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Projects: Featured Projects
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Mugonero Hospital in Rwanda |
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Rwanda is a small country by Africa standards, but the most densely
populated country on the continent. In addition to the effects of
genocide in 1994, it faces inadequate food supplies, health issues and
lack of clean water. Mugonero is 100 kilometres southwest of
Kigali, the capital of Rwanda and is the site of a Rotary Matching
grant sponsored by the Rotary Club of Boulder and supported by the
Boulder Flatirons Club and the Space Center Club in Texas.
Working with Engineers Without Borders, the grant provided a solar
electric collector and rainwater catchment system for potable water at
Mugonero Hospital.
Building on their previous success, the
Boulder Rotary is again working with Engineers Without Borders, Boulder
Flatirons and Space Center Rotaries to request another Rotary
Grant. This grant will provide rainwater containment and water
treatment systems for two schools in the area, again using solar
collectors to supply energy for the project.
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Zimbabwe Youth Friendly Corner |
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Zimbabwe, historically
the breadbasket of Africa, has been ravaged by AIDS and the raging
inflation that has destroyed so much of the fiber of daily life. But
life does go on, and Rotarians continue to survive and support
themselves and their community.
District 5450 has
sponsored Rotary projects in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, since
2005. These projects focus on training and community mobilization, with
a common thread of training in ways to prevent and cope with AIDS. Each
program has been developed with the input of the community who, at the
conclusion of the training program, helps create a long-range plan,
identifying community needs and ways in which the community itself can
address these needs.
The most recent Rotary
Matching Grant funds a $30,000 project that involves the creation of
Youth Friendly Corners in which young people are trained in prevention
of and coping with AIDS, business skills and computer skills. 29 youths
were trained in the first session and are now running a Center where
young people can learn about AIDS and other preventable diseases, get
peer counseling and have access to a computer and the Internet. Four
more centers will be funded by the grant by the end of 2008.
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Crutches4Africa |
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Crutches4Africa
was
founded by Dave Talbot, a member of Mountain Hills Rotary and a polio
survivor. While in Africa filming a
documentary, David saw many a people with limited mobility. In particular, a woman, her right leg
corkscrewed behind her with her foot touching the back of her
shoulder.
She was using a tree branch as a crutch...
Working with
several rotary clubs, David has been collecting surplus crutches,
canes,
walkers and wheelchairs and delivers them to Africa for distribution to
those
in need. He has organized collection drives in businesses,
schools,
worship centers and at events, any place people get together.
Collection
efforts currently are in eight states in the U.S., from Florida to
California,
working with Rotary clubs, churches, schools, and other service
organizations.
The
crutches and
other equipment is sent to Africa and distributed with no bias as to race, tribe, political party, gender, age
or religion. If someone needs
them, he or she gets them, for free. Crutches have
already been sent to Kenya, Uganda and Sierra Leone.
The next country targeted is Nigeria.
The goal is to
send one million crutches to Africa
within ten years—a goal that will certainly be met with the
support of Rotarians
around the world.
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