| Chairman
- Alun Rees
Committee members - Peter Gardner, Bryn Button,
Maldwyn James, Tony Landeg, Bill Jones, Ian Rees, Eric Robinson,
Godfrey Hill, Steve Lawrence.
The committee's
function is to raise the awareness and effectiveness of international
and world community service provided by districts and clubs. It's
aim is to identify and suitable causes and projects and take the
responsibility for raising the supporting funding.
AGM
2009/10 report - 27th April 2010 (Chairman Peter Gardner)
Pig Roast at Nantcellan
- The year started with the Pig Roast in July at Nantcellan ,
a successful day with a total income of £2017- 20 which
after deduction of expenses of £357-71 gave a profit of
£1659- 49. This was shared almost equally between Rotary
and Inner Wheel. Our share went towards the club’s contribution
to the Polio Plus project.
The Shelter Box project - The year brought mayhem
and destruction to many areas of the world from natural disasters,
The Club has responded by sending a total of £!500 sufficient
for three boxes. In addition Geraint took the lead in liasing
with three primary schools Plas Crug, Penparcau and Comins Coch
to raise money sufficient for their own box. This was not a case
of just squeezing money from innocent children but to form the
basis of an educational project in following their numbered box
to it’s final destination and possibly beyond.
The Malawi water aid project - In November, Bryn
discovered that 8 locally financed bore holes had found no water
and it was probable that our chance of success was the same. Since
then he has concentrated on the alternative project of the temperature
control of the Chiradzulu Hospital Pharmacy requiring new refrigerators,air
conditioners and the construction of a false ceiling to reduce
the spacial volume to be cooled, to avoid damage to medication.
I have exchanged e-mails with him. He has after some delay he
has received a quotation which was raised a week later due to
an “error” on the first one and is now £20,994-
69. Bryn is now looking elsewhere. I have suggested to him that
at this high cost we are going to need sound justification for
the project to be accepted for a matching grant at local , District
and Central stages .I asked him whether there was authenticated
evidence of drugs and vaccines being damaged in the past , or
the inability to use either of these knowing that they would be
damaged by the high temperature. He agrees and will investigate
AGM
2008/9 report - 28th April 2009 (Chairman Geraint Thomas)
Pig Roast at Nantcellan - Sunday 27th July 2008
was a glorious sunny day, giving the International committee a
wonderful kick-off to the year’s activities with the Pig
Roast hosted through the kindness of Peter and Celia Gardner at
Nantcellan. The surplus of £1569 was shared equally between
Rotary and Inner Wheel.
Polio Plus - In conjunction with Foundation we
undertook to respond to the appeal for funds towards Polio Plus.
Two signs were put up on the Rotary Wishing Well to inform the
public that the money donated would go to Polio Plus and the response
has been very encouraging. The Treasurer informs me that the collections
up to the end of March was £690.02.
Aqua Boxes - The committee decided to purchase
3 Aqua
Boxes during the year ; an ‘Aqua 30’ box
containing 30 filtration units at a price of £250 and two
Standard boxes (£50) filled with articles provided by Rotarians.
These boxes are always in demand wherever there are disasters
and in countries that lack clean water and basic sanitation.
Christmas Puddings Appeal - The Cwmbran Rotary
Club still run their Christmas Pudding appeal in aid of ‘Adopt
a Minefield’ 36 puddings were sold to members at £10
each thus £360 went from this club to the Adopt a Minefield
Appeal again this year.
Shelterboxes - These wonderful shelter
boxes of essential equipment to help a group of 10
people survive for 6 months following any kind of catastrophe
or disaster were the brainchild of a Rotarian from Helston-Lizard
in Cornwall, - Tom Henderson a former Royal Navy search and rescue
diver. The boxes have helped well over half a million people to
survive in all sorts of natural and other disasters. I am so pleased
that as a committee we undertook to purchase 1 box from this club
for £490 as well as encouraging staff and pupils from Ysgol
Gymraeg, Penglais and Penweddig to purchase a box. The Rotary
box has not yet been allocated but we will be told fairly soon
Schools 4 all in Africa - This was the RIBI chosen
charity for this year and as a committee we decided to aim for
a sum of £1000 to aid the
Schools 4 all in Africa work
in Uganda through The Leonard Cheshire Disability Charity to provide
the opportunity for 1000 disabled children to attend school for
the first time in their lives. As a club we have managed to raise
£1235. We will have a report from the Leonard Cheshire Disability
as to how the work is progressing in Uganda within the next 6
weeks.
AGM
2007/8 annual report - 29 April 2008
Pig Roast at Nantcellan - The year got off to
a good start with a dry day for the Pig Roast hosted by Peter
and Celia Gardner at Nantcellan on Sunday, 5 August 2007. The
event was run in conjunction with the Inner Wheel and a net surplus
of £1,204.34 was raised to be shared between Water Aid (Rotary)
and Born Free of HIV (Inner Wheel). Thanks to Peter and Celia
Gardner for hosting together with John Bradshaw and Gareth Williams
for taking charge of the spit.
Adopt a Minefield - 3 dozen Christmas Puddings
were purchased for sale within the Club again this year. Unfortunately,
7 puddings had to be returned because the seals were defective
and not airtight. The net proceeds amounted to £295, including
a donation of £5. £3 from the sale of every pudding
went to the Adopt a Minefield
Charity. The £92 raised in this way (including the £5
donation) was match funded by the UN. The project (run by the
Cwmbran Vale Club) was expected to raise £15k this year
which, together with match funding from the UN, meant that a combined
total of £30k would be raised to support mine clearance
work in Bosnia. Thanks to Emlyn Watkin and Colin Eagles for collecting
the money.
Aqua Boxes - An "Aqua
30" Box containing 30 filtration units (£250) and a
Standard Aqua Box (£50) filled with items given by Rotarians,
were purchased. Thanks to Colin Bancroft who lead on this project
and to all Rotarians for their generosity in contributing items
to fill the second box. With the frequency of natural disasters
around the world these boxes are in constant demand and are shipped
out by Rotary on an almost industrial scale.
Collective Matching Grant Project - The Club
contributed £194 to the Collective Matching Grant Project
organised by AG Tony Park for Clubs in Zone 1. The project, with
the Rotary Club of Mussoorie (India), provides funding for school
uniforms, stationery, Hepatitis A vaccinations, Haemoglobin tests
and iron supplements for all 975 students in the 12 primary schools
of Mussoorie, Uttaranchal, India. The award is for INR 623,200
(equivalent to US$ 15,200). With match funding, the total grant
budget for the project is INR 1,379,978 (equivalent to US$ 33,658).
William Williams’s Run
On Sunday, 9 December 2007, William successfully completed the
10k run organised by the Aberystwyth Athletic Club in association
with Macmillan Cancer Support and the Cambrian News. William completed
the run in under an hour; a remarkable achievement. The total
amount raised was £1,291 plus Gift Aid (28% on eligible
donations). Cheques amounting to £1,250 were given to Sue
Williams of the Aberystwyth and District Chernobyl Children’s
Project at a presentation evening held at the Richmond Hotel on
Tuesday, 11 March. A further cheque will be given to the project
when the amount of Gift Aid has been finalized and received by
the Treasurer.
Silent Auctiion - held at the RAFA Club on Friday,
7 March raised a total of £688.85. Rotary Clubs in RIBI
are sponsoring a Water Aid
project to provide clean water and sanitation for 10,000 people
in Tanzania. The proceeds from the Silent Auction are to be sent
to Water Aid as our contribution towards to cost of the project.
Many thanks to Bill and Mildred Jones for taking the lead on this
event.
Social Evening and Book Swap - The final event
of this Rotary Year for the International Committee is a Social
Evening and Book Swap (Cheese, Wine and Nibbles) to be held at
the home of Colin and Delyth Fletcher between 7.00 and 9.00 pm
on Thursday, 22 May. Part of the proceeds will go to make up the
Club’s donation to Water Aid to £1,000. Any amount
raised over and above that required for this purpose will be put
towards the Rotary
Polio Appeal (an average of $1.000 has been requested from
each club for each of the three years from 2008 to 2010 to match
the $100m grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to
Rotary Foundation for polio eradication).
We should
also remember Richard Francis, a member of the International Committee,
who sadly died earlier in the year.
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