1. WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE - INTERNATIONAL LITERACY
March 21, 2016
Highlights of Projects

2. Budget and Projects
Budget - $13,000 based on Club Fundraising such as Rose Day that can support International Projects
Projects:
Guatemala Literacy - GLP -
Wheels for Learning - RC Gravenhurst
South Africa Resource Centre - RC Cape of Good Hope
San Andreas Literacy - RC San Andreas
Uganda Clean Water - RC Slippery Rock

3. Guatemala Literacy -GLP Lead - Colin Thacker
$464,292 Total Funding with $4000 CDN from RC North Bay
Global Grant # , hosted by the Rotary Clubs of Valle de Guatemala (D-4250) & Glenview Sunrise, IL. (D-6440)
This grant is funded by 106 clubs and 25 districts in 6 countries:
$166,381 Club/district cash contributions
$107,360 District Designated Funds (DDF)
$190,551 TRF match
$464,292 = TOTAL GLOBAL GRANT FUNDS

4. GLP
Who Benefits?
40 Culture of Reading Program (CORP) schools with 157 teachers and 4,100 students
11 textbook schools with 55 teachers and 917 students
2 computer centres with 2 teachers and 378 students
Provides gift of literacy, education, and technological training for a total of 5,400 indigenous children and young people in the Western Highlands of Guatemala.

5. Bill, Marlene and Colin on the GLP Tour

6. Wheels for Learning- WFL Lead - Bill White
RC Gravenhurst Club Project for 5 years -
RC North Bay has supported WFL for many years - $
Transportation is major barrier to education for poor, rural children who often have to walk more than 10 Km to school
Rotary Wheels for Learning Team 2016 is distributed 850 bicycles in four provinces of Cambodia; Battambang, Siem Reap, Takeo, and Koh Kong.
In Baval District province, at the school/village, 110 bicycles were donated in the name of Rotary Club of North Bay

7. Wheels for Learning

8. South Africa- Resource Centres Lead - Ken Peake
Projects sponsored by RC Cape of Good Hope
Funding was 50/50 between Rotary and Businesses - RC NB $
Provides support and counselling in a very poor Township with high rates of poverty and drug abuse
Direct supports to abused women, meals for children and safe haven for study/homework
Plaque on Centre recognizes RC North Bay

9. South Africa - Resource Centre
Old Centre
New Building

10. San Andreas Literacy and Education Lead - Ron Farrell
With RC San Andreas, provide school supplies to low income children
Helps poor families overcome barriers to education
Focus in 2016 was on aid to children of inmates
Funding $1500

11. San Andreas Literacy and Education

12. San Andreas Literacy and Education Lead - Ron Farrell
Plaque in Recognition of Rotary Club of North Bay

13. Uganda Water Project Leads- Ken Peake, Bill White
Slippery Rock Rotary and the Rotary Club of Lukaya, Uganda developed this project which supports the expansion of the Mustard Seed Academy and provides clean water to near-by residents in Lukaya. The Global Grant provided:
1. Drilling of two wells
2. Water distribution system
3.Wastewater management
4. Rain water storage
5. Toilet block construction.
Total Funding as a Rotary International Grant - $137,500

14. Uganda Water Project Leads- Ken Peake, Bill White
Before, Hauling Water was a Daily Task for Children
Estimated that 2000 persons benefit daily from this Project
First Graduates from School with upgraded Water and Sewer that provides water to surrounding Community