Another year of Christmas Bags from the Rotary Club of Keilor
As Christmas approaches, our Club is again busily preparing for its annual Christmas Bag project.
For more than 20 years this project has seen 100 gift bags distributed annually by Bolton Clarke Community Nurses to their most isolated, restricted and loneliest patients in the Moonee Valley and Brimbank local Government areas.
Often recipients of our Christmas Bags don’t have a network of family, friends or community, and our aim is to offer them some small measure of comfort and joy at Christmas time. We always look to have our bags contain basic food supplies, toiletry and personal care items, as well as some seasonal “goodies” that, together, go some way to providing meaningful support and an uplift in spirit. That support and uplift in spirit is always visibly demonstrated in the reports we receive from Bolton Clarke each year.
The project depends heavily on our fundraising, our supporters providing us with monetary donations and/or with product supplies with which to fill the bags.
In a whole of Club effort, we will be packing the Christmas Bags in early December, with the Community Nurses delivering them in their pre-Christmas patient visits.
For this year we are very pleased to have the support of a district grant from The Rotary Foundation.