Walk for Water - 22/11/21

Speaker at Irvine Seagate Rotary’s meeting on Monday was John Dunlop from Ayr.  Ayr Rotary are organising a sponsored walk on 8 May next year, to raise funds for the charity Aquabox.  Open to everyone, participants will walk 2 miles along Ayr seafront, then 2 miles back carrying water as a reminder of the reality of everyday life for many people in developing countries.  Aquabox is a first response charity that provides simple water filters for use in disaster situations.  The 0.02 micron filters remove all harmful pathogens such as typhoid etc., and produce clean drinking water.  A family size filter is a simple hand pump that will give l litre a minute.  Designed and produced by Rotarians, it costs £25 and will last for up to 500,000 litres of water.  There were questions, and it was noted that this is a much more efficient and environmentally friendly way of providing drinking water, rather than delivering truckloads of pallets of bottled water.  A Vote of Thanks was proposed by President Hugh Hutchison.

Seagate are arranging a donation of toys for the local Barnardos at Christmas, and it is hoped that the long postponed Dragon Boat racing will take place next July.