Here's a toast to Peace & Conflict Resolution Month! This is one of our seven Areas of Service! What can all District 5840 Clubs do?
- Partner with adjacent Clubs on bigger and better Service Projects!
- Promote all clubs with regional news media.
- Look for ways to get your club involved with an International Service Project.
- Support the Rotary Youth Exchange program by sponsoring an outbound student or hosting an inbound student!
- Work with clubs in other Districts close to #5840 on Service Projects,
- Participate in a Global Grant! You can be a partner in a grant that already has an idea that will make a lasting impact, but needs additional funding from other Rotary Clubs! Check out the list of Global Grants requesting financial support on myrotary.org.
We just finished a very active End Human Trafficking Month! Thanks to all the clubs for helping to promote and educate their communities throughout January 2022. I am so excited to see that RI is backing this initiative with graphics and additional public image support. I truly believe that Rotarians can make a difference in this war against modern day slavery. Let's not forget the other 11 months of the year! Search out leaders in your community who want to partner with us and let's keep the momentum going.
We are asking each club to appoint a Combat Human Trafficking Champion. This can be any member of the club that has a passion for this area of service. He/She is encouraged to seek out community partners, recruit them to work with your club, share information about the Rotary Combat Human Trafficking E-Club and ask them to consider becoming a member of this dynamic club. Working together, we can fight to End Human Trafficking, just like we continue the fight to End Polio!
Lastly, it was my pleasure to travel these past 8 days on a mission trip to Guatemala and look at a possible Global Grant project in an area where villagers live off grid without any electricity or water wells. Past mission trips have built a solar powered water filtration system that provides some safe water to drink. Children only have a primary school education due to the absence of a local teacher. Working with Habitat for Humanity, the village is building a home for a teacher to stay during the week, while they commute from a larger city. Multiple Rotary clubs have helped with financial support for this house. A long term project is to build a Vocational High School which will serve multiple villages on the mountain. This school will help to train young women and men who can return home to help their village prosper. One of the trade school's goals is to "Empower Girls" as villages must send a girl for every boy enrolled. What a blessing this would be with regards to overall literacy and self sustainability.
Kris