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Emmen Monarch
In
response to the second International Service objective, we have
formed a link with the Rotary Club of Emmen Monarch in the
eastern area of the Netherlands.
Through
a number of exchange visits between the clubs during the last
ten
years this relationship has grown strongly. Unlike other
International Service projects the members themselves fund these
exchange visits. The success
of the link led the clubs to decide
that the relationship
should now be further established through a twinning
arrangement.
Emmen
Emmon
is the largest town in the Drenthe region and the second largest
town in the Northern Netherlands.
It has approximately 105,000 inhabitants and is the leading city
for education in this part of the country.
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Glasshouse horticulture covers more area in Emmen than in any
other municipality in the Northern Netherlands, in fact in just
a few more years Emmen expects to have 400 hectares covered by
greenhouses. Many of the beautiful cut roses which appear in our
florist shops throughout the year are grown in Emmen. Although Emmen has eleven developed industrial and office parks
it still boasts plenty of space and landscaped areas. It is
internationally famous for its “Noorder Dierenpark” a zoo that
attracts almost two million visitors each year. Within the zoo
is a wonderful butterfly house in which can be seen the famous
Monarch butterfly. This has given its name to the Rotary club of
Emmen Monarch. The club currently has 30 members and is a dual
gender club. Emmen Monarch club was officially twinned with
Rayleigh Mill on May 19th 2000.
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International Service
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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:
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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.
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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:
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Hurricane Mitch storm damage in
Honduras. We funded the purchase of a filtration unit which
provides
30,000 litres of clean water.
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Kosovo Appeal to help refugees forced out of their country
into camps in Albania.
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Turkish Earthquake Appeal - to
provide food, shelter, clothing and medicines.
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Asian tsunami - provide shelter
and water purification equipment.
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£5,000 to Wateraid- providing water, sanitation and hygiene
education to some of the world's poorest people.
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