Pledge: Bill O'Shaughnessy
Prayer: Gerri Lewis
Song: Bill O'Shaughnessy
Cards: Janet Ciszek, Paul Burns
Raffle: Mary Ann Stroup, Kathy Callinan, Rose Acquarulo, Ms. O'Shaughnessey
Happy Bucks: Many bucks for the presentation and our guests from the North Branford Club, several for Paul Burns(birthday), Glen Anderson for the RYLA weekend that he attended.
Visiting Rotarians: Members of the North Branford Rotary Club.
Meals on Wheels: Joe Arcari
Presentations: Ed Pikaart, a former Peace Corps volunteer, presented a power point presentation which brought the culture of Kenya to us. Slides depicted the beautiful countryside, the diversity of the plants and animals, and the people of Kenya. A lively Q and A session followed the slide show.
Dr. Ralph Stroup, from the Yale School of Medicine, described a project aimed at Health Care Initiatives for Kenya. Started in 2008, the project addresses health care, clean water and food security. A clinic has been built along with several solar powered well water pumps. Dr. Stroup invited OS Rotary to participate with several other area Clubs in a Global Grant in Kenya. The grant will be for a number of projects in Ntalabany, Kenya where the non-profit, Kenyan Health Care Initiatives will soon break ground on a primary health clinic. The local villagers currently walk about 6 hours across elephant lands to the nearest clinic. Once the clinic is completed, our Kenyan partners plan to build a nurse's quarters and a pre-school as well. Funds will be used for capital equipment for the clinic, solar lighting, solar refrigerator, community water well, and a drip irrigation greenhouse. Five area Clubs have already pledged $10,000 another $7,400 is needed to completely fund the $42,000 project. A Q and A session followed the power point presentation.
This dinner meeting, which was held at Luigi's Restaurant, adjourned at 9:15pm.
