After last year’s successful showcasing of sustainable living, Eco Expo is on once again in Beaudesert in May this year. Watch this space for more information.

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Check out last year’s student program in the following video from “The Shack”.

With some 300 million people being infected with malaria, including at least one million deaths from this tropical disease, the Rotary Against Malaria (RAM) program has particular significance to clubs in the South Pacific region. This program seeks to educate, as well as to provide essential equipment and training, not only for countries already affected by an increasing presence of malaria but for countries like New Zealand and Australia where vulnerability is very apparent.

Rotary Against Malaria is being supported by many districts in Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. There is a growing recognition of the problem coming from further a field with requests being directed to Rotary International to include malaria as an international eradication program, along the lines of the Polio Plus campaign.

Clubs are asked to support the campaign by raising funds to provide bed nets impregnated with insecticide for distribution to affected areas, to provide microscopes for the early detection of the malaria virus and to provide educational aids to assist local groups in the elimination of mosquito breeding grounds.

The long-term goals of the program are to raise awareness of the menace of malaria, to mobilise Rotary manpower to assist with field trials of vaccine and to have RAM accepted as an international program of Rotary International.

Contact: Keith Reinke (07) 5541 0580
Email: randmore@hotkey.net.au
Website: http://www.rotarymalaria.org/