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The Rotary Club of London Centenary (EClub) Projects during Rotary Year 2013/14 LR – taken at the close of District 1130 Conference in Bournemouth, October 2013. Rtn Chris, PP Francis (in Nigerian dress), Audrey our Scholar from the Netherlands, President Jo Ann, PP Ernes and PP Stella give the ‘thumbsup’ for Rotary London

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The  Rotary  Club  of  London  Centenary  (E-­‐Club)  

         

 

 Projects  during  Rotary  Year  2013/14  

   

   

 L-­‐R  –  taken  at  the  close  of  District  1130  Conference  in  Bournemouth,  October  2013.    Rtn  Chris,  PP  Francis  (in  Nigerian  dress),  Audrey  our  Scholar  from  the  Netherlands,  President  Jo  Ann,  PP  Ernes  and  PP  Stella  give  the  ‘thumbs-­‐up’  for  Rotary  London  

 

Four  of  the  24  students  from  all  over  the  world  who  were  looked  after  by  our  Club  Secretary  Stella,  (acting  on  behalf  of  District  1130)  who  organises  their  papers,  universities,  and  living  expenses.  All   students  had  received  Foundation  Grants  to  cover  one  year  of  University  attendance  and  accommodation.  All  students  study  at  London  Universities  in  any  of  the  six  focus  areas  of  Rotary.  

 Colombia  –  A  donation  of  £100  was  made  to  Peace  Brigades  International  UK  in  December  2013  following  a  presentation  given  on  17  October  2013  by  Gwen  Burnyeat  about  her  work  supporting  village  leaders  seeking  to  protect  their  communities  from  violence  by  terrorist  groups,  major  mining  companies  and  the  military.  

 England  -­‐-­‐-­‐  In  both  2011/12  and  2012/13  the  Club  donated  £100  towards  the  cost  of  the  Disability  Sports  Tournament  organised  by  the  Rotary  District  1130  Sports  Committee.  Each  summer  teams  of  disabled  teenagers  and  adults  from  North  London,  South  Hertfordshire  and  West  Essex  meet  at  the  Aspire  National  Training  Centre  for  Spinal  Injuries  at  Stanmore  in  North  London.   The  day  is  staffed  by  Rotary  volunteers  and  

provides  an  opportunity  for  disabled  people  to  try  out  various  sporting  activities  regardless  of  skill  or  ability  in  a  friendly  but  competitive  atmosphere.  Club  Secretary  Stella  Russell  and  her  husband  Ernie  run  the  darts  section  each  year.  

 Guatemala  –  A  donation  of  £500  was  given  in  February  2014  to  the  Dutch  charity  Los  Niños  based  in  Tilburg,  The  Netherlands  towards  the  wages  of  Jorge  Ortiz,  a  computer  teacher  at  the  Semilla  de  Esperanza  y  Amor  (Seed  of  Hope  and  Love)  school  in  the  mountain  village  of  San  Mateo,  near  Antigua.  The  school  was  set  up  by  Lys  Flores,  a  local  Guatemalan  woman  for  Mayan  Indian  children  and  later  supported  by  Los  Niños.  

Rotarian  Chris  Edwards  and  his  wife  went  to  Guatemala  in  March  2014  to  visit  the  school  and  other  Los  Niños  projects.   A  donation  of  £400  was  given  to  Los  Niños  in  2012/13  to  go  toward  the  wages  of  the  computer  teacher.  

 India  –  A  donation  of  £100  was  given  in  February  2014  to  support  the  Rotary  Guildford  Eye  Project  in  India  following  a  talk  given  to  the  Club  on  5  December  2013  by  John  Miles  of  Leatherhead  RC.  The  project  has  set  up  by  Samar  Das,  an  eye  surgeon  who  is  a  member  of  Guildford  RC.  So  far  the  Eye  Project  has  provided  16  eye  hospitals  across  India  since  it  was  established  in  1997  and  has  carried  out  over  40,000  eye  operations.  

 London,  UK  –  London  Centenary  has  been  working  with  the  Bush  Hill  Park  Rotary  Club  to  give  out  pictorial  dictionaries  to  children  about  to  leave  primary  schools  in  a  deprived  part  of  North  London  under  Rotary’s  Dictionaries  4Life  programme.  The  Club  paid  out  £220  to  this  project  in  2012/13  and  in  June  2013  Rotarians  Stella  Russell  and  Pietro  Amati  gave  out  dictionaries  to  children  at  a  primary  school  in  North  London.   In  early  

2014  a  further  £196  was  paid  out  to  order  more  dictionaries  to  be  given  out  by  members  of  the  Club  in  June  2014  to  children  leaving  the  same  school  to  go  on  to  secondary  school.  

 London,  UK  –  The  Club  set  aside  a  budget  of  £100  to  give  support  of  various  kinds  to  the  Life  Learning  Centre  in  Cypress  Road,  Lower  Edmonton  in  2013/14  that  deals  with  teenagers  who  cannot  be  assisted   inside  the  school  system.   Club  Secretary  Stella  Russell  is  leading  this  project.  Youngsters  at  the  Centre  have  already  planted  crocus  bulbs  supplied  to  them  to  make  the  grounds  of  the  Centre  more  attractive  each   spring.  

FLOOD  RELIEF  IN  SURREY  -­‐    Following  serious  flooding  of  the  River  Thames  earlier  in  2014,  the  Club  donated  £300  to  the  Rotary  Clubs  of  Staines  and  Chertsey  in  support  of  their  activities  to  help  people  and  organisations  whose  properties  had  been  damaged  by  the  flooding.  

 

Philippines  –  In  January  2014  the  Club  donated  £820  to  ShelterBox  towards  the  help  they  have  being  giving  in  response  to  the  exceptionally  destructive  hurricane  that  hit  the  Philippine  Islands.   This  is  sufficient  to  purchased  one  fully  equipped  Shelterbox  plus  one  supplementary  Tent.  

 

Turkey  –  In  response  to  an  appeal  by  the  District  Governor  of  District  1130,  in  December  2014  London  Centenary  donated  £100  to  the  Turkish  Triangle  Project  which  aims  to  assist  Syrian  refugees  camped  in  what  is  known  as  the  Turkish  Triangle  in  southern  Turkey.   The  Project  is  run  by  the  Rotary  clubs  of  London  and  New  York  

together  with  a  Rotary  club  in  Ankara,  Turkey.    

Uganda  –  The  Club  has  given  a  donation  of  £200  in  2013/14  to  the  Rotary  Doctor  Bank  of  GB  and  Northern  Ireland  to  support  the  work  of  Rtn.  Dr.  Jim  Mcwhirter  with  hospitals  in  central  Uganda.   The  Club  has  previously  given  a  donation  of  £675  to  support  the  Rotary  Doctor  Bank’s  work  in  Uganda.  

 Ukraine  –  In  April  2014  the  Club  gave  a  donation  of  £100  to  Felsted  Aid  (now  called  UK  Aid)  towards  the  cost  of  buying  a  minibus  for  an  orphanage  in  a  part  of  the  Ukraine  where  children  are  still  suffering  from  the  results  of  the  Chernobyl  nuclear  energy  disaster  of  1986.  

 Zimbabwe  –  A  donation  of  £800  has  been  given  via  the  RC  of  Borrowdale  Brooke  in  Harare,  to  the  charity  Junior  Achievement  Zimbabwe  (JAZ)  to  set  up  a  youth  enterprise  project  at  Hatcliffe  High  School  in  2013/14.   In  late  2013  a  business  was  set  up  with  a  group  of  25  students  and  called  Ever  Blue  who  have  knitted  attractive  blue,  sleeveless  school  pullovers  with  the  school  logo  and  are  selling  these  to  fellow  

students.   A  donation  of  £35  has  been  given  to  pay  for  US$55  worth  of  prizes  to  be  awarded  to  the  children  selling  the  most  pullovers.   The  project  was  extended  to  May  2014  to  allow  jerseys  to  be  sold  during  the  Zimbabwean  winter.  The  students  also  earned  money  with  car-­‐-­‐-­‐washing  and  a  Talent  Show  which  involved  the  whole  school.  The  Patron  stated  –  “These  youngsters  learned  a  lot  about  organisation  and  management  during  their  JAZ  projects”  

 A  district  grant  of  £800  was  approved  in  January  2014  for  the  Club  to  make  a  total  donation  of  £1,700  to  Junior  Achievement  Zimbabwe  to  enable  them  to  sponsor  a  further  youth  enterprise  project  for  another  25  students  during  the  next  school  year.  The  picture  shows  the  Finance  Director  showing  the  new  group  the  principles  of  finance.  

 The  World  –  As  part  of  the  Boris  the  Bear  Appeal  organised  by  District  1130  in  2014  to  raise  funds  for  the  End  Polio  Now  Campaign,  London  Centenary  raised  £130  in      January  2014.  There  are  29  bears  who  have  travelled  the  London  District  collecting  funds  and  who  have  been  shipped  to  the  RI  Convention  in  Sydney  

The  Rotary  Club  of  London  Centenary  (E-­‐Club)    

Donations  to  Projects  in  Rotary  Year  2013/14                1.  Peace  Brigades  International,  Columbia  

Amount    

 £100  

Date      Dec  2013  

2.  Guildford  Rotary  Eye  Project,  India   £100    Dec  2013  

3.  Turkish  Triangle  Project  for  Syrian  refugees,  Turkey   £120    Dec  2013  

4.  Shelter-­‐-­‐-­‐Box,  The  Philippines   £820   Jan  2014  

5.  Los  Niños,  Guatemala   £500   Feb  2014  

6.  Dictionaries4Life  Project,  North  London   £196      Feb  2014  

7.  Ukraine  project  run  by  Felsted  Aid  (now  UK  Aid)   £100   Apr  2014  

8.  JAZ  Group  2014   £1,700   May  2014  

9.  Boris  the  Bear  Appeal,  End  Polio  Now  campaign   £130   Jan  2014  

10.  Rotary  Doctor  Bank  for  its  work  in  Uganda   £200   May  2014  

11.  Flooding  in  Surrey   £300   June  2014            

 Total  paid  out  as  at  30  June  2014   £4,266  We  also  paid  into  our  own  Charity  -­‐  Rotary  Foundation                    £    600  Total  Charitable  Giving       £4,866