Needy communities in the Philippines receiving medical equipment

Posted by Peter Roaf on Jan 12, 2019
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Rotary clubs in General Santos, the southernmost city in the Philippines on the island of Mindanao, will be receiving medical and dental equipment, plus books and student desks for needy communities in the region, thanks to Rotary World Help, based in Metro Vancouver. -- photos by Peter Roaf and Drew Antrobus

 
On hand at the Riverview Hospital site in Coquitlam January 12, 2019 to load this Philippines-bound container were 28 Rotarians from Ladner and some of the 37 other clubs in Rotary Districts 5040 and 5050 in the BC Lower Mainland which are members of RWH.
 
This container will be the 395th RWH has sent to 62 countries for 11.8 million people in regions in need throughout the world over the past 25 years, for an estimated value of CDN$138 million.
 
Ladner Rotarians participating in the project were Graham Witcher, Ulf Ottho, Peter Roaf and Patricia Sibley, whose son-in-law operated the forklift.