Taken from the Rotary Club of Hillsborough’s website:
Rotary of Hillsborough
At recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Hillsborough President Doug Bridges presented to Ted Grant, Head of the “Children of Hope” Foundation, a donation of $1000 to support the work of the Foundation in Minkinduri, Kenya.
The Foundation, organized and run by Mr. Grant, is a PEI-based charity that helps relieve poverty and sickness in the Minkinduri area. Minkinduri is in a poor rural area of the country where the people make less than $1.00 per day from their labours and must support themselves on a small plot of land. Many of the children are orphaned due to loss of parents to AIDS and suffer from malnutrition and illnesses such as HIV and malaria.
The people are hardworking and strive to make a better life for themselves and their children by working with the Foundation on various projects. The Foundation helps the people by developing feeding programs at local schools, helping to improve education by providing scholarships, and installing wells and pipelines so that the people can have clean water without having to walk miles each day to obtain it. Local volunteers and parents provide most of the labour to run the feeding programs and installation of infrastructure. Volunteers from Canada, who go to Kenya to help complete projects, pay their own way and their own expenses.
In international service, the goals of the Rotary Club of Hillsborough are to support projects that improve skills training, literacy, community health, food sufficiency, and the provision of safe, clean water. The Minkinduri Foundation is doing great work in Kenya and their goals of promotion of health, education and food security are very similar to those of the Rotary Club of Hillsborough.
The Rotary Club of Hillsborough-Charlottetown is very pleased to provide this small donation to assist the Foundation in achieving its goals.
Jerry Ivany
World Community Service Committee
