Sustainable Projects: Lessons Learned on a Rotary World Tour

 

 

We had a wonderful talk by Mathematics teacher Ivan Alba (from La Mesa Sunrise Rotary) about how to sustain projects on its own once the initial funding is done. He talked about Clear Goals, Inter-learning, Motivation and Monitoring. He took his family on a 1 year world tour and executed several Rotary projects along the way as they traveled through several countries. They received the 2016 Rotary Pathways to Peace Award for their efforts during what they called their "Rotary Year of Service".

 

You can read his blogs at Alba World Tour.

 

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We also had Mr. Zubair Bakubye from East Riverside Rotary drop by to update everyone on his project at Bugiri, Uganda. Our club has already done two projects in the past with Mothers of Peace for $38k which involved providing training to mothers who were raped by the early worriers of Idi Emin brutal regime. We also did another Global Grant for $35k providing overhead water tanks, bore wells, pipelines to Bugiri Hospital which lacked drinking water for many years. Both are sustained on-going projects and his brother runs the Mothers of Peace Training Center in Bugiri now with assistance from the Bugiri city coffers. He is a very dedicated and hard working person wanting to help his homeland. The Host Rotary in Uganda was Jinja Rotary in district 9211.

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