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WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD APPLICATION 2006- 2007 ROTARY CLUB OF REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA PART I - PROFILE OF CLUB AND ITS WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM

1. Number of members as of July 1, 2006: ___52 Number of members as of project date: ___57

Number of Rotarians involved: __80

2. Number of Members actively participating in world community service projects. Note: This could add up to more than total membership - one member participating in three projects will count as "3".

80 Rotarians have participated with the World Wide Services projects

3. Number of World Community Service projects. 5

4. Total dollars spent. $ 57,000 5. List Rotarians in your club who have visited a Rotary project in another country

this year or have attended a Project Fair. Give the Rotarians name and the country visited.

Rod Toews – Chairman of the International Committee of the Rotary Club of Redwood City. Lilongwe, Malawi, Africa

6. Have you had a past or present Exchange Student or Scholar as a speaker at

your Club this Rotary Year? [ ] Yes [X ] No

Date Name of Student School attended Country

7. Did your Club submit a candidate(s) for any of the Scholarship Grants available

this Rotary Year?

[ ] Yes [X] No

Name of Applicant Grant Sought

8. Has a member of your Club acted as a counselor for a visiting Foundation Scholar?

[ ] Yes [ X ] No Not recently

Rotarian Foundation Scholar

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WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD APPLICATION (Continued) 2006- 2007

ROTARY CLUB OF REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA PART II - MEETING PROGRAMS

List programs devoted to World Community Service in order of excellence. Describe program in one or two short sentences.

DATE DESCRIPTION

10/24/06 Javier Pena, USD Drug Enforcement Agent, told us about the

current efforts to fight drug trafficking in our communities by stopping the drugs from leaving other countries. Javier focused on his work in Columbia for nine years and his work in bringing down the drug baron Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellin Cartel. He showed some footage of the Escobar Empire and what lead to his demise.

8/22/06 Mark Flegel, District Governor, told us how a Rotoplast trip

changed his life and perceptions of Rotary. He went to Vietnam and was quartermaster for the group. He related how people in third world countries shun the deformed children. The surgeons change their lives by transforming their lips and palates. He also told us how the Rotary’s Polio Plus program has reduced polio cases worldwide by 99.8%.

7/25/ 06 The International Committee’s Auction Fundraiser at the Sequoia

Yacht Club in Redwood City. The proceeds from this fundraiser will support the Redwood City Rotary Club efforts internationally.

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WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD APPLICATION (Continued) 2006- 2007

ROTARY CLUB OF REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA PART III - PROJECTS (INDICATE WHICH ONES ARE NEW THIS YEAR)

PARTNERS OF HOPE, LILONGWE, MALAWI AFRICA

Malawians with HIV/AIDS die alone in deplorable conditions or in the care of family who are helpless to alleviate their suffering. But the true measure of HIV/AIDS is not limited to those who are infected. The pandemic literally impacts every Malawian. Family units crumble as one or more parents die, contributing to the escalating orphan population, now known to exceed 800,000. In the absence of one or more parents, many orphans are raised outside of traditional society; cultural norms and values that would have informed their lives are lost, leaving children ill equipped to duplicate family life. Children with sick parents find themselves prematurely thrust into the role of care giver placing them selves at considerable health risk. As teachers die, schools become overcrowded or close down altogether. Girls who drop out of school often become prostitutes and boys join gangs.

The Redwood City Rotary Club partner with the Partners of Hope to assist in rescuing babies left to die on fields and on city streets. The infants are left to die most often by mother that have HIV/AIDS and cannot afford them. They are left there by others because of the fear of AIDS, the lack of understanding about how the disease is spread, and strong social stigmas. Partners of Hope rescue the infants and bring them to a crisis center where they are cared for until homes can be found for them.

The Redwood City Rotary Club donated $4,000 towards an additional nursery, so that Partners of HOPE could rescue more babies.

The Redwood City Rotary Club also donated $6,000 towards the training of 9-10 year old children who have become parents to their younger siblings because of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Before this epidemic, the children would have gone to live with other family. Now they are abandoned by family and friends and forced to live alone with the older sibling raising the younger ones. This project was also with the Partners of Hope in Malawi.

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15 Rotarians 35 non-Rotarians Over 100 babies and 300 siblings will be touched by these funds. $10,000 by our Club

BLOOD COUNT MACHINE, HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC LILONGWE, MALAWI AFRICA

This year’s Rotary Club of Redwood City World Community project is based on International Committee Chairman Rod Toew’s visit to Lilongwe, Malawi to meet with the Lilongwe Rotary Club leaders to establish a partnership in a project for Lilongwe. The proposed project will be the purchase a blood count machine to aid the Hope Medical Clinic, Lilongwe, Malawi. The blood count machine will be used in the HIV/AIDS Clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi for their Laboratory support program.

The Lilongwe Rotary Club will be participating with minimal financing. They will be supervising the project as it moves forward on their end. Our Club and our local community sponsored the entire project as we was unable to get a matching grant from Rotary International through District 5150 because we couldn’t find a club in Malawi that is in good stranding. On Tuesday July 25 2006, the Redwood City Rotary Club organized a fundraiser to raise funds for this project. The fundraiser was an auction and was held at the Sequoia Yacht club at Seaport Village in Redwood City. Over 45 people enjoyed an evening of great food, variety of drinks, fellowship and the opportunity to bid at our auction for tremendous prizes from wines, there were two Train weekend excursions for two, box of Cigars etc. The evening contributed $7000 to our Club's efforts in Lilongwe, Malawi. The weather was balmy and it gave us a wonderful opportunity to get to know our club members and guests from the community.

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25 Rotarians 60 non-Rotarians Over 2,000 people will be touched by this machine. $20,000 by our Club

GUATEMALA WATER PROJECT (NEW)

Redwood City Rotary donated $1500 to Menlo Park Rotary Club towards the Guatemala providing water, sanitation and education to Rio Blanco and Colonia Choatulum, Guatemala two villages whose water supply was demolished by hurricane Stan last year. It will impact 400 villagers and is due to be completed June 2007.

Based on the facts the Menlo Park Rotarians gathered during that 10- day trip in June, the local organization has set out to raise nearly $35,000 to provide clean water to Rio Blanco and Choatulum, each with a population of about 400 people. Those two villages were chosen because they have the most infrastructures in place. The water project calls for installing pipes from two nearby lakes up the hill to the villages, and to eventually provide townspeople with individual UV purification buckets — a new, easy-to-use technology that will allow residents to filter their water after it’s delivered to their homes. Rotary will also supply latrines and a gray-water disposal system, if all goes according to plan.

To the people in the two towns, it’s clear that there’s a problem. Women complain that the clothes they wash in the river often come out brown. They even have a saying: “We don’t drink our water, we chew it.

52 Redwood City Rotarians 16 non-Rotarians

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400 villagers will be impacted by this project. $1,500 by our Club

Clean Water Project Sichili Mission Hospital in Zambia (NEW) .

Sichili is at the centre of an area of over 15,000 sq. km, in southwest Zambia, 200 km from the town of Livingstone. This vast territory, crossed by the River Zambesi, is inhabited by the Lozi tribe, who occupy traditional huts and live by stock-raising, hunting and fishing in a land that is for the most part sandy and unsuitable for agriculture.

The Sichili Mission Hospital is of great importance to this area as it is the only medical facility available in a vast area of 150 x 100 km, and the only place of assistance for over 50,000 persons. The hospital run by Zambian doctors and nurses doesn’t have a proper means of getting clean water. This project will provide the hospital with a clean water system consisting of piping the water from the water source and into a UV purification system that will allow the water to be purified on a larger scale after it gets to the hospital.

The Zambia Rotary Club will be participating with minimal financing. They will be supervising the project as it moves forward on their end. Our Club and our local community will be sponsoring the major funding for this project. Our Club hopes to get matching grants from Rotary International through District 5150.The application process is underway. It is not clear if funding will be available this year; however our club will pursue this project through next year if required.

The total cost of the project is $25,000.

12 Rotarians physically participated in this project 50 Non-Rotarians

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Approximately 1,000 will be touched by these funds.

Funding: $25,000 Pending Grant Application Pending as of 3/24/07

PROJECT AMIGO, MEXICO (NEW)

The Redwood City Rotary Club has worked with Project Amigo many times in the past on building projects for Colima. This new program is to enable the poor children of Colima to achieve their highest potential by providing educational opportunities, material support, enrichment activities, and medical and dental services not otherwise available to them. Redwood City Rotary Club will sponsor children in school.

2 Rotarians physically participated in this project 70 Non-Rotarians Approximately 3 youth will be touched by these funds. Funding: $500

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WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD APPLICATION (Continued) 2006- 2007

ROTARY CLUB OF REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA PART IV - SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

BLOOD COUNT MACHINE, HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC LILONGWE, MALAWI AFRICA

ROTARY MEETING IN LILONGWE, MALAWI, AFRICA

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CRISIS NURSERY PARTNERS OF HOPE, LILONGWE, MALAWI AFRICA

DOCTOR EXAMING A CHILD AT CRISIS NURSERY

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CRISIS NURSERY PARTNERS OF HOPE, LILONGWE, MALAWI AFRICA

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SIBLING PARENT TRAINING - PARTNERS OF HOPE, LILONGWE, MALAWI AFRICA

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BLOOD COUNT MACHINE, HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC LILONGWE, MALAWI AFRICA (NEW)

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Quote for Blood Count Machine

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GUATEMALA WATER PROJECT (NEW)

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GUATEMALA WATER PROJECT (NEW)

Water specialist Florence Cassaseuce, left, and Dr. Mark Campbell test the water at a sink in Xejuyu, near Lake Atitlan, as a boy from the house

looks on. The pipes in the village are only two and a half inches thick, so each family gets water for only two hours at a time every two days.

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A bucket of silty drinking water in the village of Choatulum, where Rotary Club funds will be used to install pipes to a clean water source.

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The river where residents of the villages of Choatulum and Rio Blanco go for their drinking water

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Clean Water Project Sichili Mission Hospital in Zambia

The medical staff

Sichili Mission Hospital in Zimbia

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Patients waiting outside of Sichili Mission Hospital

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PROJECT AMIGO (NEW)