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With some 300 million people being infected with malaria, including at least one million deaths from this tropical disease, the Rotary Against Malaria (RAM) program has particular significance to clubs in the South Pacific region. This program seeks to educate, as well as to provide essential equipment and training, not only for countries already affected by an increasing presence of malaria but for countries like New Zealand and Australia where vulnerability is very apparent.

Rotary Against Malaria is being supported by many districts in Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. There is a growing recognition of the problem coming from further a field with requests being directed to Rotary International to include malaria as an international eradication program, along the lines of the Polio Plus campaign.

Clubs are asked to support the campaign by raising funds to provide bed nets impregnated with insecticide for distribution to affected areas, to provide microscopes for the early detection of the malaria virus and to provide educational aids to assist local groups in the elimination of mosquito breeding grounds.

The long-term goals of the program are to raise awareness of the menace of malaria, to mobilise Rotary manpower to assist with field trials of vaccine and to have RAM accepted as an international program of Rotary International.

Contact: Keith Reinke (07) 5541 0580
Email: randmore@hotkey.net.au
Website: http://www.rotarymalaria.org/

As of June 30, 2008 the Stamp project will have been in existence for 28 years. During that time it is estimated that stamps with the aggregate value of approximately $400,000 will have been sent overseas. From small beginnings in 1960, the project now handles more than 10 tonnes of envelopes per year. Approximately 1 tonne of ‘trimmed’ stamps per year are sent overseas. The bulk of these go to Oxfam in England, with the balance being sent to Rotary clubs in Madras and Calcutta in India.

The recipients sell the stamps into the retail stamp collector’s trade and use the proceeds to assist various projects they are involved in. Trimming of the stamps provides valuable occupational therapy for many people in nursing homes etc, and we are fortunate to have a large band of voluntary people who support our project.

Waste paper (mainly envelopes) is re-cycled and the proceeds used to cover our small running costs with the balance being donated to worthwhile Rotary projects.

Districts 9450, 9470, 9750, 9640.

Contact Keith Reinke for more information (07) 5541 0580
Email: randmore@hotkey.net.au

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