Promoting a healthy life
This campaign followed Rotary International’s crusade to eradicate polio world-wide, which was astoundingly successful.
Caxton community newspapers around the country, including the Joburg East Express, teamed up with Rotary and the Department of Health to fight HIV/Aids and TB through family health days.
The health days took place from Wednesday to Friday last week at 120 sites in all nine provinces.
Advertisements and editorials, included in all Caxton newspapers for weeks leading up to the initiative, promoted the campaigns in each respective area.
Other major partners in the initiative were the MTN SA Foundation and the SABC.
This campaign followed Rotary International’s crusade to eradicate polio world-wide, which was astoundingly successful.
The focus has now moved to HIV/Aids in Africa, South Africa in particular.
Inspired by US Rotarian Marion Bunch, this was the third Rotary Family Health Day campaign and the biggest to date.
The organisers aimed to provide free health screenings and immunisations to about 75 000 community members.
The various clubs, together with their respective local partners, also provided other medical help, including blood pressure testing, diabetes, sight problems, safe circumcisions and a variety of other procedures.
In some areas, the Department of Home Affairs also set up mobile stations to help with identity documents and birth certificates.
Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon assisted various clubs in the Angelo Informal Settlement in Boksburg.
Luthuli Museum, Illembe, in Kwa-Zulu Natal, was been chosen this year for the Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi to launch the campaign, together with Caxton and all respective partners attending.
