2013 was an exciting year for Interplast, as many of you will know we celebrated our 30th anniversary. One of the key achievements for the year was the undertaking and completion of Interplast’s first longitudinal impact evaluation study, looking at 30 years of Interplast activities in Fiji.
Rotary International President Elect (RIPE), Gary Huang and his wife, Corinna, visited the Interplast office recently to learn about our organisation.
Thanks to your support, we’ve continued to repair bodies and rebuild lives across the Asia Pacific region this year.
On Sunday 17 November, 2416 participants took to the stairwells of Melbourne’s iconic Eureka Tower to raise money for Interplast and Whitelion!
Interplast is so proud to welcome Turia Pitt as our official ambassador! Announced at the recent 30th anniversary celebrations in Sydney, Turia was introduced to Interplast by her burns surgeons, long-serving Interplast volunteers, Associate…
In partnership with Inspired Adventures, Interplast is officially launching the Laos Trek and Cycle fundraising challenge!
In 2012, Interplast volunteers met Andrew and his mother in Apia in Samoa. Having injured his ankle severely while playing outside a few months earlier, his wound became septic and an exposed bone in his left leg required plastic and reconstructive surgical intervention.
An Interplast team of five, comprising one plastic surgeon, two anaesthetists and two nurses, recently returned from the second of a three year funded program to the rural region of Phonsavan in the north east of Laos.
From 6 to 15 July 2013, Interplast contributed to a one-week training activity focusing specifically on hand surgery and rehabilitation in Colombo in Sri Lanka. Based principally at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka as well as at Ragama Rehabilitation…
The adventurous fundraising initiative, Miles for Smiles, is gearing up for its departure in February 2014. After a few pit stops, unforeseen postponements and some fine tuning of all the required nuts and bolts, Interplast fundraisers…
May and June have been very busy months for Interplast teams – with 4 surgical and training program activities taking place overseas during the period.
During the most recent Interplast program to Laos, the Interplast team had the pleasure of meeting the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Bob Carr, when he visited the Mahosot General Hospital in Vientiane.