Rotary Club of Vacoas Cheese & Wine Fundraising

The Rotary Club of Vacoas has recently organised a Cheese & Wine Fundraising Event at Jet Ranch, Mare Longue on 2nd September 2017. The objective of this project was to raise funds for Rotary Foundation for End-Polio projects.

The Rotary Foundation spends the donations received on life-changing, sustainable projects to make lives better around the world. These donations make a difference to those who need our help most. Rotary is dedicated to end polio forever. With these donations, Rotary has wiped out 99.9 percent of all polio cases. A child can be protected from polio with as little as 60 cents. It should be noted that for every $1 Rotary commits to polio eradication, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $2. Besides, it is also aimed at creating the first Obstetrics Intensive Care Unit (OICU) in a regional hospital in Mauritius to support and ensure improved access to quality reproductive health services, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and postnatal care for mothers.

Currently, the high risk pregnant women in Mauritius are taken care of either in the ICUs together with other non pregnant patients and males or in routine Prenatal and Postnatal wards. These women require specialised close monitoring and intensive care compared to women with normal pregnancies and setting up of an obstetric ICU will ensure better care and management to the patients as well as ensure their privacy and dignity. In an Obstetrics Intensive Care Unit (OICU), high risk mothers will definitely receive better monitoring and treatment and the morbidity and maternal mortality rate of women in Mauritius will definitely be reduced. The cost of this project will amount to around 4 Million Rupees. Several fundraising events are planned throughout the year for this project.

“Fundraising activities such as games, photo booth and tombola were organised during the event. Around 300 participants attended the event. Rotarians had the great pleasure to discuss about Rotary and our activities so as to create awareness among the guests. Wine tasting was sponsored by Le Connoisseur by Oxenham, cheese tasting by The Gourmet Emporium Ltd & Les Chefs du Coeur, JMG provided us with the Samsung gear VR game, Jet Ranch sponsored the venue and Indra Domaine Les Pailles, American Café, Kalidore, Bhageerutty Commercial Centre, Oxenham, Forward Psychology Consulting Ltd and our Rotarians contributed for the tombola gifts.”