Welcome to Meeting No. 170 of the Rotary eClub of Latitude 38 

President's message

Pete Showell attended the presentation of healthcare cards to needy people at an event in Ben Tre, Vietnam this week on behalf of the club. He received a certificate of appreciation for the club as well. He has been the driving force behind this project so congratulations Pete!

We have inducted three new members in the last two weeks so that is another piece of good news and there is at least one more on the way. There is also a growing participation by existing members which is particularly pleasing. This is evidenced by the excellent turn up for our general meeting on 21 January.

Thanks everyone.

Have a good week.

Brian Norris
President

 

This week's meeting material

Spotlight - Presentation in Ben Tre Vietnam for Health Insurance Cards for the needy

On Monday 21Jan19 Pete S, on behalf of Rotary eClub Latitude 38, attended the presentation of the Health Insurance Cards at the Local Authorities office in Ben Tre, Vietnam. Pete along with another donor from Ho Chi Minh City attended including Ms Chen and Mr Ranh from SAPP ( Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients ) in Ho Chi Minh City.  Mr Ranh is the SAPP Vice President in Ho Chi Minh City. The Vietnamese Local Authorities were very appreciative of our efforts and willingness to help the Vietnamese who cannot effort to purchase their own health cards.

Don't forget that you can still donate to this project which is ongoing. 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.

Please visit the Vietnamese Health Card project page for more photos from the presentation.

 

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.

 

This officially ends meeting No.170. 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

Webmaster

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