Seeing the needs in Ghana related to Rotary six areas of focus
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Taking Roads Less Traveled to Serve Ghana
What is our Track Record?• Raised over $1.2 Million• 264,000 People Have Safe Water• 90 New Boreholes in recent efforts• Eradicating Guinea worm disease• Impacting Buruli Ulcer disease• Transforming lives in Ghana• Teams from US, Canada & Switzerland
Hawaii
Partner with 80+ Clubs in 16 States, Switzerland, & 2 Canadian Provinces!
Massachusetts
CaliforniaNew
Hampshire
TexasNew York
West Virginia
New Jersey
Vermont Virginia Florida
North Carolina
Tennessee
Wyoming
Needs Identified on Last Trip• Providing clean water & sanitation• Promoting peace• Upgrading hospitals and clinics• Growing local economies• Improving education & literacy• Fighting disease
Strengthening & starting Rotary Clubs
Providing Clean Water & Sanitation
• Drill new boreholes and wells• Provide water & latrines at schools• Increase sustainability with Water
& Sanitation Committee training• Target places with water shortages
& high levels of disease• Upgrade and repair small town
mechanized water systems
Drill New Boreholes and Wells• Drill 20 new boreholes
at cost of $6,000• Build bathrooms &
latrines at schools, hospitals and in towns
Mechanized City Water Systems
• Upgrade 5 towns at Cost of $3,000+/town• Near Rotary Clubs of
Tamale & Techiman• Need is urgent• Change power source
Promoting Peace
• Rotary is setting the example• Three Rotary Clubs have Muslim
and Christian members • Leadership in our clubs include
both Christians and Muslims• Different tribes are represented• Dug 13 wells in civil unrest area in
Bawku in northeastern Ghana
Provide Beds & Medical Equipment• Upgrade Techiman
Hospital and several smaller clinics • Need dialysis machine• $40-50,000 effort
Growing Local Economies• Grow economy & jobs• Need training for shea
butter, basket weaving, soap making, trade certifications, and health related training.
Improve Education & Literacy• Provide water, books,
latrines, library, desks• Need is all over Ghana• Empower schools
Fighting Disease in Africa• Locating wells in South Sudan
Guinea worm endemic villages• Prototyping care for neglected
tropical disease called Buruli Ulcer• Raise awareness that we need to
“Add Water” to end Polio in Nigeria• Raising funds to drill wells in Nigeria
where Polio is a risk to children
Why Not End Disease in World?
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
2,733
1,692
1,028
484113
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Number of People with Guinea WormBy Year
Ghana South Sudan
Guinea Worm Disease
Guinea Worm Cases By Year
Country 2011 2012 2013 2014
South Sudan 1,030 521 1133
Chad 10 10 14 3
Mali 12 7 11 0
Ethiopia 8 4 70
Sudan 0 0 3 0
Ghana 0 0 0 0
Eastern Equatoria is target state in South Sudan. Year-to-date is through March 2014.
Fewer Cases in Remote Places
Ghana in ‘07
South Sudan October ‘12
Buruli Ulcer is Neglected Tropical Disease in Africa
Clean Water & Vocational Trainingin Global Grants 25176 & 25922
• Impacted 93,781 people over last two years• Drilled 47 boreholes and wells• Found and cared for Buruli Ulcer patients• Trained 56 villages about Buruli Ulcer• Selected & trained 484 community health
care worker volunteers• Trained 176 doctors and nurses• Reduced Buruli Ulcer Disease in Ghana
Lives Changed with Grants in Asunafo South District
• Provided new & repaired wells in endemic communities to cover whole district with clean water
• Prototyped care for Buruli Ulcer• Year People with Buruli
2011 74
2012 45
2013 5
We Are Changing Lives of People with Buruli Ulcer
Before Treatment
After Treatment
Is Your Dream Big Enough?
• Our dream was to drill one well in Africa and raise funds from six clubs
• Today, Ghana is being transformed by• Connecting pieces of the puzzle together • Strategic humanitarian projects that build on
past grants to achieve larger goals • Action is causing new clubs to form• People are noticing that Rotarians who join
together can make a big difference!
Your Rotary Club gave water to Amanfe, Ghana!
Chatham RotaryFound Here!
Strengthening Existing Clubs & Starting New Rotary Clubs• Action recruits young professionals• Techiman and Sunyani East Rotary
Clubs were chartered in May 2013• Most members of Sunyani East RC
are young, less than 30 years old!• Global grants strengthen clubs in Ghana
• Need new clubs in northwestern and southwestern Ghana
Travel to Amazing Places!
Once in a Lifetime Journey!
Thanks, Journey is Worth It!