International

International Projects


Our International Projects for this year

Polio Plus
After 20 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.

Your contribution will help Rotary raise $200 million to match $355 million in challenge grants received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The resulting $555 million will directly support immunization campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyze children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families.

As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high.

The Wheelchair Foundation
The Wheelchair Foundation is a nonprofit organization leading an international effort to create awareness of the needs and abilities of people with physical disabilities, to promote the joy of giving, create global friendship, and to deliver a wheelchair to every child, teen and adult in the world who needs one, but cannot afford one. For these people, the Wheelchair Foundation delivers Hope, Mobility and Freedom.

Over 100 million children, teens and adults worldwide are in need of a wheelchair but cannot afford one.

For each $75 donated, we will combine that with funds provided specifically for that purpose and deliver a wheelchair to a child, teen or adult without mobility, freedom and often hope.
www.wheelchairfoundation.org
AquaBox
Disasters come in many forms - earthquake; cyclone; flood; refugee displacement - but all share a common factor. The most urgent single problem facing the relief agencies is the provision of a supply of safe drinking-water.

In some cases, it may be possible for the relief agencies to supply water from outside the affected area. In others, there is clearly a need for those suffering in the aftermath of a disaster to achieve an early, if temporary, self-sufficiency in the supply of safe drinking-water. The answer is Aquabox.
www.aquabox.org
Shelterbox
The idea of Shelterbox is provide one pre-packed, self contained, easily transported unit that provides shelter, warmth and sleeping facilities for 10 people. In May 2000 The Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard (D1290) adopted an individual member's idea as an ongoing Millennium (2000) project. Shelter Box has Trust status and is a Registered Charity. It is able to not only respond to natural and man-made disasters worldwide it has also diversified and it is aiming to provide shelter over the next four years for one million displaced women and children in Africa who have been rendered homeless as a result of war.

A fully equipped Shelter Box costs £490.00 and contains 185ltr capacity rigid plastic container, one new 10 person tent, ten new sleeping bags and useful ancillary equipment including water-purifying material, water carrying bags, cooking pots, rope, tools etc. The cost of dispatching, delivering and distributing the Shelter Box is included in the £490.00 cost.

The Shelter Box scheme has been taken up by Rotary clubs in the USA, Australia and Canada.
www.shelterbox.org

 

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Guests at celebratory dinner

Visit to Orléans

more Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Rotary Club of Orléans

International and Foundation Chair, Andy Argo, President Wendy Maltman and Mission International Director Hugh Henderson

ICT devices for Africa

more The education of pupils and students in Africa will be boosted thanks to members of Dundee Rotary Club.

ICT devices for Africa

more The education of pupils and students in Africa will be boosted thanks to members of Dundee Rotary Club.

Teddy Bear Parachute Jump

more held at Mains Castle

ShoeBox Appeal 2018

more Delivery of boxes to Perth

Spreading a little happiness in Eastern Europe

more Dai John, Chair of the International Service Committee, with shoe boxes collected by the Rotary Club of Dundee

For the love of a child

more The Rotary Club of Dundee made a donation of £1000 to support aid work in Lebanon

Dundee Rotarians Dai John and Alan Calder-McNicoll with Phillipa Maphoso, President of Zimbabwe Gweru Rotary Club

Working together to support a market garden project in Gweru, Zimbabwe

more Working together to support a market garden project in Gweru, Zimbabwe

(left to right): Rotarians Donald MacKerron, Monifieth; Ron Elder, Claverhouse; Jim Crowe, Abertay, and David Laing, Dundee

Shelterboxes for Nepal

more (left to right): Rotarians Donald MacKerron, Monifieth; Ron Elder, Claverhouse; Jim Crowe, Abertay, and David Laing, Dundee

Earthquake in Nepal 2015

Nepal Earthquake

more April 2015 Eartquake

Mrs Dorothy Jacobi of Dundee making a donation to Rotarian Bob Black.

Collection for Nepal

more Mrs Dorothy Jacobi of Dundee making a donation to Rotarian Bob Black.

Chocolate evening poster

Chocolate Evening

more An evening of chocolate tasting and raising money for the charity 500 Miles

ShelterBox Appeal

more ShelterBox Appeal for the Philippines with a report on progress so far.

Zooming from Zimbabwe

more Tendai Madanzi from the Rotary Club of Gweru gives an update on the market garden project our club is supporting