DISTRICT GRANT DG 2452808

Community Development

The Rotary Club will use volunteer efforts and grant resources to help construct or rehabilitate a home in the historic Harrisburg community of Augusta. Harrisburg is an underserviced community that has suffered economically and is a vital link between downtown Augusta and other commercial/residential areas.

DISTRICT GRANT DG 2118047

Community Development and Education

1. Fighting hunger in Augusta.
2. Students and schools.

DISTRICT GRANT DG 1977928

Community Development

Provide smoke alarms, home safety plans and checklists for fire safety. Provide fire victims with comfort kits and assistance in the form of lodging, clothing, food, and other essentials.

DISTRICT GRANT DG 1734736

Community Development

The club will participate in the refurbishing of the 2nd floor Green Room of the historical Imperial Theater; donating labor and supplies

GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT GG 223751

Mobile ENT Screening Van

Often infants at the time of birth & kids from 0-3 years happen to be the victims of non-hearing & speech issues which are due to lack of awareness amongst parents & sometimes the medical centers are not having properly facilities to screen these sensory organs effective functioning. If screened & checked at the right time, 90% of the infants & kids can be saved & treated from losing their sense of hearing & speech.

This issue was discussed at the Community Assessment Meeting. It was also noted that access to medical facilities required to identify hearing and speaking disability are not available in rural areas and the parents are required to travel long distances to avail these facilities incurring a huge cost. Most of the Government Hospitals are not equipped to identify such hearing disabilities due to lack of proper equipment and trained staff. The parents, in most of the cases have to relay on private health services spending huge money. It was also noted that early screening could save lot of cost to the parents and avoid suffering for the children. The members present at the community meeting have concluded that early screening and creating awareness will reduce the problem of speech and hearing disability among the children and help them lead a normal life.

Rotary Club of Armoor is building a Mobile ENT Van fitted with equipment useful to screen children and adults of hearing and speech difficulties and provide them treatment to enable them to lead a normal life. MAA Hospitals Private Limited has agreed to support the Club in conducting the screening camps and also in maintaining the van and equipment once it is handed over to them.

The main objectives of the project are:

1. To identify hearing loss, speech and language problems in infants and children, in rural areas, Government Schools and Urban slums.
2. To train, educate and create awareness to parents, teachers and health worker in identifying children at risk in regular schools and to provide awareness about the risk factors.

Presently the issues were addressed only at the last stages of the hearing problem, by that time it will be very difficult or not possible to cure those hearing problems. This is resulting in hearing loss and autism. Most of the problems relating to Hearing can be completely cured with the early interventions and treatment.

Children up to the age of 12 will be the major beneficiaries of the project.

GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT GG 2012533

Red Cross Blood Collection Van

The Guntur District Branch of Indian Red Cross was started on 10th March 1936, and is having more than 3000 active members. Red Cross is known as service to humanity without any discrimination, Indian Red Cross, Guntur Dist. Branch, started ‘Red Cross Blood Bank` on 05-05-2006 in their own premises .Through this Global Grant we want to setup a community based Mobile Blood Collection Vehicle. Provision of Vehicle will essentially offer on-site collection of blood from the donors. This facility will be available to the donors from Guntur and adjoining areas.

Our objective is to provide assistance to existing Red Cross Blood Bank in Guntur. This Will provide blood to needy free or at subsidized rates to the poor and needy patients. It will benefit all citizens falling under geographical area of 100 miles from Guntur.

Toilets For Adolescent Girls in the School

Global Projects GG 2459570

The project helps in providing hygiene toilet facilities for adolescent girls of residential Junior college along with training on good hygiene practices. The college is a government aided college with the teaching and other staff getting paid from the Government. The girls from low income groups are provided education at concessional fees. These girls stay at the hostel facility within the college campus. The toilet block of the hostel has 30 toilets, 24 bathrooms and 10 wash stations. This block is in dire unusable conditions and needs complete renovation.

The girls are suffering because of this and the resulting in trauma. There is an immediate need for a hygienic environment among the students for good healthy and livable surroundings, decrease the absenteeism in the students by providing better sanitation facilities.

Hearts of Europe: Empowering Women Entrepreneurship

Current women’s economic empowerment interventions are not enough to overcome all obstacles facing female entrepreneurs. The emerging evidence from psychology and experimental economics on agency, mindset, and leadership show that for successful interventions to be transformative, they need to move beyond basic access to financial and human capital and tackle central psychological, social, and skills constraints on women entrepreneurs.

Women in social entrepreneurship often disrupt many of these patterns of gender inequality. The social entrepreneurship sector has proven itself uniquely capable of empowering women leaders in its field, and of changing the lives and welfare of all women.

Women social entrepreneurs have, time and time again, made a deep impact in their work through a form of impact called “scaling deep” – overhauling unfair and unjust systems, sparking collaborative social movements, and reshaping dominant expectations, norms, and stigmas.

RC Cukarica conducted assessment among female entrepreneurs from October 10th to October 25th, 2022. Assessment was conducted with help from Rotary clubs from different parts of Serbia to receive more useful info from the field and to tackle the smallest press of the women entrepreneurship challenges in Serbia. Focus groups were conducted with more than 80 females, ages between 35 and 55 years old, some of them are already in business and some have business plans to start their own production in different fields. Most of their business is based on preparation of traditional, healthy products and different tinctures. 

They received 128 applications and team consisted of RC Cukarica and Foundation Ana and Vlade Divac made a final list out of sixteen women entrepreneurs that will participate in project. During the project all project participants will be connected via e -mail, social media and Viber groups. After the project ends our partner, Foundation Ana and Vlade Divac will be available to all project participants for on-line consultations and provide support from their area of expertise. After the training is conducted, a Viber group will be made with all entrepreneurs- project participants and our partner will have on –line consultations with each of them to provide specific support that they require. In September we are going to have a study visit from our international partner from Savannah. During their visit we agreed with them to organize Zoom meetings with Savannah Labor commerce –their female entrepreneurs, to exchange experience and know-how with our project participants.