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By PRIP Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar - Foundation Trustee Chair
As February is World Understanding Month it could be a good time to
think of the international service provided by Rotarians, clubs, and
districts in light of the Future Vision pilot.
District 9800
(Australia) has allocated an amount of its district grant funds to
send a medical team to Timor-Leste to implement a training program
for midwives to help reduce the mortality rate of mothers and
infants during childbirth. The district has also budgeted an amount
to install a solar-powered water pump for a school and neighboring
community in Tanzania.
District
2070
(San Marino; Italy) is planning for a number
of large district grant activities, including sending medical
volunteers to humanitarian projects in Kosovo, Peru, and Madagascar,
medical equipment to Congo, and a vocational training team to
District 7490 (New Jersey, USA).
The
Rotary Club of San Ignacio, Belize
(District 4250), is host sponsor together with the international
sponsor
Rotary Club of South Cowichan (Mill Bay), B.C., Canada
(District 5020), on a project to construct an open drainage system
on the campus of Sacred Heart College (high school) in Belize to
prevent flooding of the school and the breeding of mosquitos that
transmit dengue fever. There is also being implemented a
multiplatform public health education campaign in cooperation with
school authorities, the municipality, and community leaders, which
will make the project sustainable.
There are several similarly good projects being implemented in many
places throughout the world, all leading up to
Building Communities --
Bridging Continents through Service Above Self. |
Promoting
world understanding through Future Vision