Rotary Clubs Strengthen Communities and Improve Lives.
EVANSTON, IL (August 10, 2017) — As part of Rotary’s year-long centennial celebration of The Rotary Foundation – the global membership organization’s charitable arm, Rotary clubs raised $304 million to support positive, lasting change in communities around the world.
Since its inception in 1917 with its first donation of $26.50, The Rotary Foundation is today a leading humanitarian foundation that has spent nearly $4 billion to help countless people live better. Each year, The Rotary Foundation provides more than $200 million to end polio and support sustainable projects and scholarships that promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water, support education, save mothers and children, and grow local economies
Rotary’s top humanitarian goal is to eradicate the paralyzing disease, polio. Rotary launched its polio immunization program PolioPlus in 1985, and in 1988 became a spearheading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Since the initiative launched, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99.9 percent, from about 350,000 cases a year to 37 confirmed in 2016. Rotary has contributed more than US $1.7 billion and countless volunteer hours to immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries.
“When we say that our Rotary Foundation is saving and transforming lives, we are not exaggerating,” said Kalyan Banerjee, Trustee Chair, The Rotary Foundation – 2016-17. “With the continued strong support of our members, we will keep our promise of a polio-free world for all children, and enable the Foundation to carry out its mission of advancing world understanding, goodwill and peace. We look forward to another 100 years of Rotary members taking action to make communities better around the world.”
Eleven Indianola high school students attended an Interact meeting with Dave and their HS Counselor Jori Coughlin on Monday August 14th.
One comment heard during the discussion included: "I want to help our community". The desire to improve our community is very strong in these future community leaders.
Expect to hear more about their efforts as school gets underway.
Greetings to Indianola Rotary Club (attention Mr. President).
I’m writing on behalf of Rotary Club of Same (I’m in the Board of Directors in this club and our new president is AMON NOEL WILLIAM, who is also an Assistant Governor) mostly to thank you for the support you provided to our First Global Grant Water Project at Kigogo. As you may recall, we identified 7 water project sites and 2 projects are already done (Kigogo and Masandare Water Projects). We are now ready to start the 3rd project at Mhezi (this is gravity water project).
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Eli.
Elibariki Kisimbo,
Director of Development,
Empower Tanzania Inc,
P.o.Box 444,
Same-Kilimanjaro,
Mobile Phone +255784 848824/+255754 848824
Rotary Grants Team to Visit Tanzania Water Project
Dear Global Grants Partners (GG1414552 Kigogo & GG1532740 Masandare)
Our Rotary Global Grants Team is pleased that the Rotary Foundation has judged our Tanzania Village Water System grants as “creative and successful” and worthy of site visits. Below is the letter we and the Rotary Club of Same received this week from the Rotary Manager of Research and Evaluation at the Foundation.
A special “Thank You” for being a partner in helping make this special recognition possible.
Gerald
Rotary Club of Ames Global Grants Chair
Forwarded Message
Dear Rotarians William, Bahemuku, and Sevde:
Greetings from Evanston!
It is a pleasure to introduce myself as Rotary’s Manager of Research and Evaluation. I help arrange reviews and evaluations of TRF projects, and I look forward to working with you.
Your projects, GG1414552 & GG1532740, have been selected to receive site visits to help Rotary better understand the successes and challenges of global grants around the world. This research will look at the practices and strategies used by Rotary clubs to create and successfully implement large scale projects, such as what has been done in the Same district of Tanzania.
Shelley Martin, a member of Datu Research’s research staff, will visit the project site for approximately four days to review the projects’ implementation, and interview project sponsors, cooperating organizations, and community members.
We would like to schedule the visit for 5-8 September 2017. Please let me know by 3 August 2017 if there are any circumstances that would prohibit a site visit during this time frame.
We would appreciate your assistance contacting the District Water Engineer, and to coordinate the dates, times and room locations for the interviews. If you recommend that we have an interpreter onsite, please assist us in coordinating this service as well.
Please review the attached documents for further information.
As always, please do not hesitate to contact me with questions or concerns. We look forward to your support!
Best regards,
Hilary Leav
Manager, Research and Evaluation | Strategy, Research, and Evaluation
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