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WDC International Projects

Americas. WDC International Projects. Where are we?. Africa. Asia. Touch the Rotary buttons for more information. Main Page. Jamaica. Haiti. Main Page. Americas Page. Grate Patrol. Purpose: To provide a van for use by the Salvation Army. Where: Washington, DC

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WDC International Projects

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  1. Americas WDC International Projects Where are we? Africa Asia Touch the Rotary buttons for more information

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  3. Main Page Americas Page Grate Patrol Purpose: To provide a van for use by the Salvation Army. Where: Washington, DC Rationale: The Grate Patrol Homeless Outreach Program brings an evening meal, fellowship and the opportunity for professional help to the homeless on the streets of Washington, DC. The program is currently serving more than 3000 homeless each month. Cost: 19,000 Funds Contributions: Rotary Clubs from Germany, Korea and Dubai participated in providing the necessary funds for the purchase of a new van.

  4. Main Page Americas Page Gente Joven Project: Purpose: To encourage responsible family planning decisions and to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) Where: Tlalnepantla, Mexico. Rationale: There are approximately 1 million inhabitants living in this area; more than 50% of the population live in extreme poverty. Most of the rural communities in Tlalnepantla lack sewage, clean water, and adequate sanitation. In rural areas of Tlalnepantla adolescent women give birth to an average of 4 children. The establishment of a Gente Joven center will make much needed The project will aim to prevent the main causes of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases among young people by establishing a youth clinic that will: Provide timely information and education about family planning and STD/HIV/AIDS prevention. Increase user-friendly reproductive health services for the youth. Help the adult population to understand and deal with juvenile sexuality. Deliver medical services for improving youth and adolescent community health. Cost $148,000. Mexfam: $60,000. Rotary Club of Washington, DC: 4,000 District 7620: 4,000 Population Institute : 4,000 Rotary International: 8,000, The remaining $66,000 needed for the project will be raised by creative fundraising.

  5. Main Page Americas Page Portland Project Purpose: To provide laundry equipment to an infirmary Where: Port Antonio, Jamaica Rationale: Portland Infirmary serves 250 aged patients. Staff was doing laundry by hand using only cold running water. To provide better hygiene standards, laundry equipment and a hot water system were necessary. Cost: 13,000 Funds Contributions: Matching Grant with participation of DC Rotary Club and Port Antonio's club as host.

  6. Main Page Americas Page Burned Children Project Purpose: To establish, equip and train staff at 4 burned children treatment centers. Where: Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Chile, El Salvador and Panama. Rationale: Coaniquem is a private non-profit institution founded in 1979. During all these years of work, we have assisted, totally free, in our rehabilitation centers, more than 65,000 children from Chile and the Americas. The objectives are: Integral rehabilitation of the burned child. Burns prevention. Professional training. The burns in the children require a long and expensive treatment. Until the child is fully grown, the scars threaten to contract and cause serious functional, aesthetic and psychological scarring. The purpose of the project is to create similar centers in other Latin American countries. Cost: 300,000 Funds Contributions: 3H Grant with participating Rotary Clubs of Santo Domingo, Panama City, San Salvador, Santa Cruz de la Sierra and Washington, DC

  7. Main Page Americas Page Port -au-Prince Project Purpose: To equip and furnish a prenatal and maternal clinic. Where: Port au Price, Haiti Rationale: Mercy and Sharing Foundation helps mothers before, during and after birth. The Foundation also supports three orphanages and six schools. The infants mortality rate caused by maternal complications is very high in Haiti. The need for adequate equipment at the maternal clinic could help provide better care to expectant mothers. Cost: 30,000 Funds Contributions: The matching grant was created by Rotary Clubs in DC and Port-au-Prince with contributions from various Colorado clubs and Rotary District offices in NY and DC.

  8. Americas Page Main Page Surgical Equipment for COANIQUEM Purpose: To provide surgical equipment to COANIQUEM Where: Chile Rationale: COANIQUEM, the Burned Children Foundation, was formed in Santiago in 1979. Its mission is to provide treatment, free of charge, to children from Latin American countries who have become who have become victims of severe burns. Some 70000 children are severely burned each year in Latin America, largely because of the widespread use of open fires for cooking and home heating. COANIQUEM treats about 9000 of these children every year, at facilities in Santiago and Antofagasta. The treatment is holistic, in that treatment is given for trauma and longer-term psychological difficulties. Tutors are provided so that the patients keep abreast of schooling, and lodging for one parent is provided. All of this is provided at no charge to the patient or family, the funds being derived from individual donors, corporate sponsorship [Exxon Mobil has been extremely generous for more than 25 years], and fund-raising events Cost: 14,042 Funds Distribution: Rotary Club of WDC: $3,000 Rotary District 7620: $3,000 Rotary Club of Santiago, Chile: $2,361 Matching funds requested of The Rotary Foundation: $5,681

  9. Main Page Americas Page Agua Plus II Purpose: To provide clean water for remote or disadvantaged communities Where: Argentina Rationale: The overall program is to provide clean water in remote communities, first in Argentina and then expanding throughout the Mercosur countries. The first step was completed in March 2002, through Rotary MG # 16791. This resulted in the deployment of some 30 filters in schools, hospitals, and community centers. A total of 310 filters is planned for installation. Whereas, the pilot program (MG #16791) relied on a filter manufacturer in the USA, the current program will use local suppliers, with the Eagle Springs filters Corporation license, which are now available to us. It has been the development of local supply sources that has enabled this 345-filter program to be accomplished at less than double the cost of the 30-filter program. The pilot program beneficiaries totaled about 1000 adults and 5000 children, the current program is expected to benefit more than ten times those numbers Cost: 35,000 Funds Contributions: Matching Grant with the participation of DC Rotary and ONCE and CASEROS Rotary Clubs in Argentina.

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  11. Main Page Africa's Page Bana-Ba Keleso HIV / AIDS Project Purpose: To equip and furnish a home for HIV/AIDS orphans Where: Molepolole, Botswana Rationale: The Bana Ba Keletso project helps over 400 AIDS orphans. They needed a large and well equipped kitchen to improve their existent facilities. Rotary Club in Gaborone, Botswana oversees the project which includes supplies for the kitchen and dinning hall. Cost: $ 24,000

  12. Africa's Page Main Page Bed Nets Purpose: To initiate a pilot project distributing bed nets to entire villages in afflicted areas. In particular, bed nets treated with insecticide that will kill approaching mosquitoes. Where: Malawi Rationale: Approximately 1,000,000 Africans, many of them children, are dying each year because of malaria. This is an emergency that cannot be ignored any longer by the rich world. One of the best ways to prevent the disease, and especially in the absence of a proven vaccine, is to provide bed nets. The need for bed nets at the macro level is estimated to be roughly 100,000,000 by Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University. Cost: The manufacture of insecticide-treated bed nets can range between $5-7 each. Pilot Project: $20,000

  13. Main Page Africa's Page Cura Homes Project Purpose: To provide small homes for orphans in addition to equipment, supplies, educational materials and furnishing for a planned community, initiated by the government in partnership with numerous Rotary clubs to reducing poverty. Where: Kenya Rationale: African countries are burdened with literally millions of children whose parents have died from the AIDS pandemic. To meet these challenges and driven by the need to create a sustainable improvement in the quality of life for the rural poor, the Rotary Club of Nairobi has established a partnership with Cura village, population of 6,000 in the Kiambu District, with the aim of generating new opportunities and addressing poverty. Rotary will be tackling such issues as education, health, infrastructure, employment, security and wealth creation. Cost: $ 30,000 Funds Contributions: DC Rotary Club, 10 Nairobi Rotary Clubs, some of Africa’s 15 districts, and with matching funds from Rotary International

  14. Main Page Africa's Page Tostan Project Purpose:To provide new sources of income for rural African women. Where: Senegal Rationale: For many years African women in rural areas have been practicing female genital cutting. The purpose of this project was to educate and sensitize them to end such practice and become productive through training in other activities. 70 sewing machines along with supplies and materials were donated and a training program started offering the following: 1) training in how to sew marketable projects, 2) training in how to repair and maintain the sewing machines, 3) training in how to create a profitable business and how to market products Cost: $ 30,000 Funds Contributions: Matching Grant between DC Rotary and the Dakar Millennium Rotary.

  15. http://www.raisingmoremoney.com/stories Main Page Africa's Page Books for Africa Project Purpose: To provide books for schools in Africa Where: Tanzania Rationale: The need for books in schools, colleges and universities in Africa is tremendous. The purpose of this project was to establish a relationship with the organization Books for Africa and help them with part of the expenses to purchase books for the numerous schools and libraries they serve. Cost: $ 500 Source:

  16. http://www.panos.co.uk/ Main Page Africa's Page HIV / AIDS Project Purpose:To help purchasing equipment for a "Drop in Centre" for orphan or vulnerable HIV/AIDS children. Where: South Africa Rationale: Eersterust, a town with a population of about 450000 people, has about 29.9 % of its population HIV infected. The non-profit organization, Circle of Life has dedicated its efforts to help reducing spread of HIV since 1999. The matching grant will help this organization purchase equipment for the center. Cost: $36,000 Funds Contributions: Matching Grant between DC Rotary and RC in Pretoria Hartfield.

  17. Africa's Page Main Page Ihe Project Purpose: To provide a commercial refrigerator to the Ihe Clinic Where: Nigeria Rationale: The Ihe clinic provides free medical services to disadvantaged population. They were in need of a commercial refrigerator to keep the medications they receive through donations from several sources. Cost: $ 2000

  18. http://aids-children.org/south_africa.htm Main Page Africa's Page Save the Children Project Purpose: To supply beds and coats for hospice community center. Where: Lesotho Rationale: One of the poorest and underdeveloped countries in the world is Lesotho. This poverty affects children's access to basic services and forces them to start working a very young age. Cost: $ 12,500

  19. http://www.ethiopia-nid.org/aids_orphanage.htm Africa's Page Main Page HIV/AIDS 3H Grant Purpose: To establish 6 diagnostic clinics. Where: Addis Ababa Rationale: A team led by the Columbia Patuxent Club of D7620 has established 6 diagnostic and counseling clinics in Addis Ababa, in partnership with the Addis Regional Health Ministry. These were developed through a Rotary Humanitarian Grant worth almost $300000, awarded in 2002. The fact that American Rotarians spent a week in Addis with Ethiopian Rotarians in 2001 was crucial in seeking and winning this hotly competed Grant. Those same Ethiopian Rotarians have established and managed the completion and operation of the clinics. Cost: $ 287,000

  20. Africa's Page Main Page BASRA Prostheses Project Purpose: To supply, distribute and fit prostheses to Iraqi children victims of war. Where: Amman, Jordan Rationale: Iraq is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. It is estimated that there are as many as 50,000 amputees in Iraq, many of them women and children. As a result of the ongoing war in Iraq, all in-country prostheses centers have ceased operations and care for these amputee victims is almost non existent. Rotary District 7620, in partnership with Physicians for Peace (PFP), Hanger Prosthetics and Orthodics, (Hanger) and the Amman, Jordan Cosmopolitan Rotary Club is working to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi amputee population, starting in the city of Basra. This project, entitled “The Basra, Iraq Prosthetics Project” is a Centennial Project of Rotary District 7620. Cost: $ 70,000 This cost will come from two sources, a District simplified grant and a Matching grant with DC Rotary and Montgomery Village Rotary Club.

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  22. Asia's Page Main Page Jaipur Project Purpose:. To help provide 1200 prosthetics/calipers and 300 pairs of crutches to a Mobility Camp sponsored by the Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust (RNCT). Where: Mumbay, India Rationale: Over the last 2 years RNCT has conducted several mobility camps for the rehabilitation of the handicapped in Gujarat. They were provided with wheelchairs, tricycles, crutches, walkers, blind sticks, artificial limbs and jaipur foot. Such camps have been organized at Surendranagar, Morbi, Radhanpur, Idar, Deesa, Shankeshwar, Sayla, and Vijapur, where more than 35,000 handicaps have benefited. The focus on all these camps has been on handicap children and youth. There is always for more crutches and prosthetics in order to increase the amount of people served by the mobility camps. Cost: $ 7,800 Funds Contributions: Matching Grant between DC Rotary Club and Bombay Hills South Rotary Club .

  23. Main Page Asia's Page Dictionary Project Purpose: To provide 2000 dictionaries to school children in Armenia. Where: Assyria, Armenia Rationale: The need for school books and dictionaries among school children in the Assyrian Community motivated the Armenia Rotary Club to seek help from other clubs, in order to provide dictionaries to the regions of Arzin, Quylasar, Dimitrou, Duvon/Dugon and Shahriyar. Participating clubs in this project were Central Valley Chapter Rotary Club, Granite Bay Rotary Club, Rotary Club of Giumri and Washington, DC Rotary Club. Local club's participation: $1300

  24. Asia's Page Main Page Blood Bank Project Purpose:.To provide furnishing and equipment for the Delhi Blood Bank Where: Garden City, New Delhi, India Rationale: The Blood Bank in Garden City is located in an impoverished area. They needed to add new equipment in order to better serve the community. The Garden City Rotary Club became our partner in this project. Cost: $12,000 .

  25. Main Page Asia's Page Freedom School Project Purpose:. To support a school for refugees with multimedia equipment. Where: Seoul, South Korea Rationale: Freedom School is an NGO providing education free of charge to refugee students ages 18 to early forties. The school needed a projector in order to provide services to a large population of recently arrived refugees. Cost: $ 3,000

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