RAWCS PROJECTS
RAWCS activities and projects do immeasurable good around the world, every day of every week of every year.
Programs provided through RAWCS donations and volunteer efforts provide clean water, protect against malaria and shelter otherwise homeless families every day...and much more...
While RAWCS conducts a huge variety of projects catering to the most pressing needs of developing countries, a number of key RAWCS programs provide ongoing assistance to in specific areas where help is needed most.
Key RAWCS Programs include:
Rotarians Against Malaria | Safe Water Saves Lives | Donations In Kind | Project Volunteers | Project Examples
Rotarians Against Malaria
Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM) is the RAWCS program dedicated to the fight against Malaria, one of the major health threats in the world today.
Malaria is a potentially fatal blood disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted to human and animal hosts by the Anopheles mosquito.
More than two billion people live at risk from Malaria. With more than 500 million infected with the parasite, 2-3 million die of the disease each year.
RAM's current programs are focused on the Pacific region, particularly the Solomon Islands and Papua-New Guinea, using long-life, insecticide-treated bed nets to protect people during the evening, when mosquitoes feed. The nets not only protect the people sleeping beneath them, but also kill mosquitoes that come in contact.
Using the Adopt-a-Village program and funds from Rotary Matching Grants, RAM will supply the treated bed-nets to villagers in a planned program.
Click here to read more about RAM and how you can get involved in stopping the spread of Malaria.
Safe Water Save Lives
Safe Water Save Lives (SWSL) is a program to supply clean water to desperate people in underdeveloped countries through a planned system of water catchment, storage and reticulation.
It includes training local people in the construction of concrete tanks, and encourages them to maintain and protect their water supply system. Education in hygiene is also offered.
RAWCS volunteers travel to the various countries to instruct the local people in the skills of concrete tank construction, or other types of tanks, or tube wells.The Save Water Save Lives committee has traditionally organised, arranged funding, planned and constructed water systems including pumps, pipelines and tanks in Pacific Island and SE Asian countries including Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Nepal, Kiribati and others. The aim of the program is to provide clean water for drinking and other purposes in rural villages
Click here to read more about SWSL and how you can get involved in ensuring every child has safe drinking water.
Donations In Kind
Donations In Kind (DIK) is the program whereby Rotarians and Rotary Clubs source surplus goods and products within Australia that have no further use here and provide them to regions which can utilise them.
Rotary's Donations In Kind program provides a central coordination point for storage, packing and dispatch of goods for local and international efforts, minimising the costs associated with getting goods to where they are needed in the world.
If you have quantities of goods, equipment or products that you no longer need but that could be utilised by others in need, please make contact with Donations In Kind. Your contribution could make a big difference in someone's life somewhere in the world.
Click here to read more about DIK and how you can get involved in donating surplass goods to countries in need.
Project Volunteers 
Projects are listed by country and the list is updated every three months. Some projects show that only funds are sought, others will require volunteers.
Click here to read more about RAWCS Volunteer Projects and how you can get involved in changing the world through hands-on efforts.
Some Example Projects
COOK ISLANDS
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Dental Clinic, Raratonga, Cook Islands.(pdf file) Upgrading of dental facilities, installation of 2 new surgeries, upgrading of dental prosthesis labs etc. Project of RC of Ballarat West, |
FIJI
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Schools Project, Lautoka, Fiji 12/2007-8 To provide support for the children of the Rotary Village, Koroipita by establishing a library, computers and classroom furniture. |
INDONESIA
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Rotary Youth Centre of Banda Aceh |
MONGOLIA
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Installation of a new CatheterX-ray Laboratory Machine, Shastin Hospital, Ulaabaatar, Mongolia. 11/2008-09 Commencing in April 2009, teams of volunteer medical engineers, builders, carpenters, electricians and vinyl floor layers installed the donated machine and trained staff in its use. |
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
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Installation of water supply to Eduvu, 6/2008-09 |
THAILAND
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Sunrise Children’s Homes (Destiny Rescue). 59/2008-09 To provide Homes for children unable to attend school because of the distance from their home village and/or for children rescued from child prostitution - a partnership with Destiny Rescue www.destinyrescue.org to assist in educating these children so that they have alternative career paths. |
TIMOR LESTE
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Water Supply, Motaulun, Timor Leste. 77/2008-09 |
In Readiness for the 2010 mass distribution of ‘Bed Nets’,a commitment for RAM to erect four ‘all steel houses and four sheds’ for the malaria program in the Solomon Islands has been completed by teams of Volunteers from Central, Southern, Eastern, and Northern Regions.