President Brian thanking Paula for bringing a little Tanzania to Woodland.
Announcements:
January 19 Unveiling of new organ at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on the corner of 2nd and Lincoln in Woodland, 3:00pm
January 20 former President meeting to talk about a president elect nominee, talk to Lynette
January 25 Beamer Elementary PTA Pancake Breakfast, need volunteers, tell Brian you’d like to volunteer
January 25 District grant program, if you are thinking of applying for a grant someone from the club needs to attend
February 8 Black History and Multicultural Heritage Celebration at the Guinda Grange Hall- need volunteers to set up on Friday and work on Saturday 10:00am-3:00pm
May 2nd- Project Amigo’s fundraiser in San Francisco, talk to Cass
Updates:
1,442 soup 1238 socks donated by all the Rotary’s combined in this area
Thank you to Christy Hayes for hosting
Lunatic of the week:
Dexter- for the work he has done with the club and in the community
Program:
Paula and Dennis Lofstrom- International Health Partners (U.S. and IHP-JEMA-TZ)
International Health Partners is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to improve health care in Tanzania, one of Africa’s poorest countries. They have 2 hospitals and are currently working on building a third on 64 acres. There are 140 newborns that die on a daily basis.
They are fortunate to have one of the only digital x-ray and ultrasound machines which was a gift from Rotary International. Most people don’t realize how big Africa is, you can fit the United States in it three times. Tanzania is the size of CA, Nevada and Oregon combined. Thirty four percent of the children suffer from malnutrition and have iron deficient anemia. Higher education is offered to anyone who works for foundation, 96% of money donated goes directly to the non-profit.
How you can help: remember us in your prayers and help us to find venues to tell the story. Please visit: WWW.IHPTZ.ORG
Next meeting: January 21st