WASH - Clean water, Safe Sanitation & Hygiene Education, Siyajabula Children's Home (Place of Happiness), Molweni, South Africa
International Projects
Annual End Polio Now Tulip campaign-spearheaded by Pam Harrison, Rotary Club of Sackville.
The tulips were designed and created in Holland specifically for the End Polio Now campaign. Each box sold provides vaccines for eight children.
- In 2020 we donated funds to the Rotary Club of Grand Manan who spearheaded a Rotary International approved project in Ghana, Africa.
- This was a joint project with the Diocese of Fredericton, Diocese in HO, HO teaching hospital and Rotary clubs of HO and Grand Manan. Under the direction of Robbie Griffin, Rotary International approved a global grant of $113,000 US.
- The mobile clinic will bring basic health care to roughly 2.5 million people in rural Ghana.
- Covid-19 introduced delays, but the medical van is now expected to be delivered before the end of 2021.
- This is a field-army style unit that will act as a laboratory, pharmacy and medical supply unit. Tents (stored on the roof) provide space for intake, examination of patients and minor surgeries. The clinic is powered by an onboard generator.
- More information can be found by Google search- 'HO Mobile Medical Clinic'
The Rotary Club of Sussex contributed $5000 to the Chapina Bonita Smoke Free Stove Project. It is spearheaded by Gary Stewart from the Rotary Club of Woodstock.
The benefits are immediate:
- Preventing sight and respiratory illness
- Relieving headaches and eye irritation
- Reducing wood consumption by 70-80%
- Helping the family economy
