MERC is a sub-committee of the West Perth Rotary Club that collects and transports superseded medical equipment in good working order for use in developing countries, diverting these away from landfill. We help supply health clinics and hospitals predominately based in Asia/Pacific and Africa which provide health care to some of the poorest people in world.
The aim was to construct a well including a 2000 litre water storage tank with reverse osmosis filter system in the village of Plei Klau in Central Highlands Vietnam. The well is now complete.
Rotary International (RI) is the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide.The Rotary Club of West Perth (Inc.) is one of approximately 50 clubs in RI District 9455 – the largest in Australia – that encompasses most of Western Australia. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.