The Rotary Foundation
The mission of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
Jim Hudson reminded us of the six broad areas established in 2013 that the Foundation address which are summarised on their International website as follows:
- Preventing disease
- Providing clean water
- Supporting education
- Growing local economies
- Saving mothers & children
- Promoting peace
Jim noted that the Foundation provides a raft of opportunities that we can address via both global and district grants. In 2018 this amounted to 86,677,399 in funding worldwide to 1,306 grants. (Source: Rotary Foundation International website).
Jim will be going into more depth on the Foundation in a future session.