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During 2022-2023, Rotary Bacchus Marsh was delighted to join with Rotary Clubs around Australia in an exciting project, EndTrachoma, which is now channelled through the Families as First Teachers (FaFT) program. We teamed up with our friends from the Rotary clubs of Balwyn and Bayside Geelong to transport our combined 66 kits to ensure that all families would receive their kits at the same time.
This project was established in 2017 and contributes hygiene products and equipment to remote aboriginal communities in an effort to reduce, and hopefully eventually eliminate, the preventable eye condition, trachoma, an eye infection that can lead to blindness.
The key objectives of this project are:
Our family hygiene kits have now been delivered to the remote area school at Kalkarindji in the NT!
The project co-ordinator has received a call from the teacher at Kalkarindji to say that they have received the kits and they just loved them. She was "blown away" by the number of items and the hand made bags. On the 6th and 7th of December, "Santa", aka the teacher, handed out the kits whilst educating everyone on how to use the items.
We would like to thank UFS Pharmacy, Bacchus Marsh, for their generous contribution in the form of toiletry items for our family kits. Students from Bacchus Marsh Primary School were excited to include some Principal approved photos to share with the children of Kalkarindji School.
Click on the Video below to see information about the school and our contribution to the project.
This project was established in 2017 and contributes hygiene products and equipment to remote aboriginal communities in an effort to reduce, and hopefully eventually eliminate, the preventable eye condition, trachoma, an eye infection that can lead to blindness.
The key objectives of this project are:
- to reduce the incidence of, and eventually eliminate, trachoma in remote indigenous communities
- to raise awareness of the importance of facial hygiene in the prevention of trachoma
- to provide products and equipment to facilitate good hygiene practices in children and families
- to engage local schools in the fight against trachoma and
- to ensure that hygiene kits are distributed in the context of a hygiene education project.
Our family hygiene kits have now been delivered to the remote area school at Kalkarindji in the NT!
The project co-ordinator has received a call from the teacher at Kalkarindji to say that they have received the kits and they just loved them. She was "blown away" by the number of items and the hand made bags. On the 6th and 7th of December, "Santa", aka the teacher, handed out the kits whilst educating everyone on how to use the items.
We would like to thank UFS Pharmacy, Bacchus Marsh, for their generous contribution in the form of toiletry items for our family kits. Students from Bacchus Marsh Primary School were excited to include some Principal approved photos to share with the children of Kalkarindji School.
Click on the Video below to see information about the school and our contribution to the project.