Since it started in 1917 with a $26.50 endownment, The Rotary Foundation has to date given out $3 billion to humanitarian efforts worldwide.
The Rotary Foundation is today tackling some of humanities greatest challenges:
- Fighting disease
- Supporting education
- Providing clean water and sanitation
- Growing local economies
- Saving mothers and children
- Promoting peace
- Protecting the Environment
Invicta and The Rotary Foundation
We contribute to both the Rotary Foundation Annual Fund and the Rotary Foundation Polioplus Fund each year.
In return, we benefited from a Rotary Foundation matching grant for:
- the purchase of mosquito nets to combat malarial infections in a village in Assam (2005)
- the construction of a water pan for collecting rainwater in Kianjai, Kenya (2018)
- linings for rainwater tanks in Kenya (2019)
Locally, we have benefitted from District Grants which have enabled us to:
- purchase musical instruments for the New House Youth Centre (2015)
- help build a sensory garden for the Orchard Centre (2016)
- provide two bench seats for Milton Creek Country Park (2017)
- provide a refurbished kitchen including a new cooking range at Phoenix House (2018)
- provide shelving equipment for Sittingbourne Foodbank (2019)