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Tasting
the famous Bario pineapple
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Welcoming
music using improvised musical instruments
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President
& 1st Lady with one of the residents of the long house
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A photo on
the hill top in Bario
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PROJECTS |
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BARIO
Projects:
A Community
Service Project through the Donation of One Complete Self Portable
Dental Equipment and Dental Chair to the Bario Community
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BACKGROUND:
BARIO is a village community deep in the
interior highland of Sarawak. Best known for
its hill paddy namely "Bario Rice"
(a premium rice).
RCKC has been assisting the Bario community
since 1998 by providing building materials in
the construction of a suspension bridge
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The catalyst of our present Bario Dental
Equipment project dated back to Rotary year
1999/2000 with the request from the community
through the principal of SMK Bario, namely Ms.
Lucy Bulan. Our assistance was sought to
provide a dental chair for the community as
the existing dental chair was in a very poor
state.
Our board of directors approved as to the
project and upon our follow up and
communication with Ms. Lucy Bulan and the
doctors/dentists of Miri Hospital and the
"flying doctor" service to Bario, it
was determined that the real need to the Bario
community was in fact for a dental equipment
to be permanently housed in Bario.
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Prior
to this the flying doctor service in Bario was
only able to carry out tooth extraction as
there was no dental equipment to carry out
basic tooth filling and other dental
procedures.
As the result of our club donation of a
portable dental equipment, the Bario community
will now benefit from having better dental
care and health care. The procedure will still
be carried out by the flying doctors / dentist
service. Plan has been |
made
for the Miri Hospital to train nurses based in
Bario on basic dental procedures, so as to
provide basic dental care in the absence of
the "flying doctor service".
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FUNDING/SPONSORS:
Once the dental equipment has been identified
with recommendation from Miri Hospital the
task was in the raising of RM15,000 -RM18,000
towards the costs of the equipment.
The majority of the funds was raised by way of
generous direct donations by our own members
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RM2000
was kindly donated by the Rotary Club of
Orskog District 2280, Norway which was
chartered on 13th May 1980. This was made
possible through the good contact of our past
member Rotarian Tor Dalen who is now a member
of this club.
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HANDOVER:
On 16th February 2003 at our regular
club meeting, we have a handing over
ceremony. Present to receive the dental
equipment and dental chair were Yang
Berhormat Dr. Judson Sakai Tagal, the
Assistant Minister for Infrastructure,
Development and Communication Sarawak
who is also the elected State Assembly
Representative of Bario. Also present
were members of the Bario Community. |
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The event proceeded smoothly with the commitment by Minister
Dr. Judson and our club to identify future deserving community
project based on the ideals of Rotary. |
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