While Kim has been involved in numerous local Rotary projects, her passion lies with Rotary International Service. Her first foray into humanitarian service on an international level led her to Chinandega, Nicaragua where she participated on five District 6400 teams working with the Children of the Dump by providing educational & health services to the people in abject poverty.

 

In 2012, Kim decided to venture further into the international service world by leading Rotary humanitarian teams of her own to Ghana, Africa. To date she has organized six missions that included 114 Rotarians and other volunteers. She has raised just over $1 million dollars and invested these funds in projects in all six Rotary priority areas.

 

To date Kim’s teams have constructed/renovated several schools. She has also provided school uniforms for the students and textbooks for all subjects for each of the schools she has built. Kim established a literacy project called “Pack for Success” which provides students with a new backpack filled with vital school supplies, toiletries, new clothing, and a toy.

 

Access to clean water is often scarce in Ghana. Kim has raised enough funds to bore drill 25 mechanized wells and three bore drilled hand pump wells providing thousands of villagers with clean water for drinking, cooking, and bathing. She has also constructed five sanitation facilities with flush toilets, sinks and showers further contributing to the health and well- being of those villages.

 

On the medical front, Kim and her husband Christos, a medical doctor, built a Baby Health Clinic and have provided thousands of malaria prevention mosquito bed nets for pregnant/ nursing mothers and their children. Thanks to a partnership with a local physiotherapist, Kim has collected and fitted hundreds of villagers with orthopedic braces, canes, crutches, walkers, and wheelchairs.

 

Kim has also organized pop-up eye glass clinics providing eye exams and reading glasses to thousands of villagers. Dentists who join her missions provide dental care to hundreds of patients suffering with cavities and abscesses. Kim has also established a layette program in Ghana and to date has distributed over 600 layettes to new mothers--mostly single teenage moms.

 

Kim established an economic development program she has called “Sewing Seeds of Hope” to provide teen moms, who often were forced to quit school, with the means of developing a skill set to earn a living. Armed with a new sewing machine and a marketable skillset these teenage mothers can provide themselves and their children with brighter futures. In