ImageI'm happy to report that the International Services Committee continues to make progress on existing initiatives even as it creates new ones.

We are partnering with PackH20 to send water backpacks to India, Haiti, and Kenya.

We will have mission opportunities in 2014 to Nairobi, Kenya, to provide healthcare seminars and distribute reading glasses, and to India to work in leper colonies and provide glasses and dental care. We may have opportunities to fir LN-4 artificial hands as well. Either will cost $3,200 but also offer opportunities to go on safari or see the Taj Mahal. The trips are open to Rotarians and families.

We are helping support John and Rachel Koon, who made a presentation to the club in July about their mission to Moldova. They will let us know when they have hired new medical staff to assist so we can send funding.

In our school libraries in Turkey project, the small portable libraries were stored for the summer, but will be redeployed in September.  We will see photos. We are partnering with the Literacy Committee on a fund raising shredding event to support this effort. We will also be receiving a $500 District 6690 grant.

So far, we have spent $1,196 of our total budget of our $13,000 budget.

Thanks to committee members Lisa Blackwell, Jim Burness, John Cunningham, Faye Herriott, Rita Hook, Sharon Kendall, Wold Lant, John, Miller, Susan Robenalt, Debbie Sheppard, Mohan Viddam, Scott Williamson, and Sinan Yaykin.

We meet the second Friday of each month.  Please join us!