International
no funding from the Government.
Vision Aid have dispensed over 250,000 spectacles world wide. You can help by collecting old spectacles. Visit your local optician, get them to help collect. When you have some please contact the web site and we can arrange to send them on to one of 6 prisons in U K where the spectacles are sorted and graded then sent oveseas. The COST to you is an hour or two at the most. The benefit to others is beyond price.
Rotary International began the process to eliminate POLIO throughout the world. This has been adopted by the World Health Organisation and there are now VERY few places in the world where Polio is endemic. The Wednesbury Club is proud to play a part in this project. Watch these pages for the latest information
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Aquaboxes are amazing. Here are some pictures
They are life savers that provide clean drinking water for a family who would otherwise drink dirty, contaminated liquid. The box costs £50.00 to buy, this includes ALL transport to you, from you and to the destination. The box can be filled with emergency clothes, toys, dishes etc. It comes with all things necessary to purify 1100 litres of water which can last a family of four for a month. Will you or your organisation help? Please contact the web site for details OR www.aquabox.org Following the tsunami in Samoa area and major flooding in Manila Aquaboxes are urgently needed. Can you, will you help. Rotary already has teams working in both places. For details please contact the site.
Philippines Education Project
The Club is supporting Kimberley through ACES charity
www.acescharity.co.uk She now in the second year of training as a nurse. Read her reports as she progresses. A Club member visited the Philippines during April and met
Kimberley and her mother. Both are delighted to have the support of ACES.
The Trustees have sufficient funds to train another nurse and a teacher from July 2009. The student nurse is
Ronnel and the student teacher is
Maikee. The Club member was involved in the selection of these two and met their parents. You can follow their progress via ACES web site
Immediate Past president Mike Peakman presents Aces representative
Philip Rainsford with a ceheque for £700,
to go towards supporting another Student