I am sure those who were able to attend had a great informal meeting in Chariots, the Wanderer's bar!
Highlands North High School for Boys Interact Club
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| Cesare, Bongani and me. |
I was privileged to be able to present the regalia to Bongani Sakhile Lunga, President of the Interact Club. I took a photograph of the whole club and the teachers who assist...and naturally Cesare Vidulich as well.
The Letter from Dr Mpho to James as mentioned in the President's Comments
Hi James,
I am not sure if you received
this e-mail I sent on the 13th April.
I also thought I should give you
the good news that you can sent to all those who supported us. The South
African National Policy and strategic Framework for Palliative Care that we
presented on the 6th April was approved by the National Health
Council (Minister of Health, 9 MECs from different provinces, Provincial Heads
of Departments and National Executive- Director General and all national DDG).
This means that Palliative Care
is now part of the care to be provided for all those wo need it in South
Africa.
I have attached some of the
correspondence following the presentation in the e-mail from the MEC of Health
Kwazulu Natal Dr Dhlomo, who is the chairperson of the Steering Committee, and
Dr Jeanette Hunter, the Deputy Director General Primary Health Nationally.
Rotary International has made a
mark in the history of Palliative Care in South Africa through supporting the
Gauteng Centre of Excellence for Palliative Care. The Centre is the recognized
model of care for Palliative Care in Tertiary hospital in South Africa.
For the first time, Spiritual
care is officially part of providing health care interventions. This would not
have been possible without the training we received from Debbie.
I believe Rotary will continue
to see their name being mentioned when discussing models of care for palliative
care for years to come.
Thank you all very much from all
staff at the Centre.
Best regards,
Mpho
This Week
Our Speaker is Elise Louw of the SA Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. We have had an ongoing relationship with the Association for a number of years and for last few we have sponsored training the trainer at the College of Orientation and Mobility so that blind people in the rural areas can benefit. This is very worthwhile project.
Freedom and Independence mean different things to different people, but to a person with a visual impairment, it can mean the ability to function in their own home independently, go where he/she likes when he/she likes, be able to continue to work and travel there and back safely on a daily basis, go shopping unaided, visit friends, and go to church. This means the need to adapt or develop new skills to function at home; to learn new skills to know where you are; to know how to get to a desired destination; as well as to be able to move about safely within your own home and further afield independently.
In 1969, the S A Guide-Dogs Association for the Blind became aware of the need for this type of service as a complementary service to Guide Dogs. In 1974, the Orientation & Mobility school was established to train sighted Orientation & Mobility Practitioners, from all over southern Africa, who would in turn train people who were visually impaired. The school became a college in 2006, after becoming an accredited training provider in 2005. There is now a two-year, SAQA-accredited diploma training course run by the College of Orientation & Mobility.
The college was honoured on 25 July 2014, when the COM building was renamed in honour of the late Ken Lord, past Executive Director of the S A Guide-Dogs Association for the Blind.
Presently it is estimated that in South Africa, there are approximately 388 000 individuals who are blind, and approximately 1 300 000 individuals who are partially sighted (formulas taken from the 2010 WHO statistics), and there is a need for professionally-trained practitioners to assist these individuals on an ongoing basis.
From Rotary Down Under...I just liked the heading.
Rotary recreational reading for wrinklies
Since 2005, the Rotary Club of Padstow, NSW, has collected unsold magazines from local newsagents and distributed them to nine local nursing homes and aged care facilities, as well as a local school.
Some nursing homes have local primary school students read the magazines to the residents.
The Rotary Club of Padstow encourages other clubs to consider similar projects to foster literacy rates.
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