February 23, 2008
Honesdale Rotary has been instrumental in helping the Kumbo Rotary club navigate the waters of creating a new club in Kumbo, Cameroon, West Africa.
The aspiring club has already sprung into action and made a request to Honesdale Rotary for a donation that would allow a local hospital to install a generator in it’s operating room.
Honesdale Rotary agreed to send the donation.
February 21, 2008
Honesdale Rotarian, Matthew Douzart, helps load one of the final boxes of books that will be housed by the new Kumbo Public Library, in Cameroon, Africa.
As part of a Humanitarian Project supported by the Himalayan Institute, Honesdale Rotary his spearheading the fundraising efforts to help make this library a reality.
The Himalayan Institute has just opened its first HI Community Center in Cameroon, Africa and now serves a community of more than 50,000 people. Along with other rural empowerment projects, they have been working with the Kumbo City Council to create a public library.
Yesterday we loaded a 40’ container bound for Africa. And just in time- it was a beautiful day and about 80 people turned out to help load the container. One day later and we would have been working in snow!
The story was the lead on WNEP TV at 5:30 yesterday evening, channel 13 TV at 5:00 –and in the Times Leader Newspaper today.
Times Leader Story:
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19321330&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6
WNEP:
http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=7907051&nav=menu158_2>
For more about Honesdale Rotary and its projects visit
www.HonesdaleRotary.com
