International Service

Within Rotary, the International Avenue of Service sets out to:
Seek to help alleviate malnutrition, ill health and deprivation in the international community and encourage goodwill and fellowship between Rotarians in different countries.

In Rayleigh Mill we actively support both these objectives. In recent years we have provided funds for a number of international charities, including:

• Survive Miva, to help purchase a 4 wheel drive ambulance for a Mission in Ecuador to take people from local villages across difficult terrain to hospital in the nearest city.

• Life Through Water. for the digging of bore wells in Southern India to provide fresh water to small villages.

      We have also responded to appeals to help alleviate suffering caused around the world by natural disasters:

• Hurricane Mitch storm damage in Honduras. We funded the purchase of a filtration unit which provides 30,000 litres of clean water.

• Kosovo Appeal to help refugees forced out of their country into camps in Albania.

• Turkish Earthquake Appeal - to provide food, shelter, clothing and medicines.

• Asian tsunami - provide shelter and water purification equipment.

• £5,000 to Wateraid- providing water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world's poorest people.