The Rotary club of Moonah Supports a HUGE variety of Health driven projects both Locally & Internationally. Search each tab for for details on specific projects.
A SIMPLE & cheap test kit that the public can purchase from there local chemist to test for traces of BOWEL CANCER. This test saves lives - by providing EARLY DETECTION.
BOWEL SCAN (See district web site link for more details)
Polio is 99% eradicated world wide thanks to a campaign headed by ROTARY
- A Rotarian Immunizes a child in Bindvasini Village, Nepal, during an April 2008 Subnational Immunization Day.
Polio Plus – POLIO IS CURRENTLY 99% ERADICATED ON A WORLD WIDE SCALE
We are aiming to complete all fundraising for Polio Plus by the end of 2011 – thus doing our part to eradicate polio worldwide for ever - Never to return to cause havoc with peoples health again !!
Child in the St Stevens Hospital receiving rehab
There was a major TASMANIAN ROTARY public awareness campaign on February 26th 2011. At the Rotary Club of Moonah raised close to $2,000 over the span of 6 months, that we handed over to the District Governor, to help children all over the world to never have to be immunised for Polio again !!
WHAT A LEGACY…….
MENTAL HEALTH PROJECTS FOR THE COMMUNITY
In the coming years a variety of Mental Health projects will be high on our agenda as a club. Rotary Tasmania & Beyond Blue have agreed to a pilot program being launched in October 2010 – bringing together two amazing organisations that both want to improve awareness of mental health issues & help Tasmanians who suffer from some form of the debilitating disease. http://beyondblue.org.au/
MENTAL HEALTH
The MOONAH ROTARY CLUB is very interested in helping to raise awareness of mental health issues, and in turn we want to bring together the people who can help both the sufferers & the people care for them under the one roof. We understand the YOUTH in Tasmania will have different needs to the rest of the community – so we have decided to put on seperate events for them throughout the year.
We will be working with interested Mental Health Providers, (in particular BEYOND BLUE), and a variety of key note speakers who will cover specific areas of mental health like post natal depression, or Bi Polar etc, and all the organisations that are able to provide FREE information for our friends in the community.
We are hosting TWO seperate ANNUAL Mental Health Forum each year (ONE FOR YOUTH, & ONE FOR THE GENERAL COMMUNITY). Please go to UPCOMING EVENTS PAGE to find out more details.
AUSTRALIAN ROTARY HEALTH FOUNDATION – SEE VIDEO BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT IT !
MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH AT IT’S BEST………
ROMAC (Rotary Overseas Medical Aid for Children) 
If you look under our INTERNATIONAL pages, you will see more details on these health programs that we support.
ROMAC (Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children) this is where we we bring people (children mainly) to Australia to have long term medical treatments that are impossible in their own countries - like burn treatments, co-joined twins separation’s etc.
ROMAC Mission Statement
To provide medical treatment for children from developing countries in the form of life saving and/or dignity restoring surgery not accessible to them in their home country.
ROMAC Objectives
- To provide hope where there is no hope
- To restore dignity to human life
- To save or transform the lives of children from developing countries.
- To provide the best possible medical and surgical expertise
INTERPLAST
INTERPLAST
INTERPLAST this is a terrific program where Rotary supports the costs for medical teams to go overseas to our neighbouring regions to perform life changing surgeries to 100′s of individuals that would otherwise never happen for them. The medical teams also use their talents to train the local teams whilst there to help leave an ever more positive mark on the area when they leave. Go to www.interplast.com.au or go to our INTERNATIONAL page for more photos & details.
ROTARIANS AGAINST MALARIA
Rotarians aginst MALARIA (RAM) is another terrific initative to help PREVENT ILLNESS & DISEASE around the globe. See our INTERNATIONAL page for more details on the Rotary project.
3H Grants
Is another health program that Rotary supports that is positioned more toward providing funding to organisations to help with research. Go to District or Rotary Australia website for more details. (on home page)