Global Grant Takes Place

In mid-August the Rotary Foundation advised it had approved a Global Grant application from Rotary Tauranga for US$72,000 with the money to go towards the cost of providing specialist equipment to furnish an ophthalmology clinic aboard the mercy ship Pacific Hope which provides medical care to people in the Pacific Islands. 

Since this approval, a lot of hard work has gone into the project and equipment has now commenced arriving to complete setting up of the clinic.  The photo shows the delivery of some OIC (Ophthalmic Instrument Company) equipment with (from left to right) Rotarian Dr. Barry Partridge, Pacific Hope Purser Sue Hunt, Dental Technician Marion Boesch and Project Coordinator Rotarian David Garland.