ROTARY CLUBS OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA District 9600
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President:  Mike Saunders  saundersm@global.net.pg Tel: (675) 321-1277     Fax: 321-1349
Immediate  Past President: David Murray
Treasurer:  Geoff Down gdown@trukai.com.pg
Secretary: Peter Brown PHF brown@poma.adsteam.com.pg
Directors:  Community Services: Nick Raicevic nraicevic@daltron.com.pg
Club Services: Sanjay Shah  sipl@datec.com.pg
International:  Noel Warren noelwarren@hotmail.com
Vocational:   Andy Johnston ajohnston@steamships.com.pg
Youth Service:  Lionel Melville lmelville@iea.ac.pg
Sergent-at-arms:  David Conn PHF
Bulletin Editor:  Peter Brown PHF brown@poma.adsteam.com.pg

1. Club has three new Paul Harris Fellows. Past President Ian Morris, and President Elect Lionel Melville were bestowed as the latest Club PHF's. Also awarded at the Changeover Dinner was a PHF and Blue Sapphire to Past President and Past Deputy District Governor, David Conn, MBE. Since the Club's inception in 1967 a total of USD73,000 has been donated to the Rotary International Foundation. A further donation of USD1000.00 will be sent to the Foundation soon as unrestricted giving.

2. Boroko Rotary will celebrate its 35th Year of Service to the Community in this Rotary Year. Celebrations are planned and will be advised in due course.

3. MATCHING GRANTS VALUED AT MORE THAN K150,000.00 IN 2001
Boroko Rotary will participate in another three Matching Grants this Rotary Year. Two are current : one to assist with Donation in Kind containers to be shipped from Brisbane to all clubs in PNG. Last year the DIK programme shipped over AUD2.3m of medical and educational equipment to PNG > The other will provide some basic textbooks to aidposts and clinics near all centres where there is a Rotary Club in PNG. The books will be "Where there is no doctor" and "Where there is no midwife". Both grants are the initiative of PDG Bill Waterfield of the RC of Kenmore in Brisbane. RC Boroko will also coordinate a grant of USD30,000(over K100,000) with Districts 9640 in Queensland and 2720 in Osaka to provide much-needed equipment for a new Limb Factory at the Port Moresby General Hospital.

4. WHEELCHAIRS FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
The RC of Scarborough in W.A. have shipped 50 wheelchairs thru Donations in Kind in Brisbane to the Rotary Club of Boroko. Valued at over K25,000 the chairs are specially designed for harsh PNG conditions and will be given free of charge to needy recipients in the comunity.Already some have gone as far as Hula and Kuriva in the Central Province while others have gone to Cheshire Home, POMGH and Urban Clinics in Port Moresby. Friends of the Disabled Association (FODA) gave K1000.00 to DIK to asist with their freighting to Port oresby. Enquiries on these can be referred to PDDG Dave Conn at Spring Holdings, 6 Mile...daveconn1@global.net.pg or the FODA President Pat Milan...milanta@datec.com.pg

5. TEXTBOOKS FOR SCHOOLS
A shipment of brand new science textbooks worth over K60,000 was distributed at the recent Headmasters Conference in Port Moresby. All secondary schools and National HS's received approx 100 titles each. The books were sent to POM in the last container from the DIK warehouse at Wolston Park in Brisbane. For enquiries on DIK contact PDDG Dave Con or PDG Bill Waterfield in Brisbane...billannw@logicworld.com.au.

6. DONATION TO CITY MISSION
President Michael presented 100 treated mosquito nets worth K1000.00 to Chairman of City Mission, Larry George on 7th August. The nets will be used at the Mission' farm facility at Bootless Bay just outside Port Moresby.

7. RAWCS PROJECT GIVING
The Club has gratefully received two donations through the RAWCS Project Book. The first, a donation of K2730.00 from the Rotaract Club at Red Cliffs Secondary School in Victoria to assist with school fees for disadvantaged students and another of $5000.00 from the RC of Essendon towards Lady Caro Kidu's Ginigoada Micro Finance Scheme being launched in urban villages and settlements around Moresby. Both donations have been gratefully received and acknowledged by the Club and the students at Tapini, Gordon Secondary and KilaKila Secondary. The Club has given a further K1000.00 from club funds to assist students at Hohola Youth Centre.

8. WATER PROJECT TO GET OFF GROUND
RC Boroko has been negotiating for some time now with Save Water Save Lives in Victoria to spend a grant of AUD42,000 from the RSL in Australia in order to provide regular water supplies to two villages on the remote Djaul Island in New Ireland. The Club has finally decided to negotiate with local company Lohberger Engineering to quote on the work and hopefully have the project completed by the end of the year.

9. ELA BEACH ROTARY PARK
We all wait with trepidation to see if the new road works reach onto Ela Beach and our Rotary Park. The Park has become a bit of a landmark and the Boroko Club recently allocated K10,000 to renovate the play equipment which is the target of regular abuse and vandalism. The Board has agreed in principle only at this stage to discuss possible assistance to complete the Memorial park at 5 Mile which is the home for the famous Raphael Oembari statue. Given the Clubs involvement in the Kokoda Living Memorial project and the ongoing Kokoda Trail Development Project this would be a fitting contribution by the Club to the community in its 35th year. More on this as it develops.
 

Books worth a million... The Pacific  Adventist University outside Port Moresby  received nearly 10,000 volumes of  university text books valued at Kl million,  from the United States of America this  week. The books came in a 20-foot  container and were delivered to the  University early this week. Picture shows  University staff and students and members  of the Boroko Rotary Club displaying some  of the books. Nationalpic by BONNEY  BONSELLA  2nd year education student Philip Mariyah  browse through one of the books. Nationalpic By BONNEY BONSELLA.

Pacific Adventist University receives  K1m worth of books (The National 3 May 2001)   THE PACIFIC Adventist University (PAU)  outside Port Moresby received about 10,000  volumes of university text books valued at Kl  million from the United States of America  (USA) this week.  The books came in a 20-foot container in 544  cartons, containing an average of 17 books a  carton and were delivered to the university  early this week. The supply and shipment of  the books had been made possible by  Brother's Brother, a private organisation and  the Bladensburg Rotary Club in the USA.   Boroko Rotary Club President   David Murray and Past Deputy District Governor, David Conn were at the PAU yesterday to hand over the books to the staff and students.  Mr Conn and Mr Murray and the Boroko Rotary had assisted in the shipment and clearing of the books from the wharf at a cost of US$9,000 made possible through the Rotary International Transportation Grant, a first of its kind to be made by Rotary International.  Mr Conn said the Bladensburg Rotary Club in the USA had assisted in gathering the books and made through Rotary International Transportation grant.  Mr Conn said they were happy that PNG has become the first recipient of the grant.  Staff and students at the PAU expressed delight at receiving the books.  Student leader, Jethro Rabie said the books will now enable the students to do their work more easily.  He said there were not enough books in the past and students have to queue up for books.  Vice chancellor, Dr Harold Peters said the books represents an important boost to the students. They will enable thousands of students to have access to a wide variety of up-to-date materials and research that would otherwise be beyond the reach of institutions such as the PAU, he said .  Dr Peters thanked the Boroko Rotary Club and Rotary International for their kind gesture.  He also extended the university's appreciation to the Adventist Development and Relief agency (ADRA) both at the International level and ADRA, PNG. He said ADRA had provided contacts and funds for the shipment.