Foundation

Home page of our clubs "Foundation" (The Rotary Charity) Committee


Foundation

Welcome to the home page of our club Foundation Committee. The Rotary Foundation is the Rotary's own Charity and is supported by all Rotarians. It is the biggest non-government fund in the world. This provides a source of funding that Rotary clubs and Rotary districts all over the world can draw on to undertake projects in one of the following areas:  water and sanitation, basic education and literacy, maternal and child health and economic and community developments. 

The Rotary Foundation initiated the Polio+ programme in 1985 which undertook to eradicate the Polio virus from this planet. By July of 2010 Rotary had committed more than $900 million to global polio eradication. The fight is nearly won and polio is now endemic in only 4 countries in the world. In 2011 Wilkin Tiptree joined with Rotary in a UK nationwide campaign and donated specially labelled bottles of  their Tomato Ketchup as a way of raising money for this cause. By 2014 Polio was only endemic in 3 countries Nigeria, Afganistan and Pakistan. A target goal of 2018 as been set to free the wold of Polio.

Click on the blue tabs to the right for committee activities or contact our Foundation committee by following the contact link at the bottom of the page.

 

 

Foundation sub-pages:

Poster on Oxford Circus Station London Underground

Polio Eradication

more Polio Eradication down to the last three countries

Rotary's got a Sauce!

more The club takes delivery of Ketchup donated by Tiptree

CATCHUP ON KETCHUP

more Some menu ideas for your ketchup

Alternative uses for sauce

more Thinking about Christmas presents then why not do as I am doing and give bottles of your PolioPlus Tomato ketchup. I am giving them together with the following sheet - Hazel

Computers in Sri Lanka

more

Purple is the Colour

more Rotary Day in Priory Meadow