About 30 Rotarians and friends from Metro Vancouver loaded a shipping container with $250,000 of used medical equipment bound for Ukraine through the local multi-club system, Rotary World Help at warehouse on Riverview Lands, the site of the former Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, BC.
Rotary World Help is a non profit organization aimed at collecting and distributing medical equipment & supplies, dental, optical, education & sports equipment and disaster relief supplies to international recipients in need. We are a non-religious, non-political charity run by 43 Rotary Clubs in British Columbia, including Rotary Club of Ladner.
As the year ends, this shipping container is the 14th in 2023, with some going to the Philippines, Kenya, Guatemala, Ethiopia and Ukraine, which will have received eight from this year alone. Over time, Rotary World Help has shipped 444 containers of equipment and supplies to 61 countries at a total estimated value of over $155 million.
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Ladner Rotary Past President Bridget Jacob serves on the Rotary World Help board | Bridget with son, Tristan |
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Ladner Rotary Past President Patricia Sibley (right) with President of the Canadian Medical Association Dr. Kathleen Ross, a family physician who is a member of the Rotary Club of Coquitlam and RWH board | Patricia's son-in-law, Bobby, from Ladner, has been the Rotary World Help forklift driver for many recent years |
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Former Ladner Rotary member, now with Vancouver Arbutus club, Elena Murgoci, with Bridget | Patricia and Past District Governor Hans Doge, of the Vancouver Arbutus club |
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Peter Roaf (l) with Bobby and his parents visiting from the Philippines | Rotary Club of Vancouver Arbutus, sponsor of this shipping container to the Ukraine. |
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