The lack of access to clean water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene resources is one of the world’s biggest health problems – and one of the hardest to solve. Rotary has worked for decades to provide people with clean water by digging wells, laying pipes, providing filters, and installing sinks and toilets. But the biggest challenge has come after the hardware is installed. Too often, projects succeeded at first but eventually failed.
Rusted water pumps and dilapidated sanitation facilities are familiar sights in parts of Africa, South America, and South Asia – monuments to service projects that proved UNSUSTAINABLE.
That is why Rotary has shifted its focus over the past several years to emphasize education, collaboration and sustainability. Now TRF requires clubs and districts that apply for grants in other countries to show that local residents have developed a project plan that includes the above. In doing so, projects are successful.
Your contribution to TRF enables this to happen. Giving to the Foundation is easy – just go to rotary.org/donate, Thank you.