Newsletter for the Rotary Club of Western Endeavour - Issue No.: 913 Issue Date: 31 May, 2020

You are invited to view this one-off screening of Homeland Story in the comfort of your own home

via Zoom on Friday 12 June 2020

commencing 7.30 pm Western Standard time.

This Award Winning film is about the Donydji Aboriginal Community wo reside in Kakadu in the Northern Territory. These people’s lifestyle has remained largely unchanged for 200 years.

The film provides an understanding of Aboriginal people and their culture – especially how they think.

The cost to view is $10 per connected computer.  Funds raised as shared been the Donydji Community and Aboriginal Projects in Western Australia.

The Australian Film Classification Board has given it a rating of “M” – suitable for people over the age of 15 years.  It is recommended that parents accompany children under 15 years.

I have viewed this film twice and it is both moving and educational – highlighting many cross cultural issues. I commend it to you.

Bruce Dufty
Chair of Rotary District 9455’s Aboriginal Reference Group

Click here for instructions for registering to view the film and use of zoom.

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.