Page 7 - Connections Issue 2 Autumn 2020

Successful District Grants 2019—2020

Rotary Club of PROSPECT
Activity Type: Health/General
Activity Description: Birthing Kits
Activity Location: North Adelaide Croquet Club

The Rotary Club of Prospect agreed to purchase and assemble
birthing kits to be distributed by the Birthing Kit Foundation (BKF) to
Uganda.
Robert Roocke contacted the BKF for information needed to
purchase the components and organise the assembly day—at the
North Adelaide Croquet Club on 17 November 2019. Robert Roocke
and Marilyn, and Doug and Lynne Layng met the week before to fold
the 400 plastic sheets and insert them into the bags ready for the final
assembly.
The project was promoted to club members, family and friends and
thirty-six people gathered to help on assembly day as well as Rachel
Sanderson, local MP for Adelaide and District Governor Jane Owens.
The various components of the birthing kits and the assembly process
were explained by DG Jane and volunteers were given instructions on
the use of hand disinfectant and that gloves must be worn.
Volunteers gathered at tables of six or seven and chose their preferred
role in the assembly.
A team worked together to ensure materials were ready for the
assemblers and collected the finished kits for final packing. They finished the day with refreshments and left feeling “… really
good about our achievement.”
The whole process took approximately 2.5 hours and everyone agreed
they had enjoyed working as a group to provide a simple package that The final claim for the District Grant was $2000.00 an extra
could save the life of a mother and baby. $500.00 not required as goods and services were donated.

Rotary Club of ADELAIDE PARKS
Activity Type: Health—General
Activity Description: Multifunctional Rehabilitation System
Activity Location: SA Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit
(BIRU) Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre

The Rotary Club of Adelaide Parks, with collaborating partners Rotary Clubs of
Adelaide Light, D9510online, and West Torrens, and Rotarian Bob Congdon and
Pamela Congdon purchased and delivered the ‘PABLO Multifunctional
Rehabilitation’ system to SA Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit (BIRU), Hampstead
Rehabilitation Centre. It includes several components (hand sensor, motion
sensor, multiball, multiboard), all connected via Bluetooth technology to a
computer, giving therapists point in time data about brain-injured patients’
rehabilitation.
Therapy applications are extensive and include functional training, e.g. sit and
stand, isometric training, gait analysis, wheel-chair accessibility, unilateral and
bilateral training, and hand force control. The system also includes various
interactive therapy games which are designed for the pace, needs and goals of the
rehabilitation, to address each patient’s functional status and drive
neuroplasticity.
The system’s software maintains a complete record of each patient’s therapy,
making it easy to evaluate the efficacy of the therapy.
It is used with both adults and children and up to three workstations can be used
with the one device.

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