Foundation Thoughts, Part Three

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This week’s “Rotary Foundation Thought”

May  12, 2014Image

………………………is about the District Simplified Grants.

A dictionary may not be your first choice for an exciting read, but for many students, it’s the key to unlocking a world of amazing information. Using District Simplified Grants, Rotary clubs in Southwest Florida, USA, distributed dictionaries to every third grader in District 6960. Clubs worldwide use these grants to support short-term humanitarian projects in their communities.    One club, one grant, one Rotarian can bring wonder to the eyes of a child.


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This week’s “Rotary Foundation Thought”

May  26, 2014

……………………Image…is about Polio.

The goal of polio eradication remains elusive, with four countries still polio-endemic. In recent years, some in the scientific community have raised a difficult question: Can the world eradicate polio, or should we try to contain it?   According to an article by Harvard researchers, controlling the disease would be far more costly than eradicating it. The developing world can save more than $1 billion a year by eradicating, while switching to a control strategy would condemn 10 million children to polio over the next 40 years alone.    We must not lose sight of our vision of a world without polio.  We must finish our work and hold true to our promise to the children of the world.


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This week’s “Rotary Foundation Thought”

June  2, 2014

Image………………………is about sponsoring Ambassadorial Scholars.

I am confident that I am demonstrating a commitment to Rotary ideals-furthering peace and cultural tolerance- through the work that I produce.”     Alissa Nicole Creamer 

As a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar Alissa Nicole Creamer got a close- up look at how people recover from the ravages of war.  While studying documentary filmmaking in Spain she participated in a project supported by 60 Spanish Rotary Clubs to fund rehabilitation of child victims of land mine explosions.  Nearly every day for three months Creamer visited with two Angolan children at a local hospital.  She got to know their life stories and now she is telling their story to the world through a documentary film she is directing.

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This week’s “Rotary Foundation Thought”

June  9, 2014

………………Image………is about Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grants.

It is called the Paul Harris Memorial Road, a half mile long concrete walkway which helps the villagers of Nabapally, India keep from being isolated during the rainy season.  It is also one of the many infrastructure projects supported by a Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grant that has brought prosperity to a rural corner of India. Sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Calcutta Metropolitan, India and Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada the grant has supported schools, micro credit loans, wells, toilets, and a health clinic for several communities.    The road is not just a way out of isolation it is a road to a brighter future – thanks to Rotary.


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