Queensland Flood Devastation - 2011
Rotary can best assist after the initial emergency response has been completed by specialised emergency services.
Rotary can, in the true spirit of our wonderful organisation, help individuals, families and communities to re-build with projects customised to suit their disparate local needs.
Help is greatly needed if anyone can assist in any way possible...
- Some property owners are able to pay for work on repairing fencing and general property rehabilitation.
- Some property owners including young irrigation farmers who are not well established, have lost everything and forward sold crops they will now have to purchase, in order to fill the contract. This could prove to be an impossible task.
- These farmers will be unable to pay for rehabilitation work and therefore need volunteers to help with a few days on their properties.
- Work could include, fencing, collecting irrigation equipment washed down-stream, restoring sheds, tracks, head ditches and drains etc.
If there is anyone out there who can help with these tasks please contact:
Emerald Rotarian Leon Clothier on Mobile: 0427 855 304, Home: 07 4985 5304 or Email:
lrclothier@activ8.net.au
Leon has been doing a marvellous job organising this process for their District.
Photos from Emerald Region
2010 Report
Our farm aid program continued throughout the year with three families from Victoria Bush fire area accepting the clubs offer. Jason and Lisa Goring from Clonbinane Victoria followed by Tony and Natalie Laurie from the same region. Both families had lost all their possessions in the black Saturday fires and almost their lives. The third family were the Camilleri family Des and Leanne and their five daughters, again a lucky tail of survival.
The program then switched back to NSW where the ongoing drought conditions were still persisting especially in the south west of the state.
In September 2010 we are organising a team of volunteers to trek to Naradhan NSW to assist in the replacement of lost fences on numerous properties. Visiting Rotary members are welcome to join the team. Contact is (02)-4284-2361
The fact that we have been able to acquire a private home at the resort at a much cheaper rate has helped this program continue to bring much needed help to families in need in the ongoing drought regions of the state. I wish to thanks those members of the club who have made this program so successful.
