Container on its way to Chile

 

The load included 30 hospital beds, 9 manual and 2 electric wheelchairs, a full dental office including chair and all the instruments, Infant Incubator, 2 ultrasound machines and boxes and boxes of medical supplies and equipment.

The equipment and supplies are donated by hospitals, medical centres, senior’s facilities and dental offices in Metro Vancouver and other locations in BC.  Rotary World Help is a multi-club and multi district Rotary project.

 

The cost of shipping the container was $8000.  The estimated replacement value of the 35,000 pounds of material shipped is in excess of $200,000.00.

 

Financial support came from:

Special thanks to the volunteers from Rotary World Help that made this project possible and the volunteers from other clubs that assisted in loading the container.

A a very big thank you to our members that came out to load the container, those that did all the behind the scenes work to raise funds and those that did the paper work. Well done!!
 

TEAM LADNER Art Birk, Barry Irvine, Steve Strang, Patricio Ramirez, Linda Ottho, Glyn Abraham, Ulf Ottho, Larry Pretty, Chris Offer