ROMAC
There are no paid staff and the small administration expenses incurred are paid from another income stream.100 cents in every $1 given to ROMAC goes to directly helping a child.
ROMAC Objectives
- Provide hope and restore dignity to transform a child’s life
- Provide the best possible surgical and medical expertise
- Engage Rotary and the community at all levels to fund and support the ROMAC cause
- To maintain and improve the quality of the management process and ensure high quality governance of the ROMAC program
History of ROMAC
ROMAC commenced in March 1988 out of the actions of an Australian Rotarian who, with a group of surgeons, visited Lambasa in Fiji.
They found the child mortality rate as high as 25% in some places and quickly identified that lack of medical and surgical facilities and skills for children of the island nations, was a major cause.
Rotary faced the challenge to assist an 18-year-old Fijian girl whose right leg was threatened if immediate surgery was not performed.
During the next four years, eight children were brought to Australia for major, often lifesaving surgery.
Soon 20 Rotary clubs were caught up in the success of each case and assisted in various ways.
ROMAC quickly went about harnessing assistance from medical experts, hospitals, nurses, physiotherapists, pathology and radiology services, airlines, sponsors and other supporters. ROMAC was making a difference, ROMAC was Giving Life to children who had no hope!
Today ROMAC is Giving Life to around 50 children every year – we are making a huge difference in the lives of these small Island Countries.