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Dec. 2024 – It is with tremendous excitement that I let you know that the District 7690-led Global Grant to provide clean water to a village in Bluefields, Jamaica has been APPROVED!
Thank you to the Rotary clubs of Asheboro, Crescent, Guilford, Kernersville, Mocksville, Southern Guilford, Western Forsyth, and Yadkin County for supporting this effort that will have a tremendous impact on the lives of the families that live in these houses.
Given the Rotary Foundation’s shift toward programs of scale, we hope that this project will serve as a pilot and eventually we can help all of the people in Bluefields or maybe even all the people of Jamaica have reliable access to clean water!
Stay tuned for more details regarding timeline for execution and regarding a call for volunteers to assist hands-on with the effort.
THANK YOU ALL for your support and patience. – Karen Pollard
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| 2025 | Will provide clean water to a village in Bluefields, Jamaica. The shift toward programs of scale, we hope that this project will serve as a pilot and eventually we can help all of the people in Bluefields or maybe even all the people of Jamaica have reliable access to clean water! Thanks to the Rotary clubs of Asheboro, Crescent, Guilford, Kernersville, Mocksville, Southern Guilford, Western Forsyth, and Yadkin County |
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| 2025 | Southern Pines Rotary Club authored a $41,000 global grant (GG2096230) and partnered with the Tijuana Rotary Club to enable remote teaching and remote learning for indigent Mexican children affected by the Covid Pandemic. The training of the teachers occurred via a partnership with the University of Baja California, Tijuana campus, and the students received Chromebooks to effectuate the remote learning. The success of this project resulted in an extension of the grant to a multi-year format after the Covid epidemic abated. We expect the grant to close in the summer of 2025. (Picture) |
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| 2022-23 | Southern Pines Rotary Club authored a $62,000 global grant (GG2118639) and partnered with the Rotary Club of Agra Taj Mahal to expand the operating suite at the Center for Trauma and Joint Replacement, in Agra, and perform more humanitarian orthopedic surgery on children with clubfeet, cerebral palsy, and other congenital and neurologic conditions of the foot and ankle. Southern Pines Rotary Club has partnered with Operation Footprint, an international humanitarian group of surgeons, to carry out the surgeries and train orthopedic residents in Agra. To date, this grant has resulted in 31 children receiving surgery, and this is just the beginning, as the infrastructure is now in place for future surgical missions. (Picture) (Video – Pre) (Video – Post) |
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| 2022 | Southern Pines Rotary Club acquired and delivered two ambulances to a hospital in La Paz, Mexico. (Picture) |
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| 2021 | Southern Pines Rotary Club spearheaded and collected $9,750 for Oxygen Concentrators to be distributed to hospitals to battle the COVID epidemic. (Picture) |
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| The Southern Pines Rotary Club supports the Tijuana Rotary Club’s annual “Tres Reyes” Christmas event, in which hundreds of indigent children are given clothing, gifts and are entertained during the day’s festive event. (Picture) |
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| Several Southern Pines Rotarians have attended and assisted Operation Footprint surgeons at their annual surgical brigade, located at the Hospital San Filipe in Tegucigalpa. Volunteers act as translators for the doctors, as well as with patient logistics. The 2025 brigade will add two Interact students from Pinecrest HS in Southern Pines to join the Tegucigalpa Interact students who act as translators for the doctors during patient screening and scheduling for surgery. (Picture) |
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| 2021 | Spearheaded and supported a multi-club effort in D7690, ultimately led by the Kernersville Rotary, for Vocational Training and Environment Improvement at the Kirindy-Mitea National Park. What began as a graduate student requesting airfare from the Southern Pines Rotary for his return to Madagascar to complete the research ultimately led to a $35,000 multi club D7690 project. The magic of Rotary at work! (Picture) |
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Global Grants – Marc Benard (Video)
Examples of Global GrantsExamples of Areas of ServiceMaternal and Child Health – The Heart Project – GG1531030 Example of Disease Prevention and TreatmentEnhancing Foot and Ankle Surgery Capability in Angra, India – GG2118639 Sample Supplement Attachments Examples of Basic Education & Literacy – Community & Economic Development Sample Supplement Attachments |
Global Grants – Questions & Answers – Marc Benard (Video)
