RAWCS Southern Region

RAWCS Southern Region links Rotary Districts 9780, 9790, 9800, 9810, 9820 and 9830 spanning across the states of Victoria, Tasmania and Mt Gambier region South Australia.

RAWCS SR AGM zoom meeting 10-12am, 21-Nov 2021

RAWCS SR INFORMATION DAY 19-Feb 2022

RAWCS RAM zoom conference weekend 13-14 Nov 2021

COVID-19 Update – notice Oct 2021

RAWCS remains operational however in accordance with Government directives. The current environment may significantly impact RAWCS projects and the activities of Rotary Clubs for the foreseeable future.

Covid19 restriction may mean overseas volunteer teams are suspended. However applications relating to assisting and fund raising projects can be accepted within an approval process to suit various state and country parameters.

RAWCS Annual Report 2021

RAWCS Rover

RAWCS Rover is the quarterly magazine of news and events for RAWCS Southern Region. [PDF will download to computer for viewing ]

Rover SR 25 May 2021

RAWCS-SR-Rover-December-2020 Rover June 2020 to download June 2020

Rover Dec 2019 to download December 2019 Rover July 2019 to download July 2019

3 short videos

The three short videos (3-4 mins), are available for viewing via a cloud link or for downloading. The files are approx. 20 Mb. Please go to main RAWCS.org.au website menu for the link to these videos.

RAWCS introduction : RABS introduction : RAM introduction. https://rawcs.org.au/rotarians-against-malaria-2/

Southern Region Meeting schedule

AGM 20th Nov 2021, Q’tr meet zoom, 22th August 2021

Rotary District Governors 2021-22

DG 9780 John Clue John.Clue@rotary9780.org

DG 9790 Anne Reid anne_r_reid@hotmail.com

DG 9800 Dale Hoy Dale.Hoy@rotary9800.org

DG 9810 Daryl Moran djjamoran@gmail.com

DG 9820 Bill Degnan billdegnan@aussiebb.com.au

DG 9830 Heather Chong heatherchong.rotary@gmail.com

District Governor Elect 2021-22

9780 Cathy Rivett Kathy.rivett@rotary9780.org

9790 David Pearson dmcpherson2710@gmail.com

9800 Amanda Wendt Amanda.Wendt@rotary9800.org

9810 Ken Miller hoodsandhounds1990@gmail.com

9820 Paul Mee paul.mee@rotary9820.org.au

9830 Bob Calvert calvertbob@outlook.com

District Governor Nominee as of 2021-22

9780 Ian McKay rotary@mckay.net.au

9790 Neta Kirby dgn@rotary9790.org.au

9800 Ron Payne Ron.Payne@rotary9800.org

9810 Ian Ballantine ian@rotarybmc.org.au

9820 Linda Humphries governornominee@rotary9820.org.au

9830 Mike Patten dgn@rotary9830.org.au

RAWCS SR Co-ordinators/Supervisors 2021-22

COORDINATOR SR PDG Ken Moore 0418 144 034

Vice COORDINATOR SR PDG Mani Seneviratne 0409 123 292

SECRETARY SR PP Virginia Turner 0414 245 815

TREASURER SR TBA

SR COMMITTEE PP Gary Gunnell 0448 405 709

PROJECTS SUPERVISOR SR PP Vijay Susarla 0410 619 323

Deputy VOLUNTEERS SUPERVISOR SR PP David Ronksley 0414 572 744DROUGHT Program – Brad Quilliam d9790 bradquilliam@gmail.com

ROTARIANS AGAINST MALARIA SR PP Gloria Hargreaves 0419 140 090

WATER AND SANITATION SR PP Ruth Carlos Martinez 0448 366 292

REGIONAL COMMUNICATION SUPERVISOR SR PP Ian Esmore 0427 481 077

DISTRICT RAWCS CHAIRS 2021-22

9780 Noel Howard 0439 311 053 noelrosehoward@gmail.com district.chair9780@rawcs.org.au

9790 David Earl davide124@gmail.com

9800 Lili Teichman lili.t@optusnet.com.au

9810 Alan Lunghusen alan@lunghusen.com

9820 Harry Zeigler 0419 526 326 ziega@bigpond.com

9820 Tyrrell McGeever tyrrellmcg@gmail.com

9830 Leigh Dyson 0401 007 035 lasdyson@tpg.com.au district.chair9830@rawcs.org.au

RAWCS & RNZCWS -zone 8

RAWCS and RNZWCS have established a working group which meets regularly to further develop a cooperative approach to supporting Rotary humanitarian projects in the Zone 8 region. The organisations are committed to working collaboratively, sharing information and expertise to further the object of Rotary.
Procedures have been established to register projects for each World Community Service in the jurisdiction of the other agency to enable tax deductable donations to be received and applied. RNZWCS established an appeal project in New Zealand to fund Bushfire recovery in Australia and RAWCS has registered the Emergency Response Kits (ERKs) project to support disaster victims in the Pacific through RNZWCS.

Rotary Against Malaria

RAM_National_2019 Conference SR_RAM_Report_October_2019

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0 SASMES Flyer Safe Medical Equipment Guide

Good Practice Guide for Donation of Medical Equipment

Donations in Kind

Rotary Donations In Kind is a major recycle of Medical Equipment and Educational Supplies

You can be a partner in a great project by sponsoring items. Helping to fund a container is one of the easiest and most cost-effective International Projects for your Rotary club. You may choose to support the Total Shipment or the National Referral Hospital, the Dental Clinic or Wheelchairs for Kids or a specific item.

Learn more about Donations in Kind

RACG Rotary Australia Compassionate Grants. Pip and Dick SMITH donate again.

Two and a half years ago, Dick and Pip Smith donated $1million to the Rotary Australia Benevolent Society (RABS) and this funded a new approach for Rotary Clubs across Australia to become more involved in assisting those in their local communities who were doing it tough through no fault of their own.

Reeve Rogers has cerebral palsy. There is more story. .

The assistance was in the form of grants and Clubs needed to, as a minimum, match the amount of each grant. So Dick and Pip’s $1million dollars were more than doubled in delivering help.

104 projects were approved with grants of up to $15,000 coming from this fund.

One special rotary project worked with the Variety Club and Diabetes Australia to provide disadvantaged children with Insulin Pumps and other projects worked with the Farming Community to provide Drought Relief support.

Some of these projects have since developed into ongoing programs, but it was thanks to the initial grants that they got off the ground. The number of people benefiting from our Compassionate Grants is in the hundreds but when we consider those who gain help by knowing that someone else cares is probably in the thousands. Thank you Pip and Dick

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Example Projects from RAWCS Southern Region

Timor Rotary Consortium Project PDF

Construction and Installation – Baguia Sub-district, Timor Leste

32 Water Tanks and 4 Toilet buildings & WASH Training

2017 – 2020 Global Grant Number: GG 1868328 RAWCS registration: 54-2017-2018

Final report conclusion

The need for clean water and sanitation in this mountainous area of Timor Leste is very great and it is with pride and pleasure that we advise of the completion of this programme and the full expenditure of its AUD $139,150 Budget, which comprised donations of totalling $72,000 from the six Rotary Clubs in this Consortium, a 9800 District Grant of $10,000 a Global Grant from The Rotary Foundation of $48,681, donations through RAWCS of $2,733 and personal donations of $5,736 from private individuals.

Four (4) Team Visits were made to the region by Rotarians and other volunteers during the course of the project and copies of their four (4) individual reports are enclosed at the end of this Final Report.

It is very pleasing to note that construction of the last 3 Toilet Buildings was carried out completely by locals, using materials and local skilled/semi-skilled labour paid for by the Consortium. This work involved digging stone and concrete lined effluent Pits, laying concrete Toilet floors with inset squat toilets and building concrete block walls and Colorbond roofs.

The Water Tanks were installed on stone and concrete tank stands and fed with clean water from either nearby springs or from gutter and downpipe systems installed on nearby school roofs with the majority of this work at the end of the project being carried out entirely by locals.

“WASH” Training was originally provided by the Dili based Timor Foundation but they were not able to provide on-site training in the more remote hill villages and this work ended up being provided by a local doctor from the Baguia community Health Centre which worked well.

Vijay Susarla Project Manger E: susarla2008@gmail.com

Fresh-Food-for-Families Link to PDF template for community action.

Computer Training Centre in Timor Leste

The Gateway Rotaract Club equipped a Computer Training Centre for the people of Balibar, Timor Leste. Donations in Kind, were able to supply the educational equipment that Teachers and Students need. east_timor_classroom

Improving Education in Morobe Province

With assistance from Donations in Kind, local schools and organizations, Rotary Club of Essendon shipped 21,089 books to Morobe Schools in Papua New Guinea.

More about the Rotary 7 Avenues of Focus

Saving Mothers and Children

7 million children under the age of five die each year due to malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. To help reduce this rate, we improve access to essential medical services, and support trained health care providers for mothers and their children.

Fighting Disease

More than 100 million people are pushed into poverty each year because of medical costs. We aim to improve and expand access to low-cost and free health care in underdeveloped areas. We educate and mobilize communities to help prevent the spread of major diseases.

Supporting Education

Sixty-seven million children worldwide have no access to education and more than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy.