned on 4th of August  2010 from a successful trip to the remote village of Gouno located at an altitude of approx 2,600 m. situated 86 kilometres south of Goroka in the Eastern Highlands of PNG.

The aim was to do  electrical, carpentry and plumbing work on the new health centre as well as deliver 3 shipping containers of medical, classroom furniture and books to our project school as well as 5 surrounding community schools..

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Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM)

This program enjoys strong support in the region, especially, the Adopt a Village program and more clubs are becoming involved through the various RAM representatives promoting the program to the clubs both at Club and District level.

Click here to read the latest News inc World Malaria Day, April 30 2012

Click here for information about the Annual RAM Conference,

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Safe Water Save Lives (SWSL)

SWSL virtually falls under the umbrella of Rotary Volunteers, however, for a number of years a number of Rotarians and Clubs have specialized in this area with steel tanks and the construction of concrete tanks on site. The Region has identified this as a special needs program and is very strong in this area. An example is the Water Supply organisation at Soibada, Manatuto District, EastTimor.
'To organise existing, no-operational water pipes to supply schools and villages. Plumbing and general handy skills required'.
Contact  Rtn Peter McGrath   email: mcgrath@gotalk.net.au
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