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District Grants - closing soon

August 21st 2020

Applications for District grants close on August 21 2020. Details have already been sent to clubs and there
is a pre-qualification requirement that can be completed online. The Grants are available for club projects
here and overseas that are in line with the conditions on the use of Rotary Foundation funds.

This is your chance to use the benefits of Foundation Grants to enhance your fundraising on a locally
designed project. There is minimum form-filling. You describe the project and the proposed budget
and then complete a one page report on its completion.

Further information email Helen Charles
FoundationGrantsChair@Rotary9510.org

ROTARY AUSTRALIA WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE

We all know the Rotary Foundation is used for grants to enable projects to be conducted overseas.
But do we know we have an equivalent organisation that is home-grown that also conducts Rotary projects,
with and without Foundation Grants, here in Australia and our near neighbours?

RAWCS as it is commonly known, has 4 areas of focus:

• Project Volunteers that sends teams of Rotarians and other volunteers overseas usually to undertake
basic building or infrastructure construction employing local labour, in neighbouring developing countries.
• Rotarians Against Malaria which is part of a world–wide push to eliminate the disease. It has a major
project to eliminate malaria from the Solomon Islands and a number of teams have been sent there to
provide infrastructure support.
• Safe Water Saves Lives focuses on clean water, hand washing and sanitation services and again sends
teams and equipment to developing countries in the region.

• Donations in Kind is a mega Op Shop that collects used educational and medical supplies for reuse
primarily in developing countries.. It is based at Edinburgh SA in a series of warehouses and working bees
are held there every Saturday morning. It recently equipped the Wakefield Hospital in Adelaide as a
temporary specialist Covid-19 hospital.

While many of the projects are club-based, individual Rotarians can join any teams or projects of interest.
Most teams work on 10-14 day projects. All programs and projects are tax deductible so donations can be
made and personal expenses incurred on overseas trips are also tax deductible.

For club speakers contact Jerry Casburn jerry@thecasburns.com.au or 0407 646 396

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