As many of you know, we collect foreign coins from our travellers to pass onto the RC of Forest Hill. I received an email from Ron Brooks giving us an update.
I copied it in full below
Dear Gabby
Have just received the 2.5kg of coins via our Warwick Stott that the RC of Nunawading had collected. Thank you so much. That takes the latest total to 58.4kg. We send off coins in 60kg batches
so my trip to the RC of Rowville Lysterfield tomorrow night should tip us over the edge! That will then make 480kg of coins and notes that have been shipped to UNICEF from D9810 since 2015.
I am not sure if you have heard of the Rotary Give Every child a future centenary project. It aims at immunising 100,000 children in the Pacific: https://everychildafuture.com/ It is a UNICEF project that Rotary has agreed to fund. Funds from the last 60kg I sent off went towards Rotary’s contribution and until 2020/21 that will continue to happen. So D9810 are directly contributing the UNICEF money to a Rotary project within UNICEF.
Regards
Ron Brooks
RC of Forest Hill