International Service Committee
Senior Director
Matt Falconer |
The International Service Committee targets activities that help Club members provide community service around the world. Our Guatemala Water Project, for example, was inspired by Dr. Keith McKenzie, who provided free eye surgeries for a village of Mayan Indians. He learned that their water was drawn from a nearby polluted lake, which sickened many residents unless they purchased expensive bottled water. Our Club sent a team to the village, installing a solar-powered water purification system. It cleans 20,000 liters of water per day. We followed that by providing a piped-in water system for a new housing subdivision. The residents said it was the first time in 500 years that anyone had done anything to help them.
We also provided water purification systems to areas in the Philippines devastated by a typhoon, and our Club won recognition for a project that brought clean water to Indians in Mexico's Copper Canyon. We've also delivered medical equipment to hospitals, clothing and supplies to a Romanian orphanage, polio vaccines to villages in Ghana, wheelchairs to poor people in Mexico, and many other goods and services to other nations. |
World Community Service
Matt Falconer |
Rotary Foundation
Annie Asche |
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