Message from the Chair
As we commence the new Rotary year, we congratulate all new office bearers and wish you well in your Rotary service. We hope you will follow with interest how ROMAC helps children from Oceania who need medical treatment.
We welcome DGE Christine Dufty from Rotary District 9780 to the ROMAC Board as our new DGE representative. Christine joins DG Stephen O’Connell who is now our DG representative.
ROMAC recently advertised for people to fill its three vacancies, and I am pleased to say we received 9 applications. Short-listing and interviewing is currently underway. We hope to have made appointments by mid August so that the successful applicants can join all our other ROMAC volunteers at our annual face-to-face meeting in Sydney from 12-15 September.
Starting back up after COVID continues to provide ROMAC with challenges. While Australian and New Zealand hospitals are slowly opening up to us again, and a few new hospitals have come onboard, the number of referrals we are receiving from our Oceania neighbours has fallen since the pandemic.
It's time to re-establish and strengthen our relationships with our in-country Rotary Club colleagues and with our network of doctors working in these Oceania countries. All these tasks require the time and effort of our dedicated group of volunteers but there is only so much people can do.
We are constantly needing more volunteers to help us with all these tasks so if you would like to help and participate in this extremely rewarding and enormously impactful work, please contact me at chair@romac.org.au OR our Acting HR, Training & Recruitment Chair, Maggie Alexander, at hr@romac.org.au.
We welcome DGE Christine Dufty from Rotary District 9780 to the ROMAC Board as our new DGE representative. Christine joins DG Stephen O’Connell who is now our DG representative.
ROMAC recently advertised for people to fill its three vacancies, and I am pleased to say we received 9 applications. Short-listing and interviewing is currently underway. We hope to have made appointments by mid August so that the successful applicants can join all our other ROMAC volunteers at our annual face-to-face meeting in Sydney from 12-15 September.
Starting back up after COVID continues to provide ROMAC with challenges. While Australian and New Zealand hospitals are slowly opening up to us again, and a few new hospitals have come onboard, the number of referrals we are receiving from our Oceania neighbours has fallen since the pandemic.
It's time to re-establish and strengthen our relationships with our in-country Rotary Club colleagues and with our network of doctors working in these Oceania countries. All these tasks require the time and effort of our dedicated group of volunteers but there is only so much people can do.
We are constantly needing more volunteers to help us with all these tasks so if you would like to help and participate in this extremely rewarding and enormously impactful work, please contact me at chair@romac.org.au OR our Acting HR, Training & Recruitment Chair, Maggie Alexander, at hr@romac.org.au.
For the full ROMAC update please visit this link.
Yours in Rotary
Ian D'Arcy Walsh
Ian D'Arcy Walsh
