International Service @ the Rotary Club of Campbelltown

GSE: Group Study Exchange
Mark Henschke

23 March 04

Mark is our club's GSE team member going to District 7810, New Bruswisk Canada & Maine USA, in May- June 04. Here he is wearing his new balzer, donated by the club.


Mark with two other GSE team members from our club: Peter Rumbelow and Narelle Rawnsley.

President Bob gives Mark a donation towards his expenses, and sends him off with the Club's best wishes.

With John Schubert, past chair of the GSE District Committee

     

RAWCS: Donations in Kind: March 04

Club members load a container of goods donated by Norwood Morialta High School, of classroom furniture, and Mercedes College of second hand books.

Destination : Pacific Islands

     

31 May 2003

Polio Plus Dinner & Auction raises $16,000


The Auction and Dinner held at the John DiFede Centre.


52 Items were auctioned. The most impressive result being $600 for two cauliflowers

The evening was a fantastic success, achieving a profit of $16,000. This contribution to the PolioPlus Program is additional to the $4,000 previously contributed by our Club. During the evening 52 items were auctioned by either bidding or silent auction. A pair of cauliflowers raised $600 and a Port Power jersy for $1000.

See Jessica's Cartoon

President Tony and Carla with guest announcer Amanda Blair of SAFM's Breakfast Show.

MC: David Tunkin from Broken Hill RC

Left: Guest Speaker: Dr. Rod Givney, Director of the Communicable Disease Control Branch in the SA Human Services Department, explained the value of Rotary's PolioPlus Eradication Program and how Rotary's follow-up time and effort over the next few years are essential if polio is to be completely eradicated from the world

Right: Managers of the John diFede Centre, Julio & Gladys Alarez

The RAWCS team project in Kiunga, Papua New Guinea to erect two kit homes for teachers at Montfort Technical College. Intrepid volunteers (Bob Northcote, Mal Hansen, Geoff Thorpe, David Tuckwell and Kevin Parken) had to contend with heat, rain, mud, high humidity and more rain. But they got the job done! The school is expanding from yr 9-10 to take in yrs 11-12, both boys and girls. Kiunga in in the remote Western Province, about 800 km from Port Moresby and 25 km from the border with West Irian (Indonesia).

At right the team at the farewell dinner with Bishop Giles, Brother Raymond and staff of the school. Below various scenes of construction and former students who assisted our team and learned how to put up one of the homes themselves later on.

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