For a Rotary Club that doesn't very often do BBQs, our team excelled themselves last Sunday!
The big effort was in support of Ronald McDonald House Randwick's big fund raiser for the year -"Walk Me Home", when more than two thousand people walked the 25 km from Rose Bay via the very scenic Coastal Walk - Watsons Bay, Bondi Beach, Coogee, finally arriving at the Randwick House to be greeted by Rotarians handing them a sausage sandwich.
It was truly amazing to see how everyone just got stuck into the various roles - delivering supplies from the fridge, stacking bread and napkins, cutting sausages strings, cooking onion and sausages, refilling sauce bottles, serving, cleaning up, etc.
With the three BBQ's running flat-out, the hungry walkers didn't have to wait long to pick up their reward after their 25km walk from Rose Bay.
The Botany Randwick Rotary Club has a long association with Ronald McDonald House and has been sponsoring a Family Room for many years.
The House provides vital, and free, accommodation for the families of children from Regional NSW whilst their children are undergoing treatment at the nearby Sydney Children's Hospital. Without this facility, these families would be left in desperate circumstances at a time when there is already a lot of trauma in their lives.
Our support of the House is reciprocated, with the House also accommodating children from the Pacific islands who come to the Hospital for treatment under Rotary Australia's ROMAC Program https://www.romac.life/.
It was also great to see our ROMAC Child, 2-year-old Tom, and his Mum Marie come down to say hullo. They are staying at the House whilst Tom undergoes treatment for his club feet at the Sydney Children's Hospital. ROMAC District 9675 Chair Jenny Pedley also popped in to say whilst she was visiting them.
The Board and staff of Ronald McDonald House have expressed a very big thank-you to all involved - it was a very successful day for them.