SAUCON VALLEY ROTARY MYANMAR GRANT
At our meeting of May 24th, we had the pleasure of hearing from Saucon Valley Rotary members Linda Mayger and George Morrison about their District Grant experience to Myanmar and the Koe Na Win Monastery.
The Monastery, the focal point of the community, provides about 400+ middle and high school students with shelter and meals without charge. The Monastery has the only clean drinking water in a very desolate area. Every effort is made to be a self-sufficient operation.
Thus the Project Goal: lessons and materials to make natural soap for use and sale in the community. The students were very eager to learn the process and integrate the soap making into their daily routines. The educational benefits of the whole project certainly made the end results very worthwhile. There was an interesting blend of manual methods augmented by the use of electric drills for the mixing process.
Overall it was a very worthwhile project allowing these rotarians to bring the education and techniques and materials to an area which could capitalize on their use in their community. Linda and George had the opportunity to experience many cultural differences, not the least of which was being the first white people the students had ever seen. There may be a possibility to return to Myanmar in the future to pursue both educational and water accessibility projects.
Thank you to Linda and George for sharing their ‘soaps adventure.’
"MAD Day" Garden Planting!Special Thanks to those Morning Star Rotarians who helped the MAD garden planting event on Wednedsay May 23 at 6 PM at Hogar Crea. 1920 East Market Street, Bethlehem.
The success of this year's crops will be greatly appreciated and enjoyed by the folks at Hogar Crea. Thank you Ron Helmuth for spearheading the diggers!
EREY – Every Rotarian Every Year
If you have already donated to The Rotary Foundation since July 1, 2017, we thank you. If not, we would appreciate your consideration of donating to The Rotary Foundation within the next TWO weeks so Morning Star Rotary can achieve 100% participation for the fourth year in a row. Your support is vital to growing our Annual Fund and more that we can do in the world.
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Our speaker this Thursday, May 31, will be Francesca, our exchange student who will present her thoughts on her year in Bethlehem!
Hope to see you there!
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