Rotary members travel to New Guinea

Members of the Rotary Club of Umina Beach have travelled to Papua New Guinea to arrange the installation of solar panels and water tanks at the Vakuta Island School.

The members also took inflated soccer balls and 100 pairs of football boots for the island's residents.

The boots were collected at matches between the Central Coast Mariners and the Newcastle Jets and Newcastle University students have cleaned and polished the boots.

The Rotary club's health team members also took special health equipment, developed by a Newcastle organisation for school girls who leave school at 13 because of their embarrassment about menstruation.

The equipment, with full directions, gives the girls privacy so they have the confidence to continue attending school during their periods.

It is designed for washing and reuse and will be an additional benefit of the Rotary visit to Papua New Guinea.

Newsletter, 1 Aug 2016

Rod Radford, Rotary Club Umina