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How can I, and How can my Club....

Join an approved Overseas Project ?

Give Clean & Continuous Water supplies?

Protect islanders from, and minimise

the death rates due to Malaria.

Join a Literacy Program?

Teach islanders my vocational skills?

Help them to be self sufficient?

Build a Library, a Shack, Home, or a Warehouse?

Send money to support a project ?

Make a Tax Deductible Gift? Volunteer my services

Give medical assistance or supplies?

Join a working party and receive a tax deduction?

The answers are here... www.rawcs.org.au

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Our mantra can sound like educate, educate, and educate becauseeducation holds the key to much of developing countries problems. We sendteams to build or restore libraries, and then stock the shelves and furnishcomputer laboratories. Then we send technicians to make sure they work. Wesend teams to train the educators. We send teams to help early learners. Youcan join them or form your own.

We send medical teams to attend the impoverished and those atrisk: Medical teams need equipment and medical supplies. They need transport,shelter, clean water, consulting rooms, theatres, and out patient care. Ourmedical teams are volunteers. So are the nursing staff. We also send teams toteach proper early childhood care and support. You don’t necessarily need to bea medical practitioner to find a berth in these teams. Project leaders will advisehow you can provide support.

Many locations need water purification, or water catchment anddiversion, water storage, wells, and ongoing pumps.Our volunteers often work under arduous humid and rugged conditions. Suchis their dedication that many thousands of communities now exist knowingthey have regular, reliable, and clean water. Improved quality of life isdependent of such basic needs. We ensure these facilities are sustainable.

We encourage self sufficiency:Building piggeries and teaching farm management and animal husbandrytechniques is important for subsistence communities. It also provides theopportunity to continue cultural practices and earn a living through growthand export opportunities.

We help rebuild where natural disasters such as tsunamis,cyclones, floods have disrupted life.Sometimes this means moving important village infrastructure to higher orsafer territory . If you can wield a hammer, a paint brush, a welding iron orbucket, we have a place for you on such a team.

Our volunteer project teams carry out humanitarian work around theglobe. The teams conduct short term exercises, have predeterminedand agreed goals, and ensure that projects be sustainable.

We are combating poverty, neglect, hunger, water shortages andcontamination, poor housing, inadequate medical attention andsupplies, disease, discrimination, ignorance and poor reading and comprehension skills.

The teams and the communities need ongoing support. We give that too. Here are some approaches which illustrate our philosophyand action.

Opportunities for youth volunteers

This computer laboratory was rebuilton higher ground after a cyclonedestroyed earlier equioment

Give needy families a hand up

Homeless children are giveneducation, home and hope

New lives, new purpose, new friends

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We are not small, but the needs are greater than we can satisfy. We need to improve our performance and this should provide youwith an opportunity to help. Last year Rotary Australia WorldCommunity Service shipped over 200 containers to needy communities in 30different countries. The value of those items is inestimable. They typically containeddentists chairs, desks, books, clothing, medical supplies, wheel chairs, birthingequipment, computers, which had been collected by clubs around Australia andwarehoused at our five large Donations in Kind facilities where they are matchedwith needs determined and vetted by our system. The cost of shipping thesecontainers was well over AUS$500,000. This means we need your funds too, tosend more of these wanted items to their destinations.

Countries where we gave humanitarian aid include Bangladesh, Cambodia,Cook Islands, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar,Malaysia, Mayanmar, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Samoa,Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet,Timor Leste, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Timor, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

We offer tax deductibility to those who work or donate to ourregistered projects

• It is important that the work we do is managed, supported, supervised andrecorded according to the guidelines set by our corporate directors and theAustralian Tax office. Last year we recorded more than 750 volunteers whose work value was A$4.7 million. We welcome Corporate partners and Corporate donations.

Many of the RAWCS programs have:• brought clean water to villages• protected thousands against malaria• provided shelter for those left homeless after tragedies• transported medical equipment to remote regions• provided micro-finance to poverty-struck communities• established care homes for the elderly• brought literacy programs to villages• provided AIDS education programs• established vocational education training programs• constructed staff accommodation to bring volunteers and professionals

into remote regions needing assistance• helped provide critical post-natal care for mothers and babies• saved unwanted children who are ‘sold’ by parents• assist street children into orphanages where they can have care, shelter

and an education• established medical, dental and general health facilities across second and

third world countries

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

- Margaret Mead (1901-1978)

Arm broken two years ago

After our surgery

Bed nets are shipped by air and sea

Villagers help carry anti malaria nets

Nets are carried over rivers, mountains

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Rotary Australia World Community Service LtdContact Details for Information -

Chairman PDG Lou Johnson chairman@rawcs.com.auSecretary PDG Michael Perkins secretary@rawcs.com.au Treasurer PP Mike Whitehouse treasurer@rawcs.com.au

Chairman Northern Region PDG John McLaren chair.northern@rawcs.com.auChairman Eastern Region PDG Harry Durey chair.eastern@rawcs.com.au

Chairman Southern Region PDG Mani Seneviratne chair.southern@rawcs.com.auChairman Central Region PDG Roberta Waterman chair.central@rawcs.com.au

Chairman Western Region PDG Ron Geary chair.western@rawcs.com.au

Australia Overseas Aid Fund (managed by RAWCS) has Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) registration and has been listed as a Charitable Fund so we can accept tax deductible donations from individuals, business corporations, and not for profit organisations to support projects outside Australia.

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Club or Organisation ...............................................................................................................

Postal Address.............................................................................................P/Code.................

Email Address..........................................................................................................................

Donation Amount $..................00 Project No. (optional) ..................

Cheques made to Rotary Australia Overseas Aid Fund,

Post to RAWCS P.O. Box 3168, Parramatta NSW 2124

Direct Payment to BSB 083 551 Account No 65417 3269 ( National Australia Bank )

Post Tax Deductible receipt to: (Name)..................................................................................

Address ( if different from above) .....................................................................................................

Donate to our Overseas Aid Fund

Head Office:ROTARY AUSTRALIA WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE LTD

Level 3, 43 Hunter Street, Parramatta NSW 2124Postal: PO Box 3168, Parramatta NSW 2124

Tel: +61 02 8833 8317 E: info@rawcs.com.au

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