Janette Etherington: Interplast - repairing bodies and rebuilding lives
Interplast sends teams of volunteer plastic and reconstructive surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and allied health professionals to provide life-changing surgery and medical training in seventeen developing nations in the Asia-Pacific region. Work is undertaken in partnership with local organisations, including hospitals and universities.
Rotary co-founded Interplast in 1983. Rotary Clubs and Rotarians across Australia and New Zealand remain invaluable partners in Interplast’s mission to "repair bodies and rebuild lives".
Janette Etherington is the Interplast Rotarian Engagement Coordinator. She describes her role as her "dream job". She has an absolute passion for the work that Interplast does, and the difference it makes to so many people’s lives.
Janette has been a Rotarian for nearly 10 years. She is a member and Past President of the Rotary Club of Nunawading, in District 9810. In Janette's previous work lives she has held a number of senior management positions in retail, bookselling and the apprenticeship sector, working in both the commercial and not-for-profit worlds.