Club Donates to Water Wells in Haiti

Roy Sheldrick from the Ancaster Rotary Club accepted a cheque for $1000 from International Services director Barbara Busing as the club's continuing effort to support the Water for Life project in the Artibonite Valley of Haiti. To date Roy has raised over $2.2 million and drilled 252 wells that are managed by local community committees that keep them running, even after 17 years. Our support will go towards his latest Rotary Foundation grant to build cisterns in 16 mountain villages that are not accessible by roads. The cisterns will store rain so that villagers will not need to walk 4 - 5 hours to get drinking water.