Lambano Paediatric Hospice, Rotary District 9400 Blanket Drive, Wheelchairs, Call Back the Past, Professor Peter Cleaton-Jones and Rotary in Action.

Last Week



 Stewart Mutokonya from Lambano came to talk to us about the new Paediatric Hospice that they building in Kensington to replace their current hospice.  I wrote a lot about it last week so I won't repeat what I had written previously.
Stewart is very articulate and his talk stimulated a lot of questions.  Unfortunately the Rotary Blanket Drive meant that a number of members were busy trying to raise money for blankets outside Pick 'n Pay on William Nicol Drive.

Our efforts for the Rotary District 9400 Blanket Drive took place from last Friday to Sunday this week......I don't know the results yet.

Cesare Vidulich organised a wheelchair for the local Lions Club
and they not only photographed it but also thanked us.  It's very good thing that we are able to assist another service organisation.

We have also provided two wheelchairs for Lambano Paediatric Hospice, specifically to assist with moving children from room to room.

Mark Franklin passed this photograph around for us to see...who is that distinguished looking Rotarian with dark hair I wonder?

This Week
Our speaker is Peter Cleaton-Jones who will be talking to us on health issues. He is a qualified dentist, medical practitioner and scientist. 

His main academic career was in dental research and anaesthesia; from 1977 to 2006 he was Professor of Experimental Odontology Director of the Dental Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand which was a joint Medical Research Council / University research entity between 1977 and 2004. 
On retiring in 2006 he was appointed a Professor Emeritus for life. Peter has been active in training researchers shown by 95 successfully supervised master and doctoral degrees and as co-presenter (with Prof E Grossman) of a 50 hour research training course which was attended by 1834 participants between 1978 and 2010. 
He has spent time in research entities in Denmark, England and Switzerland; in England he was a visiting professor in the Department of Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Leeds 2004-2010. Since 1974 he has served continuously on the Wits’ Human Research Ethics Committee (Medical), on the Medical Research Council’s Ethics Committee (1990-2002, Chair 1998-2002) and the Human Sciences Research Council Ethics Committee (2003-present, on request from the HSRC he formed the committee in 2003 and was Chair until 2005). 
From 2006-2014 he was an Honorary Adjunct Professor in the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics; in 2015 his title was changed to Honorary Professor. 

Rotary in Action