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St. Peters RC members raise funds on a weekly basis through our “Koins for Kids” fund and our 50/50 drawing held each week. These funds are given to a variety of local charities. Currently we are raising funds for Room to Read through our 50/50 and will be selecting a charity focused on a cause that helps local children for our next “Koins for Kids” donation.
The St. Peters RC is also participating in the Future Vision pilot, a three-year test of The Rotary Foundation's new, streamlined grant structure.
The pilot officially began 1 July, with 100 pilot districts that were selected from among hundreds of applicants in June 2009. The pilot districts will spend the next three years testing and helping to refine the Foundation's new grant model before all districts begin to participate in July 2013.
"I believe that through Future Vision, we will be able to serve our communities, and the world, in better and more effective ways," said Glenn E. Estess Sr., 2009-10 Foundation trustee chair, at the 2010 RI Convention in Montréal, Québec, Canada. "We will do the very most with everything we have. We will be able to address the challenges, large and small, that present obstacles to peace -- and dismantle those obstacles, one by one."
"Concentrating our efforts on bigger projects will have a greater impact and be more sustainable," said Jeremy Voizey, past governor of District 1120 (England), during a Future Vision networking session at the convention. "Traditionally, we have done very well with the Foundation. This model should make life easier."
Pilot districts were chosen after a careful and rigorous review process, designed to select a group of districts that would closely mirror the Rotary world. The 100 districts were required to make a firm, three-year commitment to the pilot and, before the launch, to appoint a district Rotary Foundation committee chair to serve for all three years. Pilot district governors-elect and Foundation committee chairs received special training during the 2010 International Assembly.
Currently, the St. Peters RC has joined forces with the Webster Groves RC and the San Pedro Sula, Honduras RC to fund the MG70763 Grant in Pimienta, Honduras to fund installation of water pipes from a new water tank to approximately 350 village homes.
La Casitas Community on the outskirts of Pimienta, Honduras has about 750 residents in small homes. Although a huge water tank is nearby, the residents do not have access to the clean water, instead receiving their water from a dilapidated, contaminated small tank and hauling it by bucket to their homes. The first phase of this project has been completed on time and under budget. St. Peters RC will be assisting with Phase 2 which will extend the water pipe to the remainder of the homes in Pimienta.