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Posted at: 2010-02-05 14:38 hrs IST
by Rtn PP PHF Mohanraaj K.M. ( Tirupur North )
Past President
Post Subject: World roundup Rotary news in Brief from around the globe
ZAMBIA
At Children's Town in Malambanyama, a community school and home for street children, meals are cooked outdorrs in large pots in fire pits and classes are often delayed during the rainy season, when collecting wood and starting the fires becomes difficult. But throught a US$13,050 project of the Rotary clubs of Batavia, N.Y.,USA; Lusaka Central, Zambia; and St. Catharines, Ont., Canada, and a Matching Grant from the Riotary Foundation, the school has received a modern kitchen, including its first regrigerator and freezer. In addition to offering a place to prepare nutritious food, the new kitchen will be used to provide students with vocational training.
CYPRUS
Nearly 100 cars were driven in a classic car rally organized by the Rotary Club of Nicosia-Ledra on 22 March. MOre than 200 drivers and friends of Rotary particiated in the four-hour drive along narrow roads that wind through centuriesold villages. The US$8,400 raised by the event ws donated to an assocation for children with congential heart defects, whict affect about 7 out of every 1,000 childfen born in Cyprus each year.
RUSSIA
The Rotary Clb of Moscow-East partnered with other clubs on three continents to provide a school bus to an orphanage in korolyov, a city outside Moscpow. Without the bus, which was donated in June with help from a Rotary Foundation Matching Grant, the children had few chances to leave the orphanage. The new bus has transported them to summer camp and to a health clinic, amoung other places. The Moscow-East club has sponsored other projects at the facility, including purchasuing ice skates and hosting a lecutre on alcohol and smoking.
PHILIPPINES
The Rotract Club of Timog has created an animated character called the Germinator to help in the fight against pneumonia and diarrhea, listed by the country's Department of Health as two of the leading causes of death among Philloppine children. The Rotaractors' Clean Hands campaign teaches the importance and proper method of hand-washing to children ages 4 to 12 using an animated video, original music and dance, and lectures. The club recently brought the campaign to a local elementary school and a day care center, reaching a total of 1,150 children. The Rotary Club of Timog-Quezon City partnered with the Rotaractors on the effort, which was revognized by RI as a 2009 Outstanding Rotaract Project.
VANUATU
Twelve Interactors from the Queensland Academy for Health Sciences in Australia traveled to Port Vila in April. The students, whose trip was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Ashmore, Australia, painted the walls of the Vila Central Hospital and donated books to the hospital's children's ward. They stayed at the Lycee de Bougainville, a French-language school and attended two days of classes there.
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