DIK Southern Region Annual Report 2008-09

Southern Region Australia of Rotary International consists of Districts and Clubs in Victoria and Tasmania.

Southern Region Districts and Clubs 2009

District 9780 - 61 Clubs

District 9790 - 60 Clubs

District 9800 - 70 Clubs

District 9810 - 52 Clubs

District 9820 - 51 Clubs

District 9830 (Tasmania) - 48 Clubs

Recipient countries include Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Zambia.

Partnerships with Rotary DIK
We continue to work with a number of partners on various projects.   

Daniel Zuzek from Boab Medical put me in touch with a number of contacts with offers of donations of medical goods. Daniel is truly a "Friend of Rotary", with his contacts and ongoing support of DIK.

We also value the help and expertise of the Victorian Student Aid Program (VSAP) who are of medical students, resident in International House, Melbourne University. They came over to the Essendon Store to help sort out and repack medical items for us.
 
We continue to receive donations of goods, particularly from "Friends of Rotary" and some individual Rotarians. Naturally, we cannot ask our "Friends" for funds to send their goods over to third world countries, as they have been more than generous with their donation of goods.

We are continuing to seek funds from Clubs for DIK.

There were a number of times goods were transferred between DIK depots to help fulfil "wish lists". Once again we are indebted to our volunteers.

I want to remind all Rotarians that in the financial year 2008-09 DIK Southern Region was a $5 million enterprise. This is a slight decrease over last year of $2.2 million.

Goods were valued at $4.4 million
Volunteer labour valued at $610,000

See full report and table with attached link on left side of this page or click here.

Individual reports of each District are available on their District web sites.

I want to inform all Clubs of the availability of speakers on DIK. Contact your District International chair. Once again I would ask that all Clubs put aside some funds for DIK.

As Southern Region Co-ordinator, I wish to continue and consolidate liaison between Districts and Regions for expertise, ideas and goods for distribution to developing countries.

I would like to continue to raise the profile of DIK as a worthwhile program of Rotary.

David Meller PP PHF
Southern Region Co-ordinator Rotary International of DIK
(R.C. Strathmore)