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District Governor Nominee Rosemary Aragon
presided over a meeting March 12 which reviewed the activities of District clubs in International projects. One session dealt with Russia, and Bill Robinson
gave an excellent presentation on Russia’s economic, political, and legislative realities. He talked about the new laws being passed which are necessary for participating in a market economy. He also described four important development phases in a business or Rotary relationship: 1) building trust relationships, 2) resolving public sector/private sector issues, 3) defining project financing, and 4) identifying (and mitigating) risk management. Bill also went over the 10+ Russia Match projects and their status.
A March 31st deadline produced a large group of matching grants by participating Rotary Clubs of District 5030. Aragon noted the two
major themes were computers and helping children. Some of the grants submitted included:
- Bellevue Downtown Rotary: books, computers, educational materials for library and recreation hall, a bus for Katmandu School for
the Deaf in Katmandu, Nepal
- Kirkland & Bellevue: mini libraries for Project Amigo (for orphanages, schools, etc., in La Colima area)
- Bellevue Breakfast: mini libraries for Project Amigo (for orphanages, schools, etc., in La Colima area)
- Northshore: fire engine equipment for Navajoa in Mexico
- Rush Hour Rotary: computers for the world request for nine orphanages and University in Lodz, Poland.
- Shoreline/Shoreline Breakfast: equip a kitchen in poor school in Costa Rica
- Seattle #4: potable running water to Chilouga, northern province, Zambia
- Seattle #4, Bellevue, Port Townsend, and Lacy: helping grant to purchase a generator, computers, and furnishings for a new 100
family home community at old marine fire base in Vietnam
- Seattle #4: provide a mobile computer lab to serve poor junior high and high school students in three rural villages and a computer
lab at new rotary neighborhood (casitas) built under the low-cost shelters program (Project Amigo)
- Seattle International: helping grant to provide computers for a new elementary school in outlying poor, rural area (computers to be
powered by two solar panels)
- SeaTac (with Des Moines, Burien/White Center, Tukwila, Southcenter, Mill Creek): purchase computers for six needy schools in
Guulbene, Latvia
- Tukwila: solar ovens in Altiplano, Bolivia
- University Rotary: purchase slide projector with related accessories and items for the Integrated Family Welfare Center (population
management) sponsored by Krishnapura RC, India
- University Sunrise: items for patient leisure time during cancer treatment at the "casa de Apoio," Brazil; also purchase
equipment for washing and sterilizing bed clothes
- Woodinville/Northshore: Vocational Training Institute for Women in Pakistan
There are many program possibilities for clubs within District 503, including: Bill Robinson (Seattle #4); Rob Rose
(Bellevue), on the subject of recent Nepal and India trips; Ezra Teshome (University), speaking on Computers for the World (C4W) trip to Ethiopia (February 2001); Rosemary Aragon and
Joy Andrada (C4W), a program on Computers for the World trip to Guatemala (February 2001); Dr. Francis Horner (Auburn), regarding South Africa; Jack Kniskern
(Des Moines), on his idea about connecting community colleges with South Africa projects; Jack Lauderbaugh (Seattle #4), on South Africa, after he returns from his trip in May.
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