Cross Pollenization At Nambucca Heads Rotary

Third World Dinner and Interplast by Peter Shea.

At Numbucca Heads Rotary Club a Third World Dinner is held each year. This dinner is based on the basic third world staples, i.e rice and very limited additions.

These ingredients are provided by the members and the local community free of charge. The members then invite their friends and community members to this meal at about the cost of $10:00 per person. I have seen this done very well with each club member taking the responsibility to fill their table by inviting their friends to their table. All cost is meet by members, guest and friends with their contribution of foods and $10:00 becoming a 100% contribution to a charity like Interplast.

In addition, a Tombola is conducted as a part of the meeting. For a month before the dinner, members bring along their surplus unopened gifts as a prize for the Tombola. These gifts can be as simple as home potted cuttings, a dozen home layed eggs or home made jams. All these gifts are place on a table and tickets sold throughout the evening and the tickets are drawn at the end of the meal and fellowship until the last gift is won.

I'll like to present these ideas as an challenge for each club in District 9650 to undertake a Third World Dinner and present the funds raised to Interplast. As a District project each club needs to contribute $600:00 to meet the goal of $32,000 to send an Interplast team to perform about fifty life changing surgical miracles.

For more information on Interplast contact Barry Hacker bhport@bigpond.net.au