Posted by Rick Rogers on Oct 06, 2017
District 7810 and 7820 News about Foundation
 
Hello, everyone! I am enclosing a couple of the wonderful things that our districts do with money that is donated to the Rotary Foundation. It will give you examples of what we are doing to do good in the world and about some of the things that clubs do in their own communities. These examples are the result of member donations to the Rotary Foundation and how the funds were used.
 
PDG Rick Rogers
ARRFC Zone 24 East
 
 
A district grant made possible by donations made to TRF by clubs and members of District 7810 
 
District grant to the Rotary Club of Grand Manan Island
The most recent Foundation project with the Rotary Club of Grand Manan Island was with the Grand Manan Island Museum. Two years ago, the museum board hired Island artist Sara Griffin to produce an eighteen-foot-high and thirty-foot-long educational mural of the ecological tidal zones of Grand Manan. There are scenes of the shore line, sea birds local to the Bay of Fundy, as well as many examples of fish and mammals in the Bay.
 
The Rotary Foundation and Rotary Club grant allowed the museum to create several educational booklets explaining to the public each species represented in the mural, representing hundreds of birds, fish, animals, plants, and underwater vegetation. This is a good example of how a District Grant could be used for education in your own community. Doing good in your own part of the world!!
 
World grant for the children's orphanage in Eden, Zimbabwe
This grant was made possible from contributions from several Rotary clubs in District 7810 and the District DDF funds. All of these funds were matched with funds from the Rotary Foundation. The funds from the Rotary Foundation were the funds that our members and clubs had donated previously to our charity, The Rotary Foundation, known as TRF.
 
Zimbabwe is a small country in Africa that is very poor and has a great many orphans to care for. They live in an area several kilometers from the capital of Harrie. This orphanage has been in existence for approximately 16 years and is self-sufficient, but the equipment is old and worn out and in need of replacement. They have been receiving more orphans on a regular basis and the resources and the ability to maintain them was presenting a challenge. Equipment breakdown, destruction of crops by pests, and the inability to irrigate when needed were a big problem for the village. They had a lake in the area that could be used for irrigation in the dry seasons but were not able to capitalize on this resource.
 
The world grant was for a tractor to replace the worn out one they had, a truck to transport supplies to the village (previously cost $500 per round trip), and irrigation equipment to ensure crops could be raised even in the dry season. All of this helped the residents but also helped other people in the surrounding area who depend a great deal on the farm. This was a wonderful example of doing good in the world, made possible by the generous donations of Rotary members and their clubs.

I hope you enjoyed the description of a couple of grants in District 7810 and I hope that folks in District 7820 will send me some of their grant stories. I would like to showcase articles about both districts and their World and Districts grants each month going forward. Please include some pictures.
 
 
Send me your proud moments with these grants so we can share with everyone all the good that we have done in the world and in our own area.
 
PDG Rick Rogers
ARRFC Zone 24 East