Rotary Boosts Net Campaign
the cambodia daily

	The Rotary Club of Phnom Penh has boosted the Cambodia Daily 
Mosquito Net Campaign with a donation of nearly $2,500.
	Rotary Club President Josette Laau personally gave an 
additional $500, bringing the total to $2,976. The donation was 
presented at a recent club meeting at the Inter-Continental Hotel.
	The money will be used to buy mosquito nets for more than 
1,700 refugees in the town of Sisophon near the Thai border. 
	Rotary International is a philanthropic organization famous 
around the world, dedicated to community service, fellowship and 
ethics. The Phnom Penh chapter, the only one in Cambodia, was 
started in October 1995.
	Both the international organization and the local club donate 
money to several causes, including scholarships, cultural exchanges 
and medical programs. Club member Hans Beckers said Rotary has 
helped several humanitarian programs in Cambodia, including efforts 
to eradicate polio and provide eyeglasses and eye surgery to those in 
need.
	³One of the slogans of the club is service above self,² he said.
	The club is sending young Cambodians from a local agricultural 
school to Australia for two years, and it has given money to help 
wounded soldiers. The donation to the soldiers was made at the 
request of King Norodom Sihanouk.
	The money donated to the mosquito net campaign came from 
the clubıs Sunshine Fund,  collected from local members.
	Refugees who fled the factional fighting in Cambodia last year 
have been returning from camps in Thailand through repatriation 
centers in Sisophon in Banteay Meanchey province. National Malaria 
Center staff have distributed 600 mosquito nets bought with funds 
from the Cambodia Daily campaign to those returnees over the past 
five months.
	Many of the newly repatriated Cambodians move on to villages 
in forested and mountainous regions that have drug-resistant 
strains of malaria.
	The Rotary donation will pay for 595 nets that will help 
protect 1,785 people against malaria. The National Malaria Center 
intends to distribute the nets next month.