On Tuesday July 12th, Sec. Joel presented the idea that our 25th anniversary as a Rotary Club would fall within the next Rotary year and that it would be a good idea to start to think about a meaningful project to carry out in that year.  This he suggested should commence the planning by January 2017.  This was his segue to present on the Roatry Foundation's six areas of focus and in his presentation he highlighted the process for successfully applying for Grants from TRF.  For those who could not make lunch that day, the presentation follows.

 
 
 
Areas of Focus
 
•Water & Sanitation
•Disease Prevention & Treatment
•Maternal & Child Health
•Basic Education and Literacy
•Economic & Community Development
•Peace and Conflict Prevention & Resolution
 
 
There are many ways to carry out a project that will bring lasting change to the water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions within your community, including:
 
•Increasing water supply and distribution (for example, rainwater harvesting, water storage, wells, and boreholes)
•Improving water quality (purification)
•Providing hygiene education
•Supplying waste management
•Enhancing water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions in schools and communities
 
 
You can also:
 
•Provide scholarships related to water, sanitation, and hygiene
•Supply vocational training
•Conduct training with communities to establish water, sanitation, and hygiene committees, such as Rotary Community Corps, to manage the infrastructure and continue necessary training once the project has been completed
 
 
There are many ways to carry out a project that will impact the health and development of your community including:
 
•Testing with counseling and referrals/admission to treatment
•Educating on how to prevent disease transmission and providing supplies that may assist these prevention efforts
•Providing mobile technology equipment and vehicles to monitor and treat patients
•Providing equipment supported by the local health infrastructure, including operational and maintenance plans
•Providing prevention programs, such as vaccinations or pre-exposure prophylaxis
•Providing a technical platform, with training on how to use it to track and monitor disease diagnosis and treatment
•Treating communicable diseases and providing  on how to prevent disease, improving training of health service professionals, or providing public health education to improve the long-term health of a community
 
You can also provide:
 
•Scholarships for education related to disease prevention and treatment
•Vocational training teams to strengthen and update health care delivery
•Improvements of community-based health through health education, mobilization, provision of equipment and supplies, and health care worker training
 
 
There are many ways to carry out a project that will impact the health of women and children in your community:
 
•Support training of frontline health care workers
•Provide much needed medical equipment and supplies
•Increase access to health care services by forming strong and lasting partnerships in your community
•Make meaningful and productive relationships with your local, district, regional, and national health policy and program leaders
•Advocate and support local reproductive health and family planning services
•Mobilize your community to support child health care interventions
 
 
You can also provide:
 
•Scholarships for post-graduate education related to maternal and child health
•Training for obstetricians, midwives, and frontline health care workers
•Equipment and supplies at local and regional health care centers
•Meaningful partnerships with other health care public and private sector providers
•Create community awareness groups to identify your community’s needs and priorities
 
Rotary supports activities and training to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality for children under five. 
 
The Rotary Foundation enables Rotarians to improve the health of mothers and children by:
 
•Reducing the mortality and morbidity rate for children under the age of five
•Reducing the maternal mortality and morbidity rate
•Improving access to essential medical services, trained community health leaders and health care providers for mothers and their children
•Supporting studies for career-minded professionals related to maternal and child health
 



 
 
There are many ways to carry out a project that will impact the basic education and literacy of your community:
 
•Provide teacher training in teaching methodology, classroom management, or other topics as identified by teachers
•Develop formalized adult literacy programs
•Create a structured after-school tutoring or mentoring program
•Create blended learning opportunities through use of technology in the classroom
 
You can also:
 
•Reduce gender disparity in education
•Improve water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions in the school and community increasing enrollment and school retention
•Assist teachers to understand curriculums distributed by the ministry of education and to develop innovative ways of teaching current curriculums
 
 
There are many ways to carry out a project that will impact the economic development of your community including:
 
•Initiating income generation activities to encourage greater self-sufficiency within the local economy
•Increasing access to markets or helping business owners market their goods
•Alleviating poverty
 
You can also:
 
•Provide scholarships for academic programs that help economic development professionals enhance their skills
•Supply vocational training or entrepreneurial training
•Help develop the leadership skills that community members need to work together for the improvement of the community
 
 
There are many ways to carry out a project in the peace and conflict prevention/resolution area of focus including:
•Peace-building and youth training sessions
•Mediation groups
•Scholarships on studies related to peace
•Projects focused on marginalized groups
 
 
While Rotary clubs frequently fundraise and carry out projects without seeking a grant from The Rotary Foundation, a global grant can be a wonderful opportunity to leverage support for large, sustainable, international projects. To be eligible for funding, a global grant project must be:
 
•Sustainable, which means the activity continues after grant funding has been spent
•Measurable, with an established process for tracking and reporting on project results
•Aligned with an area of focus that meets The Rotary Foundation’s goals and activities
•Responsive to real community needs that are identified through a community assessment
•Led by Rotarians who have built a relationship with community members in the project location