Sally & Peter Dell make 3rd trip with trailer full of donations to Alice Springs
Monday 19 August 2024, EndTrachoma District Champion Sally Dell (9800 & 9815) and husband Peter departed Woodend on their third trip to Alice Springs with a trailer loaded with donations for communities in the NT.
Planning for this trip started in May. This included Sally washing and ironing all the clothes, colour coding the boxes for the relevant intended donations, renting storage space and trips to various locations collecting donations.
The trip took them from Woodend and staying overnight in Renmark, Pimba, Erldunda before arriving in Alice Springs on Thursday 29th August.
On the way, they stopped in Port Augusta and met up with District 9510 Champion Kerre Willsher who handed over 22 Toiletry Kits made by the Girl Guides in Whyalla. They met at the Arid Zone Botanical Gardens and had lunch. Kerre drove 50 minutes from Whyalla to enable the meet up.
Donations were received from: Rotary Woodend, Rotary Bayside Geelong, Buffalo Sports, Xavier College Kew, Olivia's Place Warragul, Fairview, FootScape, DIK, Rotary Gisborne, Whyalla Girl Guides, Woodend Knitting Group, Woodend Primary School, Rotary Warragul, Uniting Church Op Shop in Woodend,
And they were strategically distributed to....... Julie Wright for distribution to selected communities in need, WOSSCA. WALTJA, Vinnies, Ampilatwatja Community, Alpurrurulum, CAWLS, Alice Springs Hospital - Maternity Ward and Pediatrics Ward, Purple House in Cooper Pedy, and the Bonya Community.
There is s much more to be shared of this story so stay tuned.
EndTrachoma installs Community Laundry in Ampilatwatja
In August 2024, PDG Ian Dyball travelled to Ampilatwatja in the NT for the final set up of the Community Laundry donated by EndTrachoma.
This project was an extension from the Family-size Toiletry Kits that were supplied by Rotary Frankston North, Rotary Moruya and Rotary Rochester that commenced back in December 2022. Rachael Byles, Family Educator as she was back then for the Families as First Teachers Centre Ampilatwatja, blew me away with the genuine appreciation for the kits, and the lengths she personally went to, to hand out the kits to each individual family, educating each member of the family. It was back in November 2023 that Sandi first discussed with Rachael the support with the provision of laundry facilities. And we are still to make laundry bags for each family in the community. A project that is in its
From November 2023, PDG Ian Dyball and Rotary Taree got involved with the Ampilatwatja Community. Ian has been instrumental in the logistics of the sourcing, supply, delivery and installation. And it was wonderful that Ian made the trip, personally funded, to be in Ampilatwatja for the set up, and to meet with Rachael and the community. He also visited Alpurrurulum providing Baby Kits under interesting circumstances. A story for another article.
Thank you to the following donors who made the Ampilatwatja Community Laundry possible:
Rotary Glen Waverley - The Used Stamps Project - $8,434
Rotary Koo Wee Rup-Lang Lang $1,000
Chris Morris (Warragul) $500
Rotary Murray Bridge $1,000
Rotary Traralgon $1,000
Rotary Tamworth $2,000
Rotary Nunawading $1,000
Thank you to all who have partnered with us to provide over 10,000 Toiletry Kits in the NT and WA!
Rotary Clubs of:
Adelaide Light
Alfredton
Alice Springs-Mbantua
Alstonville
Aurora Gungahlin
Bacchus Marsh
Ballarat East
Ballina-on-Richmond
Bayside Geelong
Beaufort
Bega
Belmont
Berwick
Blayney
Brighton North
Calliope
Camperdown
Canberra Burley Griffin
Cobden
Colac West
Dorrigo
Drysdale
E-Club Brindabella
E-Club Outback Australia
Eltham
Fairy Meadows
Frankston North
Geelong Central
Gladstone Midday
Gladstone Port Curtis
Gladstone Sunrise
Hamilton North
Holdfast Bay
Junee
Kew
Latitude 38
Lilydale
Logan
Merimbula
Milton-Ulladulla
Mordialloc
Moruya
Nelson Bay
Ocean Grove
Orange Daybreak
Padstow
Pambula
Parkes
Pascoe Vale
Port Macquarie West
Portland Bay
Regency Park
Rochester
Rowville-Lysterfield
Salamander Bay
Satellite Club of Ballina Lifestyle
Strathmore
Taree
Temora
Terang
Torquay
Tumut
Wagga Wagga Sunrise
Warragul
Waverley
Wyndham
Rotaract Clubs of:
Central Coast
Illawarra
Salisbury City
And our other partners:
Beaufort and Skipton Health Service 9780
C.A.V.E. - Community & Volunteers of Eltham 9790
ECC Interact Club 9560
Girl Guides 9510
Orbost Primary School 9820
Womens Friendship Group 9810
STAMPout
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Thank you to everyone who has been collecting used stamps and continue to do so. Over $61,000 has been raised so far and is helping to rid Australia of trachoma.
Rotarian Camille Rogers is kindly continuing the great work of Carrol Farmer in Philatelic Garbology with the funds going to EndTrachoma.
Please collect and send your used stamps to Camille who will sell them and raise even more funds for EndTrachoma.
