The International Committee of Jackson Hole Rotary Club has found its stride. Active projects include a Global Grant (part of the funding comes from The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International) project with District 4470 in Brazil. The project brings together about 10 Rotary Clubs to purchase an operating table and surgical lights for a hospital in Aracatuba, Brazil. Our club will donate $1,000 plus another $2,000 from other sources here in Jackson. The total cost of the project is $43,000.
As an update on our clean water project in South Africa, the Jackson Hole Rotary Club has allocated $2,500 from the club's budget to support a personal effort by a Jacksonian to provide clean water to high school students in Grahamstown, South Africa. This is the second phase of a project by a person of action that provided clean water after the local public water supply failed. The International Committee is also studying the feasibility of a Global Grant project larger than $30,000 to expand the scope for clean water to other schools, orphanages and similar facilities.
The club is on the move.