The Rotary Club of Gordon's Bay helps support many local projects with money raised at our fundraising events and money donated from overseas Rotary Clubs, Rotary matching grants and various other sponsors. When considering new projects, we give priority to child health, welfare and literacy, however, we will consider any worthwhile local project. This is just a sample of our project work; for further information on any of our projects, to make a donation or to request funding please don't hesitate to Contact us....... In a letter about Literacy Month, Past RI President Dong Kurn Lee asks Rotarians to continue supporting literacy and education for all. Says Lee, "We are confronted by the monumental challenge of helping nearly a billion people experience the essential pleasure and power of reading and writing. Without these fundamental skills, too many of our friends and neighbors will remain trapped by poverty, hunger, and disease." |
 Our Literacy project at Temperance Town Primary school was awarded the best project in district 9350 at the district conference May 2010 |
TTPS had 345 pupils in the 2008 academic year, 420 enrolled in 2009 and 532 in 2010. Many of the children attending the school live in the surrounding townships where there is much unemployment and poverty. Some children walk 3 or more kilometres each way to school, often on an empty stomach and some days the food they receive at school is the only food they have. The children are aged between 5 and 16 and class sizes are between 35 and 53, annual school fees per child are only R400 (approx US$50) per annum, however, many of the families are unable to pay this amount. You can sponsor R300 towards a child's school fees and provide a school tracksuit for as little as R700 per year. To find out more and choose a child to sponsor go to Imibala....... |  |
Brains are evenly distributed;
Education is not. That can change.
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Nceduluntu Sanctuary Trust (Ikhayalethemba Village) In 2001 Mama Lumka began providing residential care for 16 disabled and able bodied children in her own home in Nomzamo. Some of the children she cared for were disabled, some of them had been abused, neglected, abandoned and or left by their parents. All of them had nowhere else to go. Having experienced "home" with Mama Lumka, none of them wanted to go anywhere else. We have worked on many projects at the Trust with funding from overseas Rotary clubs. Currently we are project managing the installation of a chicken coop that will eventually make the Trust self sufficient for eggs. The funding for this project has come from our own Rotary club and the Rotary clubs of Walton-on-Thames (England), and
This photograph shows representatives of the Rotary Club of Seaford meeting Mama Lumka after presenting a cheque for £13,000 to build and furnish a bakery at Ikhayalethemba Village.. March 2009 |
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