Content about donations in kind
Content Item - Busy Working Bee at Donations In Kind warehouse!
Repacking corporate & school apparel for shipping to Timor and elsewhere, Rotary Prahran joined Rotarians from Malvern & the E-Club to get this donated stock moving!
Topics: donations in kind, rotary working bee, sarah flannery, susie cole, gilly swinnerton
Read More...Event - Packing medical equipment container for Quezon Philippines
Rotary Club of Prahran are packing a container with hospital beds & medical supplies at Rotary's Donations In Kind warehouse, to ship to the Quezon Medical Centre, Lucena City in the Philippines. The Lucena City Rotarians will oversee the transhipping,unpacking & use in the new Rotary Hall (obstetrics & gynaecology)to help with overcrowding in the Centre where currently around 400 new mothers & babes share 250 beds at any given time.
Our club is paying for the shipping & duties to ensure these donated goods are put to good use.
Topics: donations in kind, hospital supplied to quezon medical centre, obstetrics & gynaecology lucena city
Read More...Content Item - 400 Phillippine mums & babies don't fit into 250 hospital beds
Rotary Club of Prahran learns about how to improve the conditions in Quezon Medical Centre, Philippines, for mothers & babies in overcrowded situations.
Topics: recycled hospital beds, quezon medical centre, donations in kind, ruth carlos-martinez
Read More...Event - Lunch meeting
Laurence Fisher from Donations In Kind warehouse.
Donations in Kind (DIK) is a program supported by Rotary Clubs in Australia which grew out of the compassion and concern of returning overseas volunteers. This recycling and reuse program involves the collection, sorting, packing, dispatch and distribution of donated items to countries in need of these goods.
Many goods and products, for which organisations in Australia have no further use, are valuable commodities in needy countries.
While 50 computers with non-flat screen monitors and less than 1 gigabyte of memory may be obsolete for some corporate offices, they might instead be of significant value in helping the education of underpriveleged students in East Timorese universities or in assisting with the accountancy of microfinance finance projects in Africa.
Topics: donations in kind, equipment recycling, reusing office equipment
Read More...Photo Gallery - Meeting Guest Speakers
Laurie Fisher spoke to the Club on 19th January, about Donations In Kind Warehouse, the wonderful District 9800 recycling operation, run by volunteers, that receives clothing, medical equipment and supplies, school furniture and books, computers, bicycles and more to be shipped to a range of Rotary projects worldwide.
Clubs contribute funds towards rent and shipping but over the years, $16 worth of good has been shipped for every $1 spent on freight. Over the last 14 years 410 containers have been shipped, reusing approximately 23,800m3 of things that may have ended up in landfill, sending around $38,000,000 worth of goods, with volunteer labour saving $3,500,000 (allocated as Overseas Aid)!
For more information about Donations In Kind, how you can source goods or access goods for a worthwhile project, visit the DIK website.
Topics: donations in kind, laurie fisher, equipment recycling
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