Recognitions
President
Tom
Knowles confessed to several things that had happened while he was
gone. He fractured his wrist and suffered other minor injuries
riding his mountain
bike. He moved to a new house. He lost the Bell. He
contributed $100.
Jen Liu
had the
Bell. He contributed $50
Steve
Plume
contributed $25 for his new badge which he received from Diana for the
one that was lost.
Next Meeting
The
next
meeting, on Aprill 7th, will be at Nascere Vineyards, 3471
Durham
Dayton Highway.
Membership
Bring
guests who
you think you can interest in becoming a member. We Need More Members! Your
dinner and
your guest’s dinner will be paid for by the Club. Also, bring a
guest to oneof our occasional social gatherings.
President
Tom is
asking the members to bring in new members this year.
Go to the
following Rotary International web site for information on membership
development: https://my.rotary.org/en/learning-reference/learn-topic/membership
.
From this website there is access to membership development and
other
related information.
The
Rotary
Foundation Donations
You can make a difference in this world by helping
people
in need. Your gift can do some great things, from supplying filters
that cleanpeople’s drinking water to empowering local entrepreneurs to
grow through
business development training.
The Rotary Foundation will use your gift to fund
the
life-changing work of Rotary members who provide sustainable solutions
to their communities’ most pressing needs. But we need help from
people like you who
will take action and give the gift of Rotary to make these projects
possible.
When every Rotarian
gives
every year, no challenge is too great for us to make a difference. The
minimum gift to The Rotary Foundation is $25.00. An annual
$100.00 gift is
a sustaining member. Once your donations accumulate to $1,000
you become a Paul Harris Fellow.
If you have any
questions, ask
Steve Heithecker.
It is possible to learn more about The Rotary
Foundation on
the Rotary web site.
Your gift can be made online or by sending Jessica
Thorpe a
check made out to The Rotary Foundation to Durham Rotary,
P.O. Box
383, Durham, California 95958.
The latest District Newsletter has been uploaded
to DACdb -
to view it there go to the District tab, open the District Bulletin
file andlook for the pdf file named Rotary District 5160
Newsletter.
Spring Assembly is
coming
up, April 11, 8:30 to 2 PM, at Shasta College's Downtown Redding
Campus, 1400Market St. If you haven't had a chance to register, do it
now.
To help publicize this event and to
encourage
your club members to attend, we have created two pieces for you to
share: A slide if you use a projector/Powerpoint during your club
meetings and a flyer
that you can print out and put out on tables during your meeting.
You can also email either one, if you email your club members.
Must
Be Present to Win
Drawing:
Larrry Bradley to drew John
Bohannon’s
name. But he was not here to win.
From
Rotary
International’s News and Features Website
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that
the proceeding may not be the complete article. See the complete
article onRotary International’s web page.}
Note that
the photos
in the original article may not have been reproduced here.
Water
beyond
wells
With dams, rainwater collection, and purification systems,
Rotary and Rotaract clubs help people access clean water
By Etelka
Lehoczky
Access
to
clean water and sanitation can determine whether a child gets an
education.That’s what Rotaract club
members in
the Ashanti region of Ghana learned when they explored ways to improve
schools in their area.
The
schools
the club members visited faced water shortages and relied on
contaminated water, resulting in high levels of diarrhea, dysentery,
and other
illnesses. There were no modern toilets, and girls didn’t have private
spaces for menstrual hygiene. The lack of water affected every aspect
of the students’
lives. The wide-ranging impact of water access is highlighted on the
United Nations’ World Water Day, observed on 22 March.
“Water
bankruptcy
is becoming a driver of fragility, displacement, and
conflict,”Tshilidzi Marwala, undersecretary-general of the UN, said in
January. “Managing
[water] fairly — ensuring that vulnerable communities are protected
and that unavoidable losses are shared equitably — is now central to
maintaining peace,
stability, and social cohesion,” Marwala said.
More
than
2 billion people around the globe lack clean, safe drinking water.
Helping people gain access to clean water and sanitation is a top
priority for Rotary,
which includes the issue among its seven main causes.
With
a
US$57,000 global grant from The Rotary Foundation, members of the
Rotaract clubs of Kumasi and Obuasi in Ghana brought clean water and
sanitation
facilities to eight schools in the Ashanti region. Their project
installed around 80 micro flush toilets and 10 urinals, constructed
changing rooms for
girls, and drilled borehole wells at two schools. Ghanian Rotary and
Rotaract clubs and Rotaract clubs in Turkey and the U.S. supported the
initiative. It
benefited more than 6,000 people.
Other
recent
Rotary projects in Mexico, Kenya, and the Dominican Republic highlight
the far-reaching impact of water accessibility.
Clean
water
for the Rarámuri
Mexico
The
Indigenous
Rarámuri people live in isolated mountain villages in Mexico’s
Chihuahua state. They face high rates of infectious diseases,
malnutrition, and
infant mortality due to a lack of clean water. The villages are out of
reach of existing water networks, and the terrain makes it virtually
impossible to drill
wells.
A
global grant-funded project led by the Rotary Club of Chihuahua
Campestre,Chihuahua, Mexico, installed rainwater collection and
purification systems in
two villages, bringing water to 54 families.
The
project
included masonry classes for residents, who took part in the
construction. Women and girls no longer need to travel long distances
to
collect water. Partner organizations provided food and nutritional
supplements for children, pregnant women, and older residents.
Sand
dams
for farmers
Kenya
Residents
of
southeastern Kenya experience poverty and famine due to climate
extremes and frequent, severe droughts. The Rotary Club of Embakasi,
Kenya, led a global
grant-funded project to construct sand dams, wells, and hand pumps for
two subsistence farming communities.
The
US$88,000
project created sustainable water sources for around 3,000 people. It
also trained farmers in crop diversification and rotation, tree
nurturing and
management, beekeeping, soil and water conservation, and livestock
production.The initiative distributed drought-tolerant crop seeds,
tree seedlings, and
food preservation chemicals.
Providing
for
the House of Light
Dominican
Republic
Casa
De
Luz (“House of Light”) provides care for 40 orphaned and abandoned
children with severe disabilities in Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic. The residence
hospital relies on a well for water, but it’s not clean.
With
a
US$117,000 global grant, the Rotary Club of Santo Domingo Bella
Vista,Dominican Republic, installed a water purification plant at the
hospital. The
plant provides enough water for the hospital’s needs and a surplus
that it can sell. In addition to training hospital employees to
operate the system, the
project established a distribution route for trucks to sell water
throughout the community. Around 4,500 people benefited from the
project.
Learn more about Rotary’s work to increase access to
clean water and sanitation.
—
March 2026
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