Sponsoring the Donations in Kind Store
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The Rotary Club of Hawthorn is proud to be a member of DIK Inc., the major sponsor of Donations In Kind (DIK) West Footscray. The members of this group pay the rent and contribute the majority of the $50,000 pas great success stories. It recycles quality donated goods and gives them to people in genuine need for free.
The results from 2000 – 2013 are spectacular:
- $2,100,000 - raised to pay for freight
- $3,200,000 - the value of the volunteering allocated as overseas aid
- $34,300,000 - of top quality material given to people overseas who deserve our help
- $39,600,000 - the combined total of overseas
- 21,300 m3 - of goods recycled, much of which would have ended up as landfill
- 1,500% - return on investment $2.1 million in freight: $34.3 million shipped
- 387 - containers shipped to 21 countries.
DIK aims to continue to grow and the goals for 2014 are:
- To ship a 20’ container of material overseas each week
- To ship 5,000 school chairs and 2,000 desk to Timor Leste. DIK supports schools throughout the world with a wide range of goods and this is an example of two items to one country
- To ship 300 hospital beds overseas.
To achieve DIK's goals, the Store requires 10,000 volunteer hours to collect and pack material. DIK need to raise $50,000 to fund the store operation and $175,000 for freight. The end result will be $3,000,000 of overseas aid and thousands of people with better lives.
For more information visit www.rotarydik.org or contact the President of the Rotary Club of Hawthorn.
YTD results 1/7/2013 to 31/1/2014
Containers Shipped 31
Timor Leste 2,669 schools chairs and 906 desks shipped
Hospital beds shipped 197
Volunteer hours worked 6,086