INTERNATIONAL AND FOUNDATION
Rotary is a world wide organisation and Crickhowell Rotary Club plays its part in supporting international projects.
Our International and Foundation team consider how to best respond to the needs of the global community
Foundation is the worldwide rotary Charity and each Rotarian makes a contribution through the Club. One of Rotary's major successes has been to substantially eradicate polio across the world in partnership with the Bill Gates Foundation.
We have assisted with
- Emergency Disaster Provision through the provision of practical provision of aid such as Shelter Boxes
- DoctorBank: supporting doctors who, in their spare time, give their services free of charge, to disadvantaged areas from war, famine or poverty.
- Marys Meals: a charity who provide food for hungry schoolchildren in Africa allowing them to learn and break the cycle of poverty
- JaipurLimb: who provide prosthetic limbs for people affected by poverty or war
- SmileTrain: where plastic surgeons offer their services free of charge to correct cleft palates and other facial disfigurements which blight childrens lives in the poorest areas.
- Wateraid: who provide water and sanitation to areas in poverty
- Lend With Care : We lend money to individuals in the developing world through this organisation
- Sight Savers: This organisation provides help to impoverished people in danger of losing sight
We have also developed a special relationship with a rural school in Kenya and have contributed to practical works such as supporting individual pupils.
We recently fundraised locally for Ukranian refugees living in the area