Our club was one of 52 clubs that supported this project, sending 40 toiletry bags filled with hygiene products including shampoo, toothpaste, face washers and brushes etc to the Northern Territory. Please click on https://www.rotaryclubofmerimbula.com.au/page/end-trachoma for more details of our club's efforts in helping to eliminate this terrible disease.
The project aimed to send 2,000 toiletry kits to schools, this target was exceeded with 2,154 kits sent to 32 schools in the Alice Springs region.
The link below takes you the End Trachoma web page where you will find our Club acknowledged and details of other projects. The good news is that since 2008 Trachoma rates have fallen from over 20% to 3.8% nationally: