On Saturday 15th July 2017 at Darwen Mosque we have been invited to an Eid Celebrations in which all are invited to discover our local Muslim heritage and develop relationships of understanding, goodwill and peace. This will be held from 3pm-6pm. RSVP to John East, International Chairman.
Rotary Club of Darwen is most active in supporting both local, national and international groups and individuals.
We have a crisis team that will immediately respond to both local, national and international appeals with:
Shelter Boxes
Shoe Boxes
Polio
Civic disasters both nationally and internationally
We encourage speakers from various agencies and other rotary clubs that have bespoke projects e.g. Nepal Earthquake.
Locally we have held a African and Afghan Nights supporting Asylum and Refugees in Darwen and in Saturday 23rd September 2016 we supported an Arabian Night at St Edwards, Parish Hall from 7pm
We have supported asylum seekers and refugees within our local community who have proffesional quailifications in gaining voluntary, employment & vocational opportunities and given financial grants accordingly.
In the Spring of 2018 we will be supporting an Asian Night – date yet to be arranged.
We
donated an Autoclave – a large sterilising machine for the Maua Methodist
Hospital in Kenya via an old Darwen contact Barbara Dickinson who has a Nursing
Tutor at the hospital and spends six month in England and the rest in Kenya.
We sent a donation to support Bee keeping in Ethiopia
more 6,4OO books sent to the children of Gambia
more Darwen Rotary has been collecting books from local primary schools to be sent to The Gambia
more Recently Darwen Rotary agreed to fund two shelter boxes to help out in the relief effort following the earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi, typhoon on Mangkhut in the Philippines and the earthquake in Lombok
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