Sandra has been working on the Crown Currency Exchange Initiative with a quiet team from Rotary Melbourne.

Background:
In September 2018 Crown Currency Exchange (Greensborough) rang the RCM office enquiring about the collection of small foreign coins & notes. They mentioned that in the past someone from Rotary collected the currency to convert to AUD and donated towards Rotary Projects.  Jo Mavros and Chris Wang investigated further and created a small project to support our Centenary project - Rotary Give Every Child A Future.

We arranged with Crown Currency Exchange to collect all foreign currency notes and coins from their seven outlets in Melbourne.  The outlets are:

• Greensborough Plaza
• Northland Shopping Centre
• Knox Shopping Centre
• Chirnside Park Shopping Centre 
• Forest Hill Shopping Centre
• Parkmore Shopping Centre
• Watergardens Shopping Centre

At the outlets we have a Donation Box together with the one (1) page flyer describing the Project (see attached photo).
Once collected by our volunteer team of collectors:

• Sandra Hills
• Bernie McIntosh
• John Peberdy
• Darryl Hawkey
• Jo Mavros
• Chris Wang, we send to Change Global Exchange in Brisbane who convert to Australian Dollars less a commission and remit to the nominated RCM Account for Rotary Give Every Child A Future”. 

So far we have sent over 60 kgs of notes and coins this year!

The net proceeds for 2018-19 is approx. $2000.00!

PS: If members have foreign notes and coins after an overseas trip and have no need for it, we have a collection box by the Wine Raffle each week or hand to Jo Mavros when convenient.

Thank you to these Quiet Achievers in Rotary Melbourne.

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