On Tuesday August 3, Immediate Past President Robbie (on the right) hands over the new Baby Incubator that has been funded by the Rotary Club of Shoreline Breakfast to Gloria (centre), who is Manager of the Crisis Care Centre in Kaliasem, Lovina.  On the left is Nurse Kadek. 

A couple of months back the Rotary Club of Shoreline Breakfast contacted Rotary Clubs in Bali seeking opportunities to assist.  (Shoreline is about 20 Km north of Seattle in Washington State with the waterways of Puget Sound to the west, and Lake Washington to the east).  Rotarian Michael Young from our club thought of the Crisis Care Centre in Kaliasem so contacted Gloria.  She was wanting a baby incubator - she had previously had one but lent it to a Singaraja hospital which kept on using it.

Rotarian Michael, and our then President  Robbie, sent this information to Rotarian Stanley Graves at the Shoreline Club, and the first thought was that they would acquire an incubator and send it.  But because there would be customs difficulties, and because an incubator sourced in the US may not easily plug in here, the plan was changed.  The Shoreline Club sent funds (US$3,000) and the baby incubator was purchased from an Indonesian supplier for about $1,200.  (Take a look at the specifications of the selected baby incubator, and you will see one feature is low power consumption which is really important here.)

The balance of the funds has been used for new tyres for the Crisis Care minibus, water pumps, and medical supplies including anti-rabies vaccine.