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Volunteer Team bed linen, mattress cover, bed table, crutches,
wheelchair, bandages and Band-Aids, thermometer,
I am not sure when to take a volunteer dental team sphygmomanometer, BP monitor, trolley, gloves,
to Tonga, but I am tentatively aiming for May 2022. masks, rubbish bin/bags, table, chair, hand sanitizer,
Tonga had its first Covid-19 case last week, but it was disinfectant, disposable wound care packs, etc.
a weak positive and kept in isolation. A week-long
lockdown in Tonga has since been lifted. Shipping Container

Library Our shipping container has now arrived at Shed 39,
400 Somerville Road, West Footscray.
I have some excellent bookshelves available thanks
to RC Ballarat East and the Ballarat City Library. The I have not seen the container yet as to what condition
shelving units are modular and easy to assemble. it is in, but hoping it is a good one! We will ready
They are double-sided and come with custom ends. it for shipping before packing the goods in. This
may involve painting the inside white and fitting
carpet tiles. In May, outside painting, windows, and
doors will be added to the container by our Rotary
volunteer team. A date has not been set for final
packing. It will be essential to give thought to loading
the container sequentially, e.g. dental chairs in first
& out last, medical supplies in last & out first, books
& shelving in the middle. Initially, it will need to act
as a part-time storage unit until the donations are
progressively installed, as there is no spare storage
space at the hospital in Tonga.

Wooden crates will be constructed to house the
We also have chairs, tables and filing cabinets dental chairs on top of one another. The shipping
available. I am still looking for more books in good container will arrive in Tonga before our Rotary team
condition, especially for their new resource center, arrives. A volunteer Rotary team will convert this into
which currently has no books! I will need to dismantle a repair store and workshop at the Vaiola Hospital.
the bookcases and transport them together with
many boxes of books to Melbourne. I would like to see everything we need for the
projects assembled at Melbourne DIK and ready to
be packed into the container by Christmas 2021. I am
still awaiting shipping schedules and quotes. Freight
costs for Tonga have significantly escalated recently.

David Goldsmith, Team Leader and Joint Project
Manager, dgold@netconnect.com.au

ADELAIDE COMMUNITY
OUTREACH DENTAL PROGRAM

2020 and 2021 have presented some unique

School First Aid Rooms challenges and also opportunity for innovation for
the Community Outreach Dental Program at the
We are also planning to put three identical first aid University of Adelaide. Thanks to Section VIII of ICD
clinic packages together for the three schools. All and our supporters here in Adelaide we have been
three schools are making rooms available to house able to provide additional dental care for not only
these new medical facilities. our homeless population but also for some other
displaced people.
Here is what we have available and are considering
sending: examination couch, bedside cabinet, Last year we started receiving phone calls from

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