Rotary Hawthorn weekly meeting

The first meeting of the year will showcase our latest project, comfort care packs for Alfred Hospital Mental Health Care Unit.  Come along to show support for our new Club President Tilak Dissanayake who will tell us why he is so passoniate about assisting those people in the local community that are less fortunate and then he will will introduce Bronwyn Stephens Past District Governor . This project is consortium of clubs led by Bronwyn (who developed this project) and the Rotary Club of Melbourne South. We will show a video detailing the project followed by some Q & A.

The Alfred Hospital Mental Health Unit has 1,200 admissions annually, many patients admitted have no care items. Around 40% of admissions are homeless. Even if not homeless, 68% of patients arrive as involuntary patients so they are not prepared for a stay at the hospital- the average stay is 17 days. Therefore, our project purpose is to provide a welcome care pack providing toiletries and comfort items. We want patients to know that the staff and wider society care about them and wish for them to be comfortable and recover.