
Enter Dr. Fitzgerald who leads UNR graduate students to Kenya to work on water projects. She was looking for sponsors and Quincy Rotary was interested, seeking a meaningful international project to satisfy one of the 7 areas of focus of Rotary International. Those areas are promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, saving mothers and children, supporting education, growing local economies, and protecting the environment. Dr. Fitzgerald’s project fit the bill.
Now, these wells free Kenyan girls from the burden of foraging for firewood and hauling water for miles, allowing them time to spend in a classroom, becoming educated alongside boys. Dr. Fitzgerald was able to convince village elders that if additional classrooms are built and instructors located, girls will be able to stay in school until they are eighteen, instead of being married off by twelve.






Service Above Self
PO Box 1717
Quincy, CA 95971
United States of America
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Johnna LeonhardtSeptember 12
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John BreauxSeptember 1, 199726 years
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Mike FlaniganSeptember 1, 199528 years
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Douglas ElySeptember 10, 201211 years
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Rick FosterSeptember 13, 199924 years

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