See below for the latest email from Alex Twells:
After just one week, you have made an tremendous impact for those fleeing the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. In just seven days, Rotarians, Rotaractors, friends and clubs in District 7810 and 7820 have raised over $116,000 CAD for the Rotary Foundation’s Disaster Response Fund.
While we continue to raise the goal, the reality is that the need is great and will be ongoing. Please continue to share this appeal within your networks to keep our impact growing.
- Give directly through our special online giving page (https://raise.rotary.org/
Ukraine-Crisis-Relief/ fundraiser2) - If your club would like to make a contribution, have one of your club executives (president, secretary, treasurer) log in to www.rotary.org/donate and give on behalf of the club. Then contact Jillian Gibson (jillian.gibson@outlook.com) to have it recorded through our online fundraising tally.
We have seen some creative ways to increase the support for this fund. One Rotarian’s sister has been making surgical caps with the colours of the Ukraine flag and selling them to physicians and other healthcare workers. Another Rotarian donated the proceeds from a March Madness basketball bracket. Many clubs have donated from their international budget or from other sources. We have until April 30th for this particular appeal – let’s see how much impact we can have.
We also are aware that we may soon be in the position, as Rotarians, to play a role in receiving Ukrainian refugees in our region. We may be able to apply for funding from this same Disaster Response Fund to assist with refugees as they come here. As information becomes available for applying for this funding we will keep the communication open.
Thank you for seeing a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change.