International Service
Serving the World Community
Some things we have done
- March 2008 – donated $5,000 in partnership with Toronto area Rotary Clubs to purchase a vehicle for Dignitas International, which will facilitate decentralization of ARV distribution in Malawi.
- Support to the Uxbridge Doctors contingent to supply medical help in Ghana.
- Ongoing financial assistance to Rotary Foundation (Canada) for Polio Plus, a project to eliminate polio from the world.
- Donation through Rotary Foundation (Canada) to provide aid following the 26 December 2004 tsunami.
- Ongoing support of medical supplies to areas in great need.
- Provided 1500 school desks for Cost Rica in partnership with the Rotary Club of Rohrmoser.
- Donation of a $15,000 tympanometer machine to hospital in South Africa.
- Donated Medical equipment to an impoverished city in Argentina.
- $5,000 to a Nepal village for water improvement projects.
International Projects
With our first major project in 1998 we provided fresh water to a village in Nepal through donations and matching grants totalling over $25,000. We have provided desks to a school in Costa Rica, medical supplies to Cuba, and $10,000 for a hospital in South Africa to test children’s hearing, a step towards diagnosing tuberculosis. We have provided funding to support our local health care workers’ missions to Ghana, and to assist with the recent shipment of donated goods from Uxbridge to Afghanistan.
We continue to pursue our club’s 2012 Vision to support Africycle, AIDS and water projects in Africa, with a focus on Zomba, Malawi. We have partnered with Africycle, a community based bicycle sales/repair service, shipping bicycles to Zomba to provide much needed transportation. We support Dignitas International, an organization that has dramatically increased access to effective HIV/AIDS-related prevention, treatment, care and support in resource-limited settings through developing and sharing community-based solutions. In the past two years, through Africycle we have purchased and donated 70 bicycles to Dignitas to provide transportation for health care workers. We partnered with other Rotary Clubs to purchase a vehicle for Dignitas for ARV distribution.
Vehicle for Dignitas 2009
Last year our incoming President, Chuck Taylor, joined the District 7070 Sweat Equity trip to Zomba, where the vehicle was presented.
Each year we purchase a ShelterBox, which provides emergency shelter, clean water and supplies for 10 people. These boxes are sent to disaster areas around the world, wherever they are most needed. This year we purchased two ShelterBoxes – one sent to flooded areas in Niger, and we have recently purchased a box to be sent to Haiti.
Tent Village in Haiti Feb 2010
Our club has also committed to providing additional funding towards longer-term initiatives to help Haiti rebuild.
We provide annual funding to PolioPlus, a Rotary International project to eliminate polio from the world. Since 1985, the number of polio cases worldwide has declined by more than 99%. Read how Rotary has raised $107 million towards the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $355 million challenge.
Following the tsunami disaster of December 2004, the club donated to the Solidarity in South Asia Fund providing aid to victims of the tsunami.
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