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ROTARY CHARITIES |
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Crowborough Rotary Club has supported many local, national and international causes in the past, some examples of these are detailed below.
INTERNATIONAL Rotary working to eliminate polio worldwide Bill
Gates announces a new US$255 million challenge grant to Rotary in the global effort to eradicate polio during the International Assembly in In a letter posted on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Web site this week, Bill Gates praises Rotary
International's work for over two decades in fighting to eradicate
polio and discusses the progress being made on ending the
disease. Gates cites the vital work of the World Health
Organization, UNICEF, and Rotary International in the global effort
to make polio the second disease to be eradicated, after
smallpox. In referring to Rotary, the letter states that "we
wouldn't be anywhere on this without their efforts." “Site
Savers International” - £250 donated 2009 “Shelter Box”,
shelter boxes contain tents and other useful equipment in an emergency.
13,000 were sent to Haiti in 2010 and boxes with tents to accommodate 2600
people were sent to Mexico. – We donated £980 in 2010, enough to cover the
cost of two boxes. Shelter Boxes
in Haiti (click
on the Haiti link and see the film of the tent city provided by Shelter Box) Emergency Boxes in Mexico
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ROTARY ACTIVITIES & FELLOWSHIP
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International Caravanning Fellowship of Rotarians Click for details
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