TO: All District 5960 Rotarians
FROM: Patricia McCleese, Margie Horning, and Peggy Strom
We are one week away from wrapping up the 2023-24 SHARE THE LOVE campaign on February 29^th.  If we work together, we can make this year’s campaign giving one of the best ever!

As we talk about The Rotary Foundation, it’s important to understand how our clubs are using Foundation funds to impact lives in our communities and around the world. This year, clubs in our district were awarded $117,450 for district grants and $97,250 for global grants:

District Grants

• Benches & an ADA table in a very busy community park                                  $ 2,950
• STEM programming at CPY for elementary & middle-school students             $ 4,460
• Soccer pitch at a Cambodian school serving students in with special
• needs and experiencing extreme poverty                                                              $ 5,200  
• Food inventory for Open Cupboard food pantry                                                   $ 4,120
• Read to Feed elementary reading program                                                            $ 4,950
• Books for South Sudan universities, small-town libraries, law libraries, &   
•  medical facilities                                                                                                         $10,800
• School furniture & supplies shipped from Owatonna to schools in
• Kilimanjaro Tanzania                                                                                                     $ 5,140
• Three boreholes for three schools in Nigeria                                                           $11,710
• ADA picnic tables, benches & trash receptacles for pickleball court                   $ 2,530
• Commemorative century clock & time capsule at local historical society          $ 6,740
• Technology hub in a remote part of Kenya                                                              $11,880
• Computer lab for a school for orphaned children in Uganda                             $11,880
• Underwater camera system for local swim teams                                                   $ 4,750
• Imagine One reading program for pre-kindergarten children                                $ 4,500
• Downtown walking history & industry tour using 10 informational kiosks         $ 4,500
• H2Open Door Wall Spring water filtration systemin Peru                                      $ 8,910
• Community Center library in Bugodi Village Uganda                                              $ 9,900
• Upgrades to playground equipment at Rotary Beach Park                                    $ 2,530

Global Grants

• Guatemala literacy project – 180 teachers, 2 schools, 1,496 students Enrolled 21 communities – total project cost $453,038                           $12,250                                                                  
• Phase II Greenhouses for Huilloc, Peru to grow food, nutrition & futures for 20 families  - total project cost $30,250                                           $10,000
• Water, sanitation & hygiene for 4 rural schools near Pune, India – 1,500 Students - total project cost $77,400                                                      $25,000                                                                
• Providing Hope to Disadvantaged Children in Cambodia – refitting a classroom & teacher support & training that includes 5 teachers from MN going to Cambodia – 500+ students & teachers – total project cost $92,000                                                                                                                                                                                      $25,000                         
• Water project in Bugusege, Uganda –total project cost $129,791                                                                                                                                     $25,000

You can help us continue our IMPACT in communities around the world with your donation this February. For certain levels of giving, we are offering matching point incentives for Paul Harris Fellow awards:
 

• $100 - $364 = 1 to 1 Recognition Point Match
• $365 = 635 Points Match To Paul Harris Fellow
• Sign up for Rotary Direct @ $30+/month = Receive 500 points

 

Please be sure to let me know as soon as you have a program set up so I can get it on our schedule. If you need a zoom link please let me/Joe E. know that as well.   Thanks!