Dear Fellow Rotarians,
The Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Sunrise has been overwhelmingly generous to the needs of the poor in Cambodia and Malawi this year. This letter is to acknowledge the two grants totalling $4,000 USD, which will be divided to support family latrine construction in Cambodia and famine response in several communities in the central Malawi region of Chilowamatambe. As our U.S. tax authorities require, let me state that no gifts or services have been provided by SWI in return for your club’s amazing gift.
The Cambodia funds will be used to respond to requests for additional family latrines in the communities where Rotary funded water and sanitation projects have taken place over the last 5 years. Family latrines were provided to the poorest families in some of these communities. The families themselevs provided labor for installing septic tanks and constructed the enclosure. An outgrowth of these efforts has been requests from village leaders for help with additional family latrines. This is of course a happy situation, because of the strong contribution these latrines make to community public health.
The Rotary International Foundation and generous Rotary clubs like yours have also supported the improvement of community water sources in some 20 villages in central Malawi. Early this year, it became apparent that families on some of these villages had run out of food and were in danger of starvation. This because of the poor rains during the earlier planting season.
Another bad planting season occurred late last year, and predictions are that food shortages will be yet more severe in the winter and spring of 2017. The strategy that you are helping with is to purchase maize (corn) during the current April-May harvest when prices are at the lowest. The maize will be securely stored and distributed over a 4 month period beginning next December.
I will be sure to keep you and our club members informed of progress on both efforts.
Sincerely,
Larry Siegel
Safe Water International
Carpinteria, California USA
Malawi
2016 Food Recipient with Severe Leg Infection
Stroke Victim Mother and Her Daughter Were 2016 Food Recipients. Project Manager for Rotary Water Projects, Patrick Chimphamba, Is Sitting on Left
Cambodia
IDE family latrine provided to poor families in Rotary water project villages. Families dig holes for septic tanks and build enclosure. Rotary funds provide cement rings and latrine base.
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Make-ups: In addition to make-up opportunities at Rotary Sunrise, you can make up absences at another Club in Grand Cayman. The meeting times and places for the other Clubs are: