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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