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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.
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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:
Rotary Club of Washington, DC:
District 7620:
Population Institute :
Rotary International:
The remaining $66,000 needed for the project
will be raised by creative fundraising.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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:
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$5,681
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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
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Funds Contributions: Matching Grant with the participation of DC Rotary
and ONCE and CASEROS Rotary Clubs in Argentina.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
http://www.panos.co.uk/
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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
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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
http://aids-children.org/south_africa.htm
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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