Last week several members of the Community Service group spent a couple of hours packing 60 toiletry kits to send to Nganmarriyanga, an indigenous community 350 kms southwest of Darwin. The kits contain 8-10 items including facewasher, hand towel, toothbrush and Shampoo, to name but a few. The kits also contain an illustrated card, “Milpa’s Six Steps to Stop Germs” and are distributed by the school to families of 5–10-year-old children. Trachoma is apparently still present in Nganmarriyanga and it’s hoped that this initiative will go some way to preventing spread of this infective cause of eye disease.
Many thanks to Ian Dobson whose staff sewed the cotton bags and to Club members who enthusiastically sourced the various items and securing donations to the order of $800-900.
The packing session concluded with a few nibbles and a pleasant glass of wine.
 Maria Pantling, Kay Widmer, Rod Smith, Geoff Widmer & Joanne Shentu |