Dear Rotarians and friends,
We did not get together last week so I spent a lot of time thinking about schools in other countries and the work we are doing to partner with them.
We did not get together last week so I spent a lot of time thinking about schools in other countries and the work we are doing to partner with them.
The Bobo-Dioulasso Rotary Club we are working with to support a new middle school in Konkourona, Burkina Faso sent the final documentation needed for us to close out the implementation piece of our Global Grant. Leaders in the village are working with government officials on final approvals to open the school now. I am so thankful to the members of that Club who worked on a Global Grant project in a remote location 2 hours from where they live. This is especially true following the death of 3 Rotarians and the critical injury of 1 in their region on the way to the District changeover in June. Rotarians are coming together to do whatever they can to support the wives and children of the men who were killed and injured.
Jessmy and I got together on Saturday to review the latest version of a Global Grant application we are working on with the Santa Barbara Rotary Club to repair a middle school in Honduras and provide 10 computers and a server for the school. The Santa Barbara Rotary Club has already shown us what they can do with a little help from their friends in the Souderton-Telford Rotary Club, Emmanuel Lutheran Church and others in our community, when they built hundreds of desks, launched an environmental cleanup of the school grounds, and started construction of a kindergarten classroom. We are looking forward to seeing the improvements made by this next project.
So many Rotarians are committed to helping children thrive and the opportunities to do that are limitless.
In Rotary
Kate