Overseas Communities

We provide help to communities, not only  by responding to disaster appeals but, importantly, by providing long-term help, enabling access to water, and helping with refurbishment after disaster reconstruction. We are passionately interested in in helping orphaned children and in getting their carers back into employment.

Our work with other Rotary clubs has enabled communities in drylands countries to build sand dams, which provide safe, clean water for life closer to people's homes. This not only frees up children's time to go to school, but enables their parents to generate income to invest in their children's education because the communities now grow irrigated crops and plant native trees.

After being involved with Rotary’s disaster relief programme following the devastating earthquakes in Turkey in 2023, we are now working with a hospital specialist burns clinic to use a new, state-of-the-art system involving stem cells to treat infants suffering for very intensive burns

In Nepal we completed a major project in 2022 to re-equip five schools, rebuilt after the earthquakes, providing them with teacher training, electronic equipment and updated classrooms and playgrounds.

We are working with Care International to enable us to provide microfinance loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries. So far we have lent £7, to 440 entrepreneurs.

Read about these and some of our other projects below