International Projects & Aid

Each year we make generous donations to Rotary Foundation and the Rotary ‘End Polio Now‘ campaign. We also regularly give to disaster relief around the world. In addition, we support projects in some of the poorest countries.

ATANGI HEALTH CENTRE MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH PROJECT

The Rotary Club of St Neots was approached by a member of the Rotary Club of Atangi in early 2022, to see if we would be willing to raise money for Atangi Health Centre III, which is based in a fairly remote area.. The approach came to us because of our support for an earlier Malaria project.

St Neots is one of the Rotary Clubs that makes up Rotary District 1070 and there is a lot of enthusiasm for this project from members of the District team. The intention is to make it a District-wide project, led by St Neots.

LITTLE FACES SCHOOLS, KENYA

Sally Searle, a member of The Rotary Club of St Neots, started ‘Little Faces’ after a holiday to Kenya in 2011, where she visited a kindergarten in a very poor suburb of Mombasa. The school housed just 35 pupils and ran out of a battered tin hut. There were virtually no facilities, not even desks and the only toilet was shared with everyone in the community.

Over the years, Sally, through huge effort and working tirelessly, has turned the project into a charity that has raised sufficient funds to provide two purpose built schools – Little Faces Academy in Kisimani (which replaces the original school) and a new building, for children in years 6, 7, and 8 in nearby Bombolulu. The pupil count is now 350.

Without these facilities, the children of the area would stand little chance of any sort of education and would be likely to end up unemployed and quite possibly living on the streets.

Trustees of the Charity include Gordon Thorpe, another member of the Rotary Club of St Neots, and members of the Rotary Club of Mombasa Downtown. The project is now very much a collaboration between the UK, where fundraising efforts are supported by various Rotary Clubs, and Kenya, where the Rotary Club members in Mombasa oversee the running of the schools on the ground.