Recent and Current Club Projects

Posted by Albert Daniels 
 

There are 3 Rotary Clubs in Saint Lucia the Rotary Club of Saint Lucia, the Rotary Club of Saint Lucia South and the Rotary Club of Gros Islet.

Some of our recent projects were:

  • Assistance to victims of Hurricane Tomas. We erected app. 100 temporary shelters and distributed “Aqua Boxes”, water filters.
  • Assistance for Haiti Earthquake victims, this continues.
  • Donation of  a Mobile Blood bank, the 2 unit.
  • Donation of a vehicle for the Salvation Army
  • Provison of a classroom at the school of the deaf
  • Nationwide wheelchair distributiuon (hundreds andmore than once)
  • Schools text book program
  • Construction of a new maternity ward at St. Jude’s Hospital
  • Ambulance for the Saint Lucia Red Cross
  • Provision of a car for Cornerstone Home

Current and ongoing projects:

  • Provison of a Mobile Youth Counceling Clinic to be operated by the Planned Parenthood
  • Organisation, NSDC, RISE Saint Lucia Ltd.. Belfund and the Ministry of Health
  • First Move Chess in Primary Schools starting in September 2012
  • Tree planting in cooperation with ARC in Dennery
  • Worldwide environmental projects in cooperation with World ARC in South Africa, Bali, Australia,  Brazil etc.
  • Joint EC$ 500,000.00 Water Project in Babonneau
  • Joint Annual Rotary Camp d-life for diabetic youth
  • Fruit tree planting in all schools and health centres island wide scheduled for June 2013
  • Operation of Rotary food bank for app. 40 households
  • Annual feeding of homes persons
  • Christmas hamper distribution to app 50 - 75 households
  • Rotary Calabashers charity concerts and donations
  • Rotary International Group Study Exchange
  • Sponsorship of Rotaract and Interact youth organizations
  • Annual “Easter Anti Drug Camp” for youth at risk
  • SALCC Technical and Vocational Awards of Excellence
  • Community vocational Award to 1-3 Saint Lucians
  • Contributions to “End Polio Now” through the Rotary Foundation
  • Maintenance of Four way Test Signs in schools islandwide
  • Vocational talks in Secondary Schools
  • Doctors in Action
  • School feeding at La Croix Maingot Primary School
  • Annual visit and lunch with the 100 students at Dunnottar school
  • Donation of sporting supplies and a lap top to the Babonneau Secondary School