Dear Presidents of the Hampton, Rothesay-Kings, Saint John and Sussex Rotary Clubs...
Gordon Dempsey has just informed me that your members have agreed to support the World Community Service project jointly sponsored by the Rotary Club of Fredericton Sunrise and Brits (D9250) to supply hearing aids, school supplies and teachers aids for handicapped children at the Genesis Centre near Brits. In this you will join the Rotary Clubs of Fredericton, Fredericton Sunrise and Sackville to provide the financing for this project which will, after addition of DDF from our district and matching funds from the Rotary Foundation, be a total of US$27,700.
Please pass on to your members my very, and those of the Rotary Club of Brits, grateful thanks for their support of this project and the children in the schools for handicapped children. I have had the pleasure of visiting the Genesis Centre and I can assure you that were it not for the school these children would have very little contact with anyone outside their families. With the gift of hearing they will now be able to experience a much greater world and, hopefully, learn to communicate with their parents, siblings, teachers and other children. The additional teaching materials and teachers aids will increase their abilities and quality of life.
We will now start the process to put together the matching grant application.
As I have indicated, your contribution will be credited to your club for Foundation Recognition points which can be used for Paul Harris Recognition if you so wish.
Mike Ross of the Fredericton Sunrise Club will be the International Contact for this project and will keep you informed at every step as to progress on the project so that you can communicate with your members.
I am attaching a photo of some of the children at the Genesis Centre who, already, want to say “Thank You” for your love and support.
In Rotary,
Rotarian Mike Street
District 7810 Chairperson International Projects