Speaker Lynne Symonds on Wulugu Project

Tue, Aug 4th 2020 at 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

We were pleased to welcome Lynne back on Zoom to up date us on the project. As a small charity they are finding it hard to raise funds, but things continue to progress, as mentioned below.

In years past they have set up 7 schools for girls and hostels for teachers.

They are to open two more new schools in September. There are many volunteers in norther Ghana to carry on the work, so that Lynne has not been out there for some time. They work with other groups in the country.

The latest initiative is to build bore holes in villages, so that all the people can have clean water, which is so necessary for the health and well being of everyone. The have built 3 so far, helping 20,000 people to have safe drinking water. Each borehole cost about £3,000 and she was grateful for our donation earlier in the year towards this work.

She also repeated that they were grateful for our donation for trees, mad some time ago.

'What We Do' Main Pages:

Death of H M Queen Elizabeth II

Members of Seaburn Rotary wish to express their condolences to members of The Royal Family upon the death of Her Majesty.

World Community/Internat'l Service

Rotary Club of Seaburn works with communities overseas, mostly through The Rotary Foundation.

End Polio Now

Rotary International's big effort to rid the world of this crippling disease started in 1985. We are so close to completing the job. Just one last push!

Community Service

'We're for Communities' and work within our local community, whose assistance and support we value greatly.

Youth Opportunities

Activities include working with schools,Youth Competitions, Rotary Youth Leadership Award scheme, our Interact Club, Rotakids clubs and much more.

Vocational Service

We follow this avenue of service by helping in schools in a variety of ways. We also have speakers who tell us about their occupations.

Satellite Club

Former Rotary Club of Seaburn Satellite Club, which was formed into a separate Rotary Club SR1.

Club/Membership Services

This committee is concerned with the administration of the club. It incorporates: House; Registrar; Fellowship; Programme; Sport. The President Elect is usually the chairman of the committee, with other members taking a lead in each particular activity.

A collage of the seven cards we have on offer for sale in 2020.

Each year a new card is painted by Rotarian Randle Oliver. These are sold to friends as well as other Rotary club members to raise funds for Rotary Foundation and other charities, including our own Benevolent Fund.

MEMORY CAFE

This new community venture opened in August 2017. The meetings are held at 2.00 pm on the last Wednesday each month.

Redby Rotakids with their charter and Rotarians

Redby Academy Rotakids were excited to received the charter on 17th May 2016

Membership

Rotary's main purpose is to encourage and nurture volunteerism locally, nationally and internationally. We have an active Membership Committee and would like to hear from anyone interested in finding out more about Rotary.

The Rotary Club of Seaburn received a banner award in recognition of its generous support of Rotary Foundation, being the 3rd highest donor in Rotary North East. It demonstrates the club's commitment to Doing Good in the World.