International Service Committee 2007/2008
Committee Chair: Heather Aked

Club Goals

To participate in International projects to do with Health, Literacy, and Clean Water and to fund and complete at least two of those in the next year.

Committee Goals

• To meet the club goals – as stated above
• To ensure that the Exchange Students’ time in Canada is fun, safe and rewarding
• To work towards finding, promoting and supporting an Ambassadorial scholar
• To continue support and promote Rotary International’s goals for the eradication of Polio
• To continue to participate and support Project Unity
• To commit to the continued success of the work/support that OBR has already done with the APU Malawi Girls School
• To commit to supporting other international projects such as the Aware Pre-School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Shelter Box Canada
• To review and consider new requests for international projects
• To have fun participating and to feel rewarded at the end of the year with respect to the time and effort made to this committee

PROJECTS

1) Malaria Project for CRCID

• Project sponsored by Canadian Rotary Collaboration for International Development
• Request for pledges from D5020 clubs to assist with the prevention of malaria in Tanzania - through the provision of treated mosquito netting
• Tanzania is a central African Country on the southern end of Lake Victoria. Malaria cases take up over 85% of their hospital space. Over 100,00, mainly pregnant women and children under 5 die each year from malaria
• The International Committee has put forward to the Executive to pledge $10/member towards this project

2) Malawi Project Matching Grant

• We have requested $4,000 for this matching grant project to put a bore hole in at the APU Secondary School in Malawi

3) Exchange Student

• Ole, our exchange student, has arrived and started school at Oak Bay High - please take some time to spend some time with Ole - it can be as simple as having her over for dinner.

4) Shelter Box

• The committee is looking at sponsoring a box for earthquake survivors in Peru.