The members of Centre Wellington Rotary Club have made two donations of $1,000 each to aid the people of Haiti.
One donation went to Rotary’s Shelter Box program that supplies food, water, housing, and medical supplies for a family of ten. Through Rotary International, several thousand of those were dispatched to Haiti shortly after the earthquake.
The other grant went to Partners With Purpose, a Centre Wellington based charity that has been working to help the impoverished people of Haiti for 15 years. Wayne Groves did a presentation on Haiti from reports and pictures from his wife, Julie, who was in Haiti at the time.
They work hard and travel to Haiti on their own dime to help the people directly through several programs such as literacy. They feel that if people become educated they can better care for themselves and their families.
Rotarians agreed, and the Centre Wellington club has helped with literacy programs in Mexico and Haiti and closer to home Rotarians have been supplying grade 3 students with dictionaries.
