Rotary

Our Rotary Connection:

Angela Brady initiated our introduction to Nepean and Penrith Rotary Clubs in January 2007. Our first talk was in March. They have supported us every step of the way financially, emotionally and with our endless piles of paperwork.

Special thanks goes to Rob Ely and Frank Portelli for their time and help.
They linked us with Rotary International Volunteers and we travelled under their project plan.

The Aussi Bangla Smile is now registered as a Rotary Project.

Presentation of personalised Rotary T shirts and badges to the team:

Rotary Club of Dhaka

This is the presentation night for all the team with Rotary Club of Dhaka

Every team member was presented with a lovely silver plate with personalised engraving.

Dhaka Rotary Club also gave the team two banners - one to be presented to Rotary  Club of Nepean at their meeting in May and the other to Rotary Australia World Community Services at their next meeting in Sydney in August

There are also two plates to be presented to RAWCS members John Roberson and Jack Elliott for their assistance to the Aussi Bangla Smile Project.

Rotary Club of Dhaka were of great assistance to the team on this trip. They met us at the airport and accompanied us to the hotel.  Next morning they escorted us to the Acid Burn Survivors Foundation and to Mother Theresa’s Orphanage.

Members accompanied one of the Bangaldeshi doctors on the 6 hour minibus trip to meet the Jibon Tari at Chandpur, and while there went shopping for the team to purchase school backpacks complete with all school equipment necessary to fill them for our  39 patients On Jibon Tari Floating Hospital.

Dhaka Rotary are also following up on our little underweight babies we sent to the childrens hospital.
They gave us a lovely dinner presentation night.  Spent a get together dinner at our hotel and farewelled the team on our last day in Bangladesh.

Since our return on March 29 we have had several emails and everyone is looking forward to next trip in late 2010 when Rotary Club of Dhaka have again pledged their help.