ROTARY CLUB OF KENILWORTH

International Service Committee Report 2004/05
Presented to the Club Annual General Meeting, Monday 18 May 2005

Committee Members: Colin Wilding (Chair) Jerry Duckett (Foundation), Laura Bowmer, Brian Bridges, Colin Chatham, Tom Roberts, Roy Shearing, Colin Sallis, David Tall.

Donations and support have been given to the following projects during the past Rotary year:
Shelter Box: Box nos. 1947, 2709, 2710 and 10423 were purchased. These all went to places devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
AQUABOX: 4 standard boxes (nos. 41163 - 41166) were purchased; 3 were filled by Kenilworth School pupils and 1 by club members; all were returned to the depot at Wirksworth in time to be sent out to the tsunami disaster area. 6 Aqua 30 boxes (order nos. 14954, 15010 and 15990) were purchased, all of which went to the tsunami disaster area.
Our general contingency budget of £1,500 for Disaster Relief was spent as follows:
Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Darfur appeal £500
Rotary Club of Grenada (school rebuilding in wake of hurricane Ivan) $900 (£500 approx.)
2 (out of 6) Aqua 30 boxes for tsunami disaster relief £500
Additional Tsunami donation: £3,018 collected by club members in Talisman Square, Kenilworth during the first week of January 2005 was handed to the Mayor of Kenilworth for her to donate to the Rotary Club of Dereham, Norfolk’s Willgrass Fund, which has been set up to finance the building of an orphanage and school in Phuket, Thailand.
Children of the Andes: £350 sent.
Hope and Homes for Children: £200 sent
Concern Worldwide (formerly Childrens Aid Direct): £200 sent.
Rotary Jaipur Limb Project: £150 sent (sufficient for 6 Jaipur limbs).
Christian Outreach and Development (CORD): £250 sent.
Uyogo Village Trust: £250 sent.
Farmers Overseas Action Group (FOAG): £200 sent
Tools for Self Reliance: £120 sent.
Pump Aid (water supply for school in eastern Zimbabwe): £250 sent.
Sangam School, India: £120 sent.
Nepal Trust: £200 sent.
Spectacle Collection: Collection has continued through David Sims/Don McConnel. Foundation: Our contingency allocation of £500 has been sent to the Polio Plus Project, but our budgeted contribution of £560 to the main Foundation fund will soon be sent. Jerry Duckett will organise this.
Royal Show: Our contribution of £100 will be made in June 2005. Organisation of the Rotary display is in the hands of Rtn. Peter Roberts.
Sound Seekers (formerly Commonwealth Society for the Deaf) and Sight Savers International: Thanks are due to Jerry Duckett, who is organising a fund raising social in his garden on 22 May 2005, after which these donations will be made. The budgeted allocation is £250 to each charity. [The precise sum of £500 was subsequently raised.}

Casino Night: Thanks are due to Rtn. Roy Shearing for organising a highly entertaining Casino Night at Leek Wootton Village Hall on Saturday evening 9 April 2005 in association with Warwick and Leamington Rotaract Club. The proceeds will go towards the purchase of another Shelter Box

Matching grant scheme with Rotary Club of Ranchi in India: Rtn. Manoj Tiwari has put forward a scheme costing $10,000 in total ($3,000 from Kenilworth) to provide an Accident Helpline Centre on Indian National Highway 33 between Bahragoda and Ranchi. The committee have decided not to get involved with this project as it does not seem to have any educational content or help the poorest most deserving people in that part of India. Rtn. Laura Bowmer has been asked to contact Manoj to see if he can come up with a more acceptable project.

Youth Exchange Student: Dominika Kwiatkowska aged 20 from Warsaw, Poland arrives on 25 June 2005 and is hosted by the Rotary Club of Kenilworth until 7 July, when she will participate in a week-long canal barge trip organised and largely paid for by District 1060 for young people from different countries and backgrounds to work together as a team and qualify for the Rotary Youth Leaders Award. The Rotary Club of Kenilworth will host Dominika for one night on 15 July before she returns to Poland. Thanks are due to Rtns. Anna and Richard Poynter and to Rtn. Philip Southwell and his wife Joy who will provide accommodation for Dominika and to other Rotarians who have offered to show Dominika around during the daytime. The Rotary Club of Kenilworth has paid £100 in advance for Dominika’s food on the canal barge, but we believe the organisers will recover the cost of meals from District when invoices can be produced and we could in theory get the money back.

The chairman thanks all the members of the committee for their support during the year.