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ShelterBox Champion Bronze Award

Our Club has been awarded a ShelterBox Bronze Champion for 2018-2019. Out of over 1100 clubs in Australia we are among an elite group that are dedicated to ensuring families in disaster have shelter in their time of need.

ShelterBox is proud to be Rotary International’s Project Partner in disaster relief, further strengthening a global circle of friendship. This year ShelterBox has once again announced the winners of the ShelterBox Champion Awards. This is a national awards program to formally acknowledge the amazing support that Rotary provides in supporting families that are left without shelter.

Natural and other disasters are inevitable and frequent, and the need is continuous. More than 35,000 people were forced to flee their homes every day in 2018 - nearly one every two seconds - taking the world's displaced population to a record 88 million. With global Rotary support, ShelterBox provided shelter and life-saving items for 42,000 families robbed of their homes by disaster and conflict. That is 210,000 people helped on the road to rebuilding and recovery.

ShelterBox Champions are made up of an elite group of Rotary clubs that have identified the continuing need to prepare for and immediately respond to the worst day ever. ShelterBox Champions make a lasting impact in worldwide disaster response by supporting ShelterBox annually for three consecutive years.

Bohemian Rhapsody Fundraiser

Our Bohemian Rhapsody fundraiser help on the 8 November was a tremendous success. The star of the show was Thomas Crane, who brilliantly presented as Freddie Mercury, had the crowd up dancing and singing along. Tommy donated his time, for which we are most grateful.

Tommy had the crowd spell bound when he was joined on stage for "Barcelona" and another number by opera singer Fiona Mariah.

Shelterbox Award

The Rotary Club of Osborne Park has been recognised as a Shelterbox Australia Emerald Club Supporter for contributing over $10,000 to Shelterbox. The award was presented to President Peter Stuart at a recent meeting by David Brockway of the Mundaring Club, who is the district representative of Shelterbox.

Shelterbox provides emergency shelter and tools for families robbed of their homes by disaster. Right now, around 85 million people around the world have been made homeless by natural disaster and conflict. ShelterBox Australia is working to change this.

First Container to Women's Hospital

The first container of used hospital equipment our Club has sent to the Nokor Tep Women's Hospital has arrived and been unloaded. This is a brand new 220 bed hospital which has been constructed with the assistance of the Tabitha Foundation Cambodia, a not for profit organisation that has been operating in Cambodia since 1994, but have not previously been involved in the heath care sector.

This container, our 39th, contained mainly beds, mattresses, bedside cabinets and wheelchairs. Most of the hospitals constructed by donor organisations or countries are minimally furnished, so our contribution is greatly appreciated. The following letter of appreciation has been received from the hospital.

Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital Laundry Project

In May 2019, Michael and Jodie Flowers, owners of Commercial Laundry Solutions, travelled to Cambodia to install four reconditioned Electrolux commercial washing machines and a drier that they had donated, at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital. This hospital is the biggest and poorest public hospital in the country and sees over 1000 patients a day. Electrolux had provided $6,000 of parts to update and refurbish the washing machines alongside Challenge Chemicals who agreed to donate 1000 litres of detergent, which was shipped earlier in the year. The Flower's were accompanied and assisted by volunteer nurse educator, Kareen Dunlop, who filed this report.

Interplast goes to Myanmar

Posted by Stephen Dixon on Jul 03, 2019

An Interplast team of 7 volunteer medical professionals from Australia (3 plastic and reconstructive surgeons, two anaesthetists, one theatre nurse and one nurse educator) delivered a week long surgical mentoring and nurse education program within the Department of Plastic, Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery at the Yangon General Hospital in Myanmar in June 2019. The team were sponsored by Rotary district 9455, which covers Western Australia north of the river.

The team worked closely alongside the local surgical unit, delivering clinical, hands-on training for the local plastic surgeons, and Masters and Doctorate level plastic surgery trainees, as well as the consultant and trainee anaesthetists and theatre nurses. Nurse educator Sarah also delivered training to the local ward nurses, focused around post-operative care. During the week, 14 patients were seen for consultation and 11 received complex reconstructive surgery for a range of conditions, including major head and neck cancers, burns injuries and conditions requiring craniofacial reconstruction. On the final day of the program, the Interplast team delivered a full-day workshop for all local trainees, with sessions both relating to their clinical focus, as well as team-building activities and scenario training to build advanced life-support skills. Overall this was a very successful visit.

The work Inperplast does makes an immediate and huge difference to the lives of the people they operate on, who are usually stigmatised in their community because of their condition. In addition, the training given to the local surgeons allows their work to be multiplied and continued within the community.