- Over the past several years, the Attleboro Rotary
Club has sent two local youths to the Whitewater International
Youth Leadership Conference in Whitewater, Wisconsin.
- Our club was on of two local clubs recently
involved in an "Adopt a Village" program in Peru, South
America. Two representatives from our club were sent to Peru and
visited several needy projects including orphanages, shanty towns,
destitute remote mountain villages and a needy fishing village.
With financial assistance from our club, neighboring clubs, and
assistance from District 7950,
we were ultimately able to provide funding via Rotary International
Matching Grants for $54,000 worth of projects. These projects include
establishing a shoemaking facility and egg laying and pork husbandry
programs in an orphanage in Lima, Peru. These programs will help
the orphanage in it's goal to be able to operate self sufficiently and
even allow them to sell some of their surplus in the local
marketplace.
Funding was provided for several water and sanitary projects in the
remote Cerro De Pasco mountain region, where clean drinking water is
scarce and sewage/septic systems are unavailable causing sever health
problems amongst the population.
The refurbishment of a refrigeration/ice-making facility in a coastal
fishing village was funded, which will allow the fishing village to
better store their catch and obtain a fair price for their fish on the
open market.
- Our club provided assistance to the Honduras
hurricane relief effort by funding the construction of a low-cost home
for those left without homes in the aftermath of the hurricane.
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