Placerville Rotary eClub

By Michelle Flood, Democrat staff writer
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:05 AM PDT

PLACERVILLE ROTARIANS Courtney Mattson and Ed Kronk demonstrate a Fijian kava ceremony at the July Placerville Rotary Club meeting. See story “Rotarians ...” Courtesy photo

The Placerville Rotary Club recently reached out across the Pacific Ocean and helped build a home for a man who was left partially paralyzed in a fall while picking fruit.

The club had received a request from Jeff Mather the president of the Savusavu Rotary Club in Fiji. Mather is an American who settled in Fiji. He had contacted the Placerville club because members Mark and Alison Payne, of Shingle Springs, travel frequently to Fiji and have attended Rotary meetings while there.

Touched by his story the Placerville Rotarians chose to help the man. According to Payne the man, Jone (pronounced John), was in his mid-30s and had a wife and two small children. The chief of the district that Jone lived in approached the Savusavu Rotary for help.

Jone's story

Jone had broken his back in the fall and was left a paraplegic. Jone and his family lived in a small hut with a dirt floor with no plumbing. The outhouse was located 50 yards away from his hut and everyday he was forced to struggle to get to his walker and then struggle the 50 yards to the outhouse.

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Full Catalog of Pictures of Placerville Rotary Club's Trip to Fiji to complete our International Service Project.

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Many Placerville Rotarians traveled to Fiji to help with the service project. Incomming President Mannie presents the final check to Savusavu Rotary president Jeff during the lunch meeting at the Hot Springs Hotel in Savusavu Fiji.

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Placerville Rotarians go to Fiji to complete the Service Project.

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Placerville Rotary Club
President Bill Schmidt

Ref: Jone Tugiri Rotary House

Bula Bill,

Greetings to all members of the Placerville Rotary Club from your fellow Rotarians in Savusavu Fiji. We are all looking forward very much to your upcoming visit and hope that your journey will be safe and enjoyable. For those will who not be at making the journey to Fiji, I certainly hope that at some point we can meet at a club meeting in your community.

I am writing to report to you on the final status and accounting of the Jone Tugiri Rotary House Project. I am pleased to report that the house is essentially complete and Jone and his family are moved in and enjoying their new living space. You cannot imagine the improvement this house has made in their living standards, general health and security. Since Jone’s near brush with death earlier this year and his return from hospital, he is now has easy access to running water, proper showers, and most importantly a flush toilet all within the confines of a strong and sturdy house. This has made a tremendous improvement in his physical health as well as his mental state.

In just the last two weeks I've completed modifications to the water supply which improved the water pressure delivered to the settlement from only 2 psi to over 20 psi. This minor modification will not only improve Jone and Vika’s living standards but those others in the settlement as well.

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Jone was recently whisked away to the main island hospital by the President of the Savusavu Rotary Club Jeff Mather. He had an infection penetrating into his pelvic bone and has spent 24 days in the hospital trying to restore his kidneys back to normal and stop Sepsis from ending his life.

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Bula,

I am sending some photo's of the house being built for Jone's Family. As you know Jone, a young Fijian man in his 30's, was paralyzed when he fell out of a tree while picking fruit for his wife and 2 young children. The village chief came to the Rotary club in Savusavu asking for help for this man and his family. Jone and his family live in a one room hut with dirt floor, no running water or bathroom. The bathroom facilities are located far from their small ramshackle hut and it is difficult for Jone to get to these facilities during the night and during storms do to his condition. The Rotary club in Savusavu, on the island of Vanua Levu, made building a home for this family their number one priority and project and, were willing to commit all their funds (which was not enough) When we contacted them about what we could help them with, they suggested the building of a home for Jone and his young family. 

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