Colin shared with us a great story about a GSE Team Member from California on his exchange visiting a house from WWii where they would hide their neighbours under the floor.
Barb and Audrey have been busy checking out "Code Brew." They shared lots of pros for us to have meetings there! One exciting pro is that "Code Brew" is looking into have a liquor license and they can easily seat 38. Hopefully we can do a test run in the near future!
Barb and Audrey said the club received a Thank You note from last weeks speaker. Kathy thanked the club members for being so welcoming.
Jim Turley spoke of an interesting fundraiser they are working on! Its "Rotary Shopping Day" in which club members would sell coupons to people for certain stores giving them a % off on a specific day. This is still in the earlier stages and if you have any great thoughts with regard to this, please, contact Jim or Bob Lasota.
Our club together with Nanaimo Daybreak Rotary Club developed a grant proposal for the project. The district community grant application was approved by D5020 in the amount of US$3,500; this will be matched by contributions from the Mid Island Group, area clubs and the Techiman Rotary Club. The project will be administered by the Techiman club. The grant will fund construction of a well and installation of electricity for the St. Hubert's basic school in Akrofrom, a community about 70 km NE of Sunyani.
When the project is completed, it will give the children in St Hubert’s Basic School and the community access to clean drinking water as well as electricity. It should take six months to complete
The school was chosen because the community is expanding very quickly increasing the school population but the school lacks basic facilities like water and electricity. We therefore decided to use this grant to provide these basic facilities, to help improve their way of life thereby improving education and literacy.
