Welcome to Meeting No. 168 of the Rotary eClub of Latitude 38 

President's Message

Hello everyone. We are looking forward to inducting Mark S. as a new member on Monday 14 January. I hope there will be a good roll-up of members to welcome him online.

The induction will be followed by a board meeting which members will be welcome to participate in.

We are also now looking forward to appointing office-bearers for 2019-20 and I am really hoping that we will all be willing to put our hands up to be involved even in a small way.

I look forward to seeing you online next Monday.

Yours in Rotary,

Brian Norris

 

This week's meeting material

A reminder of our current Vietnam project to purchase Health Insurance Cards for the needy in rural Vietnam ( read more about it below ). Please visit our GoFundMe page to support this very worthwhile project. Share via Facebook to help spread the word and make our first Vietnam project a great success. Vivienne Armstrong has also put an article about our project up on the Australian Rotary Health District 9820 page so please visit, like and share. Browse through the Facebook page and you will find some interesting health articles and some great photos. 

 

Spotlight - Community Support Frankston

Community Support Frankston Inc. is a not for profit community support agency which provides services including emergency food, grocery vouchers, help with utility bills, referrals and advocacy for people who live, or work in the City of Frankston. CSF is one of the busiest agencies of its type in Victoria - with nearly 13,000 people contacting the organisation for assistance last year.  The agency aims to provide people with information, advice and skills so they gain the ability to make more effective life choices within their community. Services are cost-effective because we have approximately 80 volunteer community workers from a wide range of social, political, religious, cultural and work backgrounds who provide their time and services free of charge.  Visit the Facebook page of the Community Support Group Frankston

Check out the Photo Gallery to see the great work that Community Support Frankston does. 

 

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.

 

 

This officially ends meeting No.168. 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.

 

If you have an interesting topic, or project to share please contact Pete at pete@showell.com.au

Thank you for joining us, we appreciate your feedback, hope you will return soon and invite a guest.

Pete Showell

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