Welcome to Meeting No. 162 of the Rotary eClub of Latitude 38
President’s Message
We have now raised $1200 towards our goal $3000 to purchase 225 health care cards for needy Vietnamese. If you can help or encourage others to help please go to the lead story above. The donation link is in the last sentence of that article.
Thank you all for attending the general meeting of the club on 26 November 2018. It was a good event with a good speaker and the subject matter was very informative creating a lot of interest among those present. It’s great to see everyone continuing to master the technology; it’s the life blood of the club really. I encourage you all to login again for the next meeting which has yet to be scheduled when we hope to hear from Vivienne Armstrong about Australian Rotary Health. We may even be inducting a new member on the occasion.
Cheers
Brian
This week's meeting material
Latitude38 Club Project - Vietnam Health Cards for the Needy
Every year each person in Vietnam must purchase a health insurance card to obtain free medical treatment and medication. The cost of this card is VND 700,000 each (about $43 Australian dollars). For Vietnamese who are very poor, the Vietnamese Government will subsidise between 70-90% of the cost of a health card for them, meaning those people only need to pay about $13 Australian dollars instead.
This doesn’t sound much, but for poverty stricken families in remote and rural areas, the issue is how will they find the money to pay for a card for each family member. To afford the card what will families have to do without?
SAPP (Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients) is an organisation in southern Vietnam who (amongst other welfare programs) generously aims to provide 2000 health cards each year to poor people in five targeted provinces. This will enable families to not have to worry about how they will cope with illness or disease, and they can confidently send children to school, help the elderly contribute in the community and allow families to work towards improving their situation.
Rotary Club of Latitude38 is working with SAPP to fund some cards, but they need your help too. The more you donate, the more cards can be distributed and this helps more children be the best they can be. That’s something we should all be doing……
Visit our clubs Go Fund Me page to support our first project in Vietnam.
Latitude38 Club Project - Supplies for ODA in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Rotary e-Club Latitude 38 donated the funds for the rice, washing powder, washing up liquid for distribution to ODA. They were very happy and thank the club for their kind donation.
December is Disease Prevention and Treatment Month
This officially ends meeting No.162. Let me know on our Facebook group what you thought of the meeting material. Serious, leave a comment. It helps to get some feedback on the meeting and also to hear your thoughts and ideas. For club members go to the closed group here Closed Group Facebook page and for non members please leave a comment on our Public Facebook page, like, and share.
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