seeing the needs in ghana related to rotary six areas of focus

Taking Roads Less Traveled to Serve Ghana

What is our Track Record?• Raised over $1.2 Million• 264,000 People Have Safe Water• 90 New Boreholes in recent efforts• Eradicating Guinea worm disease• Impacting Buruli Ulcer disease• Transforming lives in Ghana• Teams from US, Canada & Switzerland

Hawaii

Partner with 80+ Clubs in 16 States, Switzerland, & 2 Canadian Provinces!

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CaliforniaNew

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TexasNew York

West Virginia

New Jersey

Vermont Virginia Florida

North Carolina

Tennessee

Wyoming

Needs Identified on Last Trip• Providing clean water & sanitation• Promoting peace• Upgrading hospitals and clinics• Growing local economies• Improving education & literacy• Fighting disease

Strengthening & starting Rotary Clubs

Providing Clean Water & Sanitation

• Drill new boreholes and wells• Provide water & latrines at schools• Increase sustainability with Water

& Sanitation Committee training• Target places with water shortages

& high levels of disease• Upgrade and repair small town

mechanized water systems

Drill New Boreholes and Wells• Drill 20 new boreholes

at cost of $6,000• Build bathrooms &

latrines at schools, hospitals and in towns

Mechanized City Water Systems

• Upgrade 5 towns at Cost of $3,000+/town• Near Rotary Clubs of

Tamale & Techiman• Need is urgent• Change power source

Promoting Peace

• Rotary is setting the example• Three Rotary Clubs have Muslim

and Christian members • Leadership in our clubs include

both Christians and Muslims• Different tribes are represented• Dug 13 wells in civil unrest area in

Bawku in northeastern Ghana

Provide Beds & Medical Equipment• Upgrade Techiman

Hospital and several smaller clinics • Need dialysis machine• $40-50,000 effort

Growing Local Economies• Grow economy & jobs• Need training for shea

butter, basket weaving, soap making, trade certifications, and health related training.

Improve Education & Literacy• Provide water, books,

latrines, library, desks• Need is all over Ghana• Empower schools

Fighting Disease in Africa• Locating wells in South Sudan

Guinea worm endemic villages• Prototyping care for neglected

tropical disease called Buruli Ulcer• Raise awareness that we need to

“Add Water” to end Polio in Nigeria• Raising funds to drill wells in Nigeria

where Polio is a risk to children

Why Not End Disease in World?

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

2,733

1,692

1,028

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Number of People with Guinea WormBy Year

Ghana South Sudan

Guinea Worm Disease

Guinea Worm Cases By Year

Country 2011 2012 2013 2014

South Sudan 1,030 521 1133

Chad 10 10 14 3

Mali 12 7 11 0

Ethiopia 8 4 70

Sudan 0 0 3 0

Ghana 0 0 0 0

Eastern Equatoria is target state in South Sudan. Year-to-date is through March 2014.

Fewer Cases in Remote Places

Ghana in ‘07

South Sudan October ‘12

Buruli Ulcer is Neglected Tropical Disease in Africa

Clean Water & Vocational Trainingin Global Grants 25176 & 25922

• Impacted 93,781 people over last two years• Drilled 47 boreholes and wells• Found and cared for Buruli Ulcer patients• Trained 56 villages about Buruli Ulcer• Selected & trained 484 community health

care worker volunteers• Trained 176 doctors and nurses• Reduced Buruli Ulcer Disease in Ghana

Lives Changed with Grants in Asunafo South District

• Provided new & repaired wells in endemic communities to cover whole district with clean water

• Prototyped care for Buruli Ulcer• Year People with Buruli

2011 74

2012 45

2013 5

We Are Changing Lives of People with Buruli Ulcer

Before Treatment

After Treatment

Is Your Dream Big Enough?

• Our dream was to drill one well in Africa and raise funds from six clubs

• Today, Ghana is being transformed by• Connecting pieces of the puzzle together • Strategic humanitarian projects that build on

past grants to achieve larger goals • Action is causing new clubs to form• People are noticing that Rotarians who join

together can make a big difference!

Your Rotary Club gave water to Amanfe, Ghana!

Chatham RotaryFound Here!

Strengthening Existing Clubs & Starting New Rotary Clubs• Action recruits young professionals• Techiman and Sunyani East Rotary

Clubs were chartered in May 2013• Most members of Sunyani East RC

are young, less than 30 years old!• Global grants strengthen clubs in Ghana

• Need new clubs in northwestern and southwestern Ghana

Travel to Amazing Places!

Once in a Lifetime Journey!

Thanks, Journey is Worth It!