Grand Island and Area Projects

Major Projects

  • Construction of a Weather Protective Entryway at the Nike Base Golden Age Center
  • Construction and Maintenance of the Picnic Shelter at Veterans’ Park on Bedell Road
  • Construction of the Rotary Town Hall Gazebo

Annual Projects

  • Providing Scholarships for High School Seniors
  • Grand Island High School Interact Club Sponsorship
  • Rotary/PTSA Student of the Month Honors for High School Students
  • Providing Financial Support For the Abate School and Niagara Falls Library, the Reality Café, and the Grand Island Neighbors Foundation
  • "Undie Sunday": collecting "undies" for the City Mission and Cornerstone Manor
  • Sponsoring a Child at Camp Blue Skies (a Grief Counseling Camp)
  • Salvation Army “Bell Ringing”
  • Annual Rotary Youth Leadership Award
  • “Adopt-A-Highway” Cleanup along Beaver Island Parkway
  • Planting White Oaks and Daffodils To Beautify The Island

International Projects

  • Group Study Exchange
  • International Student Exchange
  • Hospital Construction in Nepal
  • Bolivia
    • “Chagas” Project (fighting Chagas disease through construction of 222 new houses)
    • Construction of Greenhouses (raising farm productivity 200%)
    • School Renovation
    • Provision Of Clean Water To Ten Rural Communities
  • Support for
    • Water for Life Wells-For-Haiti
    • the Wheelchair Foundation, and
    • the Rotary/WHO PolioPlus Worldwide Polio Eradication Campaign

 

 

International Major Projects

 

Support to Hospital in hills of Eastern Nepal

             

Nepal, high in the Himalayas, home of Mt Everest and with an ‘exotic’ capital, Katmandu, has a turbulent recent history and a desperate need for improved medical care. Rotary Club of Grand Island, N.Y., working with Himalayan Health Care, a US based NGO, and with support from other neighboring Rotary Clubs and District 7090, provided partial funding for a hospital at Ilam. (photo of hospital) Our awareness was raised by a Grand Island Rotary Member, Dr. Dave Johnson, who had seen the site and its needs. Assurance that people in Ilam would support the project.

 

 

In addition to having a Nepal Rotary Club involved, erased any misgivings about our financial support. The project began with initial financing in 2003, hospital dedication in 2004 and additional support from Rotary Club of Grand Island, N.Y. and Rotary International to build a simple waste water treatment system and provide electric power backup in 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

The 24 bed hospital served over 12,000 patients in 2007 and provided for safe, clean, delivery of over 200 babies in that year. (picture of bed with quilts)

 

 

 

 

Building wells and Bridge in rural Ethiopia

             Rotary Club of Grand Island is raising funds in conjunction with area Clubs, Rotary District 7090 and other organizations to have wells and a bridge built in rural Ethiopia, all in conjunction with the Finot Rotary Club (an Addis Ababa suburb)and the Ethiopia Anti-Malaria Association. Many small communities in rural Ethiopia have no clean water supply and no direct access to the developed towns, particularly during the rainy season.

                                                                             

Providing funds for equipment and supplies on these projects, but insisting the local community provide labor for actual construction, insures that they will maintain and appreciate the project. Ethiopians must also train the locals on the need / benefits of using the clean water once it is available. ‘Do-good’ projects just dropped on a traditional community do not succeed until there is local education on their benefits.

It is this involvement with local Rotary Clubs that has made so many Rotary International programs successful around the world.

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