International Service Committee
Chairman: Bob Jukes tel: 01308 458 168
email: yvonnejukes@btinternet.com
This committee sends money to GLOBAL projects, from the money raised by the FUND RAISING COMMITTEE.
Due to their efforts we were able to support some of the following charities:
Shelterbox
This box is a survival kit for 10 people and it contains a tent, sleeping bags, water purifying tablets, candles, rope ,shovel. cooking facilities ,tools and childrens toys. The box costs £490.00
As of October 2008 Shelterbox has provided shelter for over 600.000 people in 47 countries, responding to 76 disasters and raising £ 20 million in just 8 years. Approximately 45,000 boxes have been sent as aid, including boxes paid for with funds from UK, USA, Australia, Canada Germany, South East Asia, Norway, New Zealand, Luxembourg.
Major Emergencies:The number of people estimated to have been helped by Shelterbox includes:
2004 Boxing Day Tsunami 227.000
2005 Hurricane Katrina 13,200
2005 Kasmir earthquake, Pakistan 138,000
2006 Java earthquake & tsunami 16,000
2007 Monsoon floods – Pakistan & Nepal 19,150
2008 Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar 23,720
2008 China earthquakw 45,000
ongoing aid to Africa. 52,000
Income : Around 50% of Shelterbox income is in the form of donations from the UK public, the other 50% is raised on our behalf by Rotary Clubs across the UK and worldwide.
Around 90% of all the income goes directly on the boxes and their contents.
A new box has been developed to help schools which are often destroyed in disasters. Shelterbox set up temporary schools for about 40 children between 3 and 9 who have been provided with a bright yellow schoolbag containing paper, pens, colouring pencils, a chalk board, chalk and a geometry set while teachers receive chalk, paper pens, blackboard paint, calculators and a wind-up radio for use in class. The first one opened 3 Dec 2008 in the village of Wam in the North of Pakistan.
The Shelterbox is a project from the Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard and was started as a millennium project in 2000 by Rotarian Tom Henderson. President of the Trust is: HRH The Duchess of Cornwall
For more information: http://www.shelterbox.org
Mercy Ship
This is an international charity. It operates the ship "Africa Mercy", the worlds largest non governmental hospital ship, which came into service in 2006, and two land bases to bring medical care, relief, aid and long term sustainable change to developing nations. The Africa Mercy has 6 operating rooms and an 80 bed ward.
Mercy Ship staff and crew are all volunteers and there are about 35 different nationalities working for Mercy ship.
By following the example of Jesus, the Mercy Ships staff seek to love and serve others through providing surgeries, basic healthcare and community development which includes construction and agriculture. Mercy Ships also ministers to the spiritual needs of the individual as well as to their physical needs.
Rotary Clubs in R.I.B.I. (Britain & Ireland) donated more than £681,000 which covered the cost of the R.I.B.I. Ophthalmic theatre.
Fundraising continues for the ships "Rotary International Lounge"
For more information : www.mercyships.org
World Water Works
(Formerly called Water Survival Box) This is 54 litre plastic container, that becomes a receptacle for water when emptied of the survival items, e.g feeding and drinking articles and health and hygiene articles. It also includes a filtration pack including Chlorine tablets - enough for a family of 4 for some 4 months. Cost £105 / box.
This project is from the Rotary Club of Chelwood Bridge.
For more information: www.worldwaterworks.org
WaterAid
WaterAid is an international charity. The aim is to overcome poverty by enabling the worlds poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
The Rotary Club of Bridport support this charity by collecting old mobile phones and we donate the money we receive for those phones. Since July we have collected over £200.00 .
For more information: www.wateraid.org
Send a Cow
Send a Cow is a Christian charity that enables poor farmers in Africa to become self-reliant by providing them with livestock, training and advice. We work with some of the most vulnerable groups in Africa, including children orphaned by war, families affected by AIDS, and disabled people.
For more information: www.sendacow.org.uk
Sight Savers
Sightsavers works to combat blindness in developing countries, restoring sight through specialist treatment and eye care. We also support people who are irreversibly blind by providing education, counselling and training. We help the people who need it most - those living in poverty in some of the world's poorest countries.
For more information: www.sightsavers.org
Hope & Homes for Children
Hope and Homes for Children is a registered charity working in 12 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Africa. Our head office is based in Wiltshire in the UK.
Our Mission is to give hope to the poorest children in the world - those who are
orphaned, abandoned or vulnerable - by enabling them to grow up within the love of a family and the security of a home, so that they can fulfill their potential.
Impact
The Lifeline Express Hospital Train - travels the famous Indian rail network restoring sight and mobility and repairing disabling cleft lip. This ‘Magic Train' is now so famous that it features in school text books as far afield as Australia! Five new carriages have been provided by the Ministry of Railways and, with the help of Rotarians, these are being renovated to replace the well-used old coaches, which will become a static hospital in a rural area.
The Jibon Tari Floating Hospital - the ‘Boat of Life', as it is known locally, traverses Bangladesh's vast waterways which cover much of the country, dispensing surgery and medical treatment to impoverished people living in remote riverside communities.
For more information: www.impact.org.uk