District 1260 International Club projects, Year 2001-02 [Supplementary list of projects outside of the standard RIBI list]
Clubs' other projects including WCS Projects and Disaster Response Items in red are Literacy associated projects
Amwell	Romania- 10 Rotarians visited on charity work, Paris Grand Arch club- 5 Rotarians and wives visited President's handover event. Matching Grant Project (Toilets) completed with Belgaum South Club, India
Ampthill and District	Collected artificial limbs for hospitals paid for transport to Africa of 14 pallet loads (two and a half tons)
Aylesbury Hundreds	Purchase with the Chernobyl Connection and transporting an ambulance to Belarus. Included stretchers, clothes, food, and spare equipment and 120 blankets cost £2000
Bletchley	Donation to Gujarat Appeal, Visit to prospective club for twinning in Belgium
Brookmans Park	£1000 to Feed the Children. Ethnic dools for Rotary club in India
Buckingham	Indian Earthquake £500, Algerian Floods £250, Preparation for a matching grant in South Africa
Chesham	Sorting and packing books and school equipment for Schoolaid (Zimbabwe), Active support for the Ranfurly Charitable Service £200, Congo Disaster £250 (Feed the Children) £250 Save the Children, Members sorting and repairing science equipment for schools in Africa. (Lab Aid) and donation £200. Joe Homan £46, Taiwan disaster £50, Novimost Charity for Bosnia £750.
Dunstable	Activity with contact Club Menen, Belgium. Planning for joint project.
Dunstable Downs	Successful Matching Grant with the Lucena Club in the Philippines to buy an instrument needed by eye surgeons
Great Missenden	Support for two children in India via Joe Homan's Trust. This support continues each year. Financial support for teaching expedition to Nepal. Support for LAKE Victoria School in South Africa for Aids Orphans. Matching grant for a Shea nut butter scheme in Tamale , Ghana. With the Thane Hill RC near Bombay a WCS Project to provide play-ground equipment for disadvantaged and disabled children.
Harpenden Village	Twinning
Hatfield	£100 For disaster fund, £350 Construction of Bridge and Toilet Block for School in Gangtok, India
Hemel Hempstead	Funding and Service for assistance with disabled children in Malabon Philippines
Hertford	Books and toys sent to a nursery school for Bedouin Children in Jordan. £500 to the Gujarat appeal. Youth Exchange with Harford Connecticut. Preparation for an Inter Country contact with Wilderhausen, Germany and initial negotiation for Inter Country contact with Nebrisk, Siberia. Hosted 15 Children from Chernobyl area.
Hertford Shires	Sponsor individuals £100
Hitchin Priory	Matching grant for School in Mozambique. Donation to a policeman for his voluntary work in an orphanage in East Timor
Hoddesdon	Rotarynagar £1,000, Sikonge Hospital Tanzania £1,750 for Ultrasound Machine, Biriomy Isuka Farmers Project Kenya £1000 Purchase of chickens.
Leighton Linslade	Twinning activities with France, and support of various disaster appeals (Gujarat)
Luton North	Started an International Fund to help rebuild the Gujarat area of India after the earthquake, resulting in very close co-operation with the local Rotary Club of Bhavnagar and the ultimate building of a new township which became named RotaryNagar, or "the Place of Rotary". This has now become an RIBI administered project. The opening of Rotary Nagar was attended by Club President Bob Shah, Project Leader Leslie Robertson, DG Mike Gardner and RIBI Pres. Norman Procter. Organised a Balloon Race where the winning balloon reached the eastern side of Russia. The money was transferred there and although small by western standards, has totally transformed the life of a small village. The winning Farmer has now bought a small Van with his prize and gone into the transport business. As a result, the villagers are now able to send their produce for sale in neighbouring towns and earn additional income.
	The farmer has been able to "adopt" a 17-year old boy from the village who was without parents, and his family broken up after his mother was killed and his father sent to jail for manslaughter. Now the boy has a future and the prospect of an apprenticeship in his chosen trade. Largely made possible as a result of our Balloon Race.) Good contacts have been established with the Rotary Club of Nizhny Novgorod (formerly the Soviet city of Gorky) and have an invitation to visit them some time next year. The story of the Balloon Race and the Russian connection has been published on the Rotary1260 web site, the RIBI (April 2002) magazine, the RI Newsbasket, local newspapers, Anglia TV, the government web site of the Russian Republic of Mari-El, and last week was published again (with recent updates) in the main Russian newspaper for Nizhny Novgorod. Continued long-term sponsorship of an Indian boy attending training in a local Boys Town (International Childrens' Trust administered) Received a visit from our twinned club of Wolfsburg (Germany) in May 2002
Luton Chiltern	Project "Safe House" Romania. Supporting as an ongoing project in Romania. the provision of a "safe house" and attendant facilities for orphans and underprivileged children in Riga. This long-term project has been undertaken by a group of young people from Luton/Harpenden attached to Luton Christian Fellowship. Donated a total of £750.
Potters Bar	International Evening with Ambassadorial Scholar. Youth Exchange with young people from German Contact club. Visit from German Contact Club visits to London attractions, Presidents night and garden party.
Milton Keynes Grand Union	Congo Disaster £50 (Save the Children), Building and Equipment for School in Nairobi £6000, Refurbish and equipment for Romanian Orphanage £140
Newport Pagnell	Ede and Kitwe Zambia £12,000 for St Joseph's School Kitwe
Rickmansworth	Watford Rotary Zulu Team Visit, Gujarat appeal £600,
St Albans	£500 to the Afghanistan Refugee appeal. Matching grant $20,000 to supply water to 205 homes in a village in Pallithottam, India.
St Albans Priory	British Humanitarian Aid £250, Bangladesh acid victims £250, Zimbabwe street children £250
Tring and District	School support for new roof in Harare Zimbabwe £400. Orphanage support in Kisumu Kenya £100 for new security wall
Ware	Disaster Appeals for Merlin £150, Save the Children £250, £180. Special School in Romania £2600, 50 gift boxes for school in Romania, Hands on project for School in Constantina - Romania, Educational Toys for school in Jordon. Three young people sent to Hartford, Conn, USA. and hosted for approximately two weeks. regular exchange with Hartford and hosting on a reciprocal basis....
Watford	Twinned with a town in France and Germany - Regular visits and support by three clubs of the Faulkner Trust in Zambia This is an orphanage and the clubs provide material support. This includes provision of playground equipment. £3500 has been donated to improve the education of the children
Watford Clarendon	Active twinning with a club in Germany and in France. Hosted a three-club visit.
Watford and the Langleys	Formed first ever International Committee, Twinned with French club, £2500 raised to build classroom for a school in Gambia, £50 Sent to Taiwan Disaster,
Watford North	£500 to the British Red Cross for disaster relief
Welwyn Garden City	St Andrews Mission Children's home in Lima, Peru £500. Herts Representative to world Scout Jamboree £150
Wolverton	Afghanistan Appeal £100, Eshowe School £5.500 Water and Toilet facilities for Rural Schools, Sponsoring 2 Scouts to Thailand

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