Newsletter for the Rotary Club of Western Endeavour - Issue No.: 912 Issue Date: 24 May, 2020

Our club funds the installation of two wells in drought affected Cambodia

For the past three years, the Rotary Club of Western Endeavour has supported poor rural families in North West Cambodia improve their water, sanitation and hygiene conditions. This has been successfully achieved through the construction of water harvesting gutters plus the installation of water tanks and latrines. However, there was little rain during the 2019 wet season and water reserves dried up. Villagers had to walk long distances, kilometres in some cases, to find water and carry it back to their homes. The water is of poor quality and unhygienic at these sites. In 2020, RCWE provided funds to drill bores and fit hand pumping equipment for clean water supplies in two villages in Kamrieng District, Battambang Province. Sufficient clean water can now be hand pumped for the domestic needs of both villages.

These wells were installed through the Cambodia Family Support program, managed by Dr ENG Samnang. A full report prepared by Dr Samnang can be found under Articles on this webpage.

Support to assist further water, sanitation and hygiene projects in rural Cambodia can be made through the following link.  https://www.cambodiafamilysupport.org/

One of Rotary funded bores being drilled                                          Dried out water catchment area

Accessing poor quality water some distance from village.    Clean, potable water being hand pumped from shallow well

The scrub caps project is still going strong/  We have a great collaboration with Get Scrubbed, another group that is WA based.  Judy and I are a drop off, pick up point for Helping our Hospital Heroes and Get Scrubbed.  We are now providing fabric for making scrub sets to sew-ers in addition to the caps and wash bags.

So far we have contributed caps and bags  to Royal Perth Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia, Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital, Joondalup Health Service and are working toward 1,000 caps for Royal Womens Hospital in Melbourne.  The Eastern States has a huge demand compared to the West so we have couriered caps to where ever the need is greatest.   HoHHA has just donated caps to a Hospital in London.  A woman whos daughter works in a hospital there along with many other Australian asked for some.  We have provided the caps and Mum is organising the delivery.

The club has secured a Dick Smith Compassionate Grant for $4,000 through Rotary Australia World Community Service with the club matching this amount.  The Rotary Club of Karrinyup has generously donated $1,000 as has one of our club members.

If you'd like to make a tax deductible donation, please click the link 

The photo shows 1,000 caps about to be packed and sent. 

The generosity of our se-wers and their unflagging dedication to this project is wonderful.  The coming together of people from all walks of life is a great example of how Rotary Connects the World.

Thank you to everyone involved.