EL SALVADOR
Our Community Development/Shoreline Cleaning project in El Salvador in now entering its last year. The project began with fundraising by our club and a small district grant. Our on-the-ground partners were Rotario San Salvador Noroestre. With the success of that trial, a second and much more ambitious fundraising effort by our club began and a much larger grant was attained. The El Salvador Club has been much more experienced during this second phase and was able to leverage community and civic support leading to much more extensive shoreline cleaning than anticipated. The project has made an astonishing impact and will continue to do so in this final phase.
MEMBERSHIP: WE’RE DOING IT RIGHT
Rotary International President-Elect Holger Knaack isn’t setting a target for membership growth in the year ahead. He wants us to grow Rotary organically and sustainably using positive member experiences and on the basis of club vibrancy for current and new members. At the Arbutus Club we were already doing that before COVID intervened. We have continued with Zoom meetings, have a buddy system in place and are looking forward to more in-person meetings when we are given the go-ahead. In the meantime members can register for
Webinar #4 – 60 minutes
Thursday, May 7th, 7:00PM click here to register
Saturday, May 9th, 10:00AM click here to register
►Growing Rotary - Membership and Club Flexibility
►Rotary Citation for 2020-21
Thursday, May 7th, 7:00PM click here to register
Saturday, May 9th, 10:00AM click here to register
►Growing Rotary - Membership and Club Flexibility
►Rotary Citation for 2020-21
ROTARY’S EFFORTS TO END POLIO
BC Place Stadium, Telus Science World and Vancouver City Hall lit up their buildings during what was to be the District conference weekend. Gabor Gasztonyi, the organiser of the annual End Polio Walk along New Westminster’s Quay, in which our club would again have participated took some terrific photos.
HOOP-A-THON GOING AHEAD BY NOT GOING AHEAD
This fundraiser which supports student bursaries and training (this year across all of Vancouver, thanks to our Club lobbying for this change) has already raised $38,000 in spite of the inability of the event to take place at Strathcona School. This year, hoopers will shoot their hoops on camera in back yards and lanes and anywhere they can set up a hoop. Rotary Arbutus will once again interview for and select students for 5 bursaries of $1,000 each to contribute to this worthwhile event. Photos from last year can be seen here. Our Club was well represented by members and friends, including Vanessa, one of our speakers and a participant along with Moritz – both from Germany.
KENYA
Last year Rotary Arbutus joined the Yaletown Club again in supporting a water and sanitation project in Kenya. $1,225 of our Foundation donations went to this project. The other participants were the Rotary Club of Hurlingham, Nairobi and the Rotary Club of Vancouver.
February 2019: Construction begins - Nakurto Lukuny School, Suswa
March 2019: Construction continues
June 2019: Construction complete - 300,000 litre tank and harvesting roofing system
July 2019: Toilets for girls and boys completed
September 2019: Health and sanitation education and training
