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ROTARY RELATIONS SUMMARY
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Last updated: 29 February 2008
WCE reduces its sourcing costs 5% on Pentium 2 & 3 desktops if a Rotary Club provides a letter showing that they donate funds or involve their volunteers in helping a WCE Partner with planning, training, and/or installation. (Not applicable if WCE provides a financial Sponsor for a shipment.) SUMMARY OF WCE WORK WITH ROTARY CLUBS ROTARY PROJECTS: Some of our shipments are directly to Rotary Clubs in developing countries for projects that Rotary Clubs have developed in Haiti, Mexico, Bolivia, and Mali. A Rotary Club in Philippines helped to arrange for us to ship 1,200 computers to connect local secondary schools.We have also been approached by Rotary Clubs in India, Lebanon, Nepal, Peru, Uganda, and Ukraine for their projects. LOCAL PARTNERS: Some of WCE's partners in Afghanistan, Bolivia, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, D.R. Congo, Ghana, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda are partners with their local Rotary Clubs. FUNDING: WCE has directly received funding from Rotaries in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Ontario to support shipments to Honduras, Kenya, Bolivia, and Afghanistan. Rotary Clubs in Ghana and Mexico provided partial funding for our most recent shipments. IN-KIND: Rotary Clubs from Massachusetts, New York, Ontario,
and Texas have assisted WCE in gathering and packing computers for Afghanistan
and El Salvador, Kenya, Mexico, and Philippines. We arranged for Rotary
Clubs in Washington to send students to work with our partners in the
Republic of Georgia. DETAIL ON ONGOING RELATIONS WITH ROTARY CLUBS WCE is finding new ways to work with Rotary Clubs in the following 32 developing countries:
* Afghanistan: The West Ottawa Rotary Club (Contact: Cletus Peters) helped to pack computers for a shipment to the Afghan Welfare Center and helped to arrange shipping and donated $2,550. * Argentina: WCE was approached by the Edmonton Rotary Club (by Neil John Hryciw) about their helping a Rotary Club in Argentina to help some schools as was listed on the Rotary International website. WCE has not yet shipped to Argentina. * Bolivia: The West Ottawa Rotary Club (Contact: Jana Sedivy) originally voted US$2,550 to match funding by the Santa Cruz of the Sierra Rotary Club (President: Miguel Moreno Paz and Secretary Rodolfo Soto) and the La Paz Rotary Club in Bolivia (President: José Manuel Palenque Armas Freddy Mercado) seeking assistance with a shipment of 400 computers to help connect to the Internet 2,000 youth in the schools in the surrounding Santa Cruz area. (Implementation Plan). WCE has shipped multiple containers to Bolivia before and has one pending. It looks like their combined total will be matched by Apogee Minerals of Canada and Bolivia. ~ Documents ~ La Paz Rotary Letter * Burkina Faso: President-elect Robert Rockwell, is considering approaching the Lake George Rotary Club to see if they are interested in helping to Sponsor a 20-foot container shipment of 200 Pentium computers. They are approaching the Bobo-Dioulasso Rotary Club via the Rotary District Governor in Accra, Ghana about this. This may be a shared container involving some groups that WCE has previously heard from. This club has previously gathered used computers for WCE. * Burundi: WCE volunteer Carey Radebaugh is approaching Rotary Clubs around Boston seeking Sponsors of a container shipment to help Youth in Reconstruction of the World In Destruction in Burundi. (Implementation Plan) (Contact: Prosper Ndabishuriye) that is working with the Bujumbura Rotary Club in Burundi. Tom Rowen of the Peabody Rotary Club in Massachusetts has begun approaching the new District Governor. This will be the first WCE shipment to Burundi. ~ Documents Cameroon: Alex Mbianda is approaching Rotary Clubs in Eastern Massachusetts in support of the iEARN project in Cameroon (Contact: Francois Donfak) (Implementation Plan). Another project is described in this letter of committment: Bamenda, Cameroon Rotary Club. WCE has shipped containers to Cameroon before and has another pending. Cote d'Ivoire: Rotary Club Abidjan Golf is a WCE Partner. (Implementation Plan) Not currently active due to the problems there. This will be the first WCE shipment to Cote d'Ivoire. Democratic Republic of Congo: Rotary Club Butembo (Contact: Docteur Mumbere, président) is working with WCE Partner L'Initiative Humanitaire pour le Développement Communautaire (Implementation Plan) (Contact: Bavon Mwabilwa) The container for the Goma area is going to include some sports equipment as well as computers for the schools in the area. Ecuador: The Guayaquil Rotary Club in Ecuador is assisting WCE Partner E.ducate (Implementation Plan) (Contact: Nathalie Cely) WCE has also heard from the Salina Rotary Club (Contact: Jorge Coello). WCE has shipped containers to Ecuador before and has another pending. ~ Documents. Georgia: WCE worked with Computers 4 the World and the Seattle Rotary Club (Contact: Robin DuBrin) to have a small team of students to go work with a WCE Partner in the Republic of Georgia (Contact: Dr. Teimuraz Chichua) (Implementation Plan). WCE has shipped several containers to Georgia before and has another pending. ~ Documents Ghana: The Kleinburg Rotary Club (Ontario) (Contact: Roy Vokes) donated $500 in November 2007 to help fund 20 Pentium 3s for Tomorrow's Stars, one of WCE's Partners. (Implementation Plan). This is part of a shared container. The Sekondi/Takoradi Rotary Club (President: Bedu Mensah) and the Kumasi East Rotary Cub (President: Seth Asiama) are working with local WCE Partners. WCE Partner, Agent of Change, is working with the Ho Rotary Club. (Implementation Plan). - Documents WCE has made shipments to Ghana before and has another shared container pending. Guinea: Conakry Rotary Club in Guinea is working with the Foundation International de Solidair (Contact: Karim Camara). (Implementation Plan) WCE has shipped to Guinea before and has another pending. ~ Documents. * Haiti: Le Rotary Club de Pétionville (Implementation Plan) (Contact: Gaetan Mentor, President) is receiving 20 Pentium 3 computers sets shipped in October 2007. The sourcing and shipping by WCE is being Sponsored by West Ottawa Rotary Club (Contact: C. J. Peters, Chair, World Community Service Committee). ~ Documents Honduras: In late May 2007, the Chatham (Massachusetts) Rotary Club donated the first $250 toward a 20-foot container of 200 Pentiums to go to Honduras to help connect schools assisted by Peace Corps Volunteers. WCE St. Louis volunteers have spoken to six Rotary Clubs around St. Louis about this same shipment. Clayton (Missouri) Rotary Club donated $250 India: WCE has been approached by the Chennai Rotary Club, Bangalore Rotary Club, and the Vasco Da Gama Rotary Club. WCE has shipped many containers to India and has another pending. WCE Partner in Gujarat, Lok Vidyalaya has now reached agreement to work with the Rotary Club of Bhavnagar. * Kenya: Currently, Nairobi Rotary District # 9000 (Contact: Mr. KP Doshi) is considering a request from the Gichugu Development Association (Implementation Plan) for $3,800 to ship 200 computer sets inMarch 2008 to begin to connect to the Internet 40 high schools with 20,000 students. WCE is very pleased that the Modesto Sunrise Rotary Club in California (President: David Gallager) donated $1,500 in February to Sponsor 20 computers for Teenage Mothers and Girls Association of Kenya in Kisumu, Kenya departing Boston as part of a shared container at the beginning of June 2006. Also in this container - Ikonzo Musanda Self Help Group in Kenya (Contact: Francis Anyona) is working with the Kakamega Rotary Club (President :Robertson Binayo Osangaleto) to bring in 42 computer sets that left Boston as part of a shared container at the beginning of June 2006 (Implementation Plan). WCE has also heard from Nairobi Central Rotary Club and the Langata Rotary Club. WCE Partner, Glorious Poverty Eradication Project, is working with the Rotary Club of Nairobi (Implementation Plan). WCE has shipped containers to Kenya before and has another pending. ~ Documents. Kyrgyzstan: Rotary's Gift of Life, School for the Blind, and the Public Fund for Open Technology, (Contact: Jon Post) contacted WCE. This would be WCE's first shipment to Kyrgyzstan. Lebanon: WCE has had an initial informal inquiry from Rotary Club Baabda www.rcbaabda.org part of RoLEC www.rotary.org.lb - the 20 Rotary Clubs and 15 Rotaracts of Lebanon. They are currently installing all new computers in schools in their area. Malawai: The Rotary Club of Mzuzu is working with WCE Partner Sustainable Development Initiatives (Implementation Plan). WCE has shipped to Malawi befor and has another pending. ~ Documents. * Mali: There is a pending shipment of 400 computers sets to connect 70 schools with 5,000 students from a Rotary Club in Mali - the Bamako Amitié Rotary Club (Contact: Sunny Akuopha) working with the National Ministry of Education. (Implementation Plan) Rotary Clubs from England and Australia have visited and are working together on automobile race LimotoAfrica ideas to raise funds to Sponsor this container. To date this race has raised $3,650. WCE has shipped to Mali before and has another pending. ~ Documents. Listing on Rotary International website: http://www.matchinggrants.org/grant617.html * Mexico: In 2004, the Rotary Club of Padre Island in Texas (Contact: John Wilson) working with Texas A & M and the Rotary Club of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico and the local Governor arranged for a shipment of computers from WCE to help connect local schools to the Internet. (project website) (Implementation Plan) Rotary volunteers help as mentors, installing computers, and have donated $1,900. In late 2007, the two Rotary Clubs in two countries are again planning another shipment from WCE. ~ Documents. Nepal: WCE Partner COPPADES is working with the Kathmandu Rotary Club in Nepal. WCE has also heard from the Butwal Rotary Club. WCE has shipped containers of computers to Nepal before and has another shipment pending. ~ Documents. Nigeria: Anambra State Rotary Club of Awka in Anambra State, Nigeria has been approached by Youth Awareness Nigeria (Contact: Odinikpo Augustine). (Implementation Plan) Also the Trans Amadi Rotary Club, Port Harcourt, River State, Nigeria: helping the Society for Development and Cooperation (Contact: Kayode Adedoye) (Implementation Plan). WCE has also heard from the Iju/Ajuwon Rotary Club (Ikeja) . WCE has shipped many computers to Nigeria and has another pending. ~ Documents. In Canada, the Rotary Club of Steveston, District 5040, British Columbia and the Rotary Club of Richmond Sunrise are currently considering providing assistance to the Youth Media and Communication Initiative in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. (Implementation Plan) ~ Documents. Pakistan: Rotary Club Hayatabad, District 3270 (Muhammad Usman Khan Marwat Assistant Governor 2005-06) has sent this July 2006 letter committing to non-cash full support in coordination and assistance in the implementation of the project of Afghan Welfare Center. They also recommend the project to go forward. WCE volunteers Thomas Graham and Tas Murhutta are approaching Rotary Clubs in the area around Washington DC seeking Sponsors of a container shipment to help the Afghan Welfare Center help to connect more Afghan refugees living in Pakistan to the Internet. (Implementation Plan). WCE has shipped to Pakistan before and has another pending. ~ Documents. * Peru: Bytown Rotary Club of Ottawa is exploring a project to ship computers from WCE to help a Rotary Club in Peru connect more youth to the Internet. (Contact: Drew Antrobus) Philippines: The Cebu City Rotary Club (Contact: Fred Kintinar) is assisting that is a pilot for work with the Board of Education of Cebu Province and being helped by a Peace Corps Volunteer to install 1,180 previously used computers in the Province's 113 secondary schools with 38,000. One school, Compostela National High Schooll will have 80 sets in thin-client labs for their 2,000 students. The computers are expected to begin being shipped in September 2007. (Implementation Plan). (List of Schools) ~ Documents Sierra Leone: iEARN Sierra Leone reported that they are working with the Freetown Rotary Club to match some of the funds for a container donated by a WCE Sponsor. (Contact: Andrew Greene) Crusaders Club Ministry is also approaching them (Implementation Plan). This will be the first WCE shipment to Sierra Leone. There is already a donor who has covered two-thirds of the sourcing and shipping costs. ~ Documents. Tanzania: A Rotary Club from Germany (Rotary Letter) is assisting the St. Francis Primary School and another school of the Missionary Society of St. Francis De Sales with their computer project. The schools are receiving 40 Pentium III sets as part of a shared container to Tanzania. (Implementation Plan). WCE has shipped to Tanzania before and has another pending. ~ Documents Togo: The Lomé Rotary Club in Togo (President: Prof. M Gbeassor) is assiting WCE Partner iEARN Togo (Contact: Abotchi Yao) to connect several schools in Togo to the Internet. (Implementation Plan) Jacques Roy of the Ottawa Rotary Club expressed interest. This will be the first WCE shipment to Togo. ~ Documents. Uganda: The Rotary Club of Kyengera is working on a large project with the Central Buganda University. As a small part of this the University is receiving 10 Pentium 2 adn 3 computers sets in January of 2008 as part of a shared contaner to Kampala. The Masaka Rotary Club is seeking computers to set up youth computers labs in Masaka. They are considering being part of a shared container that we are shipping to Kampala. (Contact: John E. Sekaggya, Past President) Setting Developments And Keeping The Foundation, one of the WCE Partners has contacted the Kampala Rotary Club seeking support. (Contact: Charles Odere, President) Another WCE Partner also approached the Mbale Rotary Club but they did not seem to understand why all of the computers from us needed to go to connect youth. (Contact: Micheal Nangoshya). WCE Partner Elim Pentecostal Temples has met with Tororo Rotary Club to see about working together. * Ukraine: The International Committee of the Boston Rotary Club (Contact: Wilson Lee) approached WCE about computers for their proposed shipment to asssist a Rotary Club project in Ukraine. WCE has not yet shipped to Ukraine. Zambia: The Pittsburgh Rotary Club was approached by Project Educate, a WCE Partner in Zambia (Contact: Mbao Mwiya-Ngula). (Implementation Plan) WCE has shipped many containers of computers to Zambia. ~ Documents.
If you are a WCE Volunteer preparing to approach your local Rotary Club or Rotary District - here is a draft letter and a summary document that you may find useful.
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