Rotary club celebrates success of Opera in the Arboretum

The Rotary Club of Woy Woy has hosted a community evening to celebrate the people who helped make the 2018 Opera in the Arboretum a success.

"We took this opportunity to thank all our major sponsors and inform people of where money raised from the event would be distributed," said organiser Mr John Greenway.

He said the three major beneficiaries were Rotarians against Malaria, Australian Rotary Health and the Zimbabwe Pensioner Support Fund.

"Rotarians against Malaria is a project that is determined to make the dream of a malaria vaccine a reality.

"The Australian Rotary Health Scholarship provides research programs into family health issues.

"The Zimbabwe Pensioner Support Fund transports food and medical supplies to pensioners in Zimbabwe from South Africa.

"With the Zimbabwe economy in a downfall from the Mugabe regime, pensioners' funds were obliterated and many were on the brink of starvation until this fund came to their rescue in 2004," Mr Greenway said.

"Since then every six to eight weeks, trucks are supplying 1400 pensioners with food and medicine," Mr Greenway said.

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Media release, 7 Jun 2018

John Greenway, Rotary Club of Woy Woy