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Kal Rotarians also support international projects and initiatives, such as End Polio, through club fundraisers or through donations to The Rotary Foundation. See more at Link to Foundation.
In October 2020, Kal Rotarians, friends and family are travelling to the village of April, Nepal to help build two houses for this community that was devastated by the 2015 earthquake. To find out more about this trip and how you can help click here…
2019 - 2020 Donations
| International Donation Recipient | Year | Description | Area of Focus |
| Devi Jal Kumari School, Gorkha Nepal | 2015 – 2019 | -Built a two story school serving 225 students -built two toilet buildings at the school
2019 –funding provided for electrical connections to the school and to purchase desks, chairs and bookshelves.
| Supporting Education
Providing Clean Water, Sanitation and Hygiene |
| Frances G. Cosco Foundation | 2019 | 2019 -provision of a latrine to serve an 800 student school in Bezawit, Ethiopia
2020 – Furnish classrooms in a school at the Tis Abay primary school in Amhara region of Ethiopia. We are a part of a $300,000 project which is doubling the size of the school, building latrines etc. So basically, a new school in the area for about 1,200 children allowing for education from grade 1-8 instead of only 1-4. | Supporting Education
Providing Clean Water, Sanitation and Hygiene |
| Clean Water for Haiti | 2018 – 2019 | 2018 – 100 bio sand filters for rural families
2019 – 50 more bio sand filters and funds to replace an old truck that delivers the filters to rural communities
2020 – funding for 4 motorcycles which will allow the technicians to reach the rural areas they service and do regular maintenance checks.
2020 – 50 more bio sand water filters
| Providing Clean Water, Sanitation and Hygiene |
| International Donation Recipient | Year | Description | Area of Focus |
| Kiva Micro Loans | 2015 to present | Funds to support primarily women’s businesses in developing countries | Growing Local economies |
| Africa | 2019 | -fund to provide “hippo rollers” for 15 communities in Africa. | Providing Clean Water, Sanitation and Hygiene |
| Zimbabwe Project | 2019 | -support the building of a community agricultural garden | Saving Mothers and Children
Growing Local economies |
| Gleaners | 2019 | 2019 – funds to assist the purchase of a new air dryer | Saving Mothers and Children
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| Rotary Club of Costalegre, Mexico | 2020 | 2020 – Rotary Club in Mexico – building a school kitchen and mess hall eating area for 200 students at the Kinder School in Costalegre, Mexico. This is a partnership with the Rotary club of Costalegre. | Saving Mothers and Children
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| Rotary International Project Support | 2019 | 2019 – Funding to support the construction of three classrooms at St. Matthews Primary School in Pomona, Stann Creek, Belize, and Central America. | Supporting Education
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| Olive Branch for Children Organization | 2020 | This money will seed a gas stove project to replace in-home wood burning stoves with gas top stoves, freeing up people (almost exclusively girls) from spending hours a day foraging for firewood. This will allow the organization to set up a distribution center in Mbeya, S.E. Tanzania and create a self- sufficient small business in the area. | Growing Local economies
Promoting health and education |