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ROTARY FOUNDATION SEMINAR

ROTARY FOUNDATION SEMINAR. District 7790 Maine, November 17- 2018. Areas of Focus. Peace & Conflict Prevention/Resolution. Disease Prevention & Treatment. Water & Sanitation. Maternal & Child Health. Basic Education & Literacy. Economic & Community Development.

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ROTARY FOUNDATION SEMINAR

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  1. ROTARY FOUNDATION SEMINAR District 7790 Maine, November 17- 2018

  2. Areas of Focus • Peace & Conflict Prevention/Resolution. • Disease Prevention & Treatment. • Water & Sanitation. • Maternal & Child Health. • Basic Education & Literacy. • Economic & Community Development.

  3. Areas of FocusPolicy Statements • With respect to the areas of focus policy statements, TRF notes that: • The goals are to increase efficiency in grant processing and to ensure quality of funded projects • Each policy statement is intended to represent eligible and ineligible activities • Eligible activities reflect those that Rotary clubs and districts have most often implemented • Project planning is a host club/ district‐driven process • All grant requests must comply with the policy statements related to each area of focus

  4. AREAS OF FOCUS PEACE PROMOTING

  5. AREAS OF FOCUS Providing Scholarships Empowering Youth Improving Human Rights Training Leaders in the Field $16.6 million invested to date with 379 grants

  6. AREAS OF FOCUS 20,000 people are maimed or killed by land mines each year 51 million people are currently displaced by armed conflict or persecution.. 300,000 child soldiers (boys and girls under age 18) are believed to be involved in conflicts around the world.

  7. Providing Scholarships Empowering Youth Improving Human Rights Training Leaders in the Field $16.6 million invested to date with 379 grants AREAS OF FOCUS PREVENTING DISEASE & PROVIDING TREATMENTS

  8. KEY ACTIVITIES Improving local capacity Communicable disease prevention Non communicable disease treatment $126.2 million invested to date with 1828 grants AREAS OF FOCUS

  9. AREAS OF FOCUS 1 billion people suffer from neglected tropical diseases such as dengue fever and leprosy each year. 100 million people are pushed into poverty each year by medical costs. 1 in 6 people worldwide cannot pay for health care.

  10. AREAS OF FOCUS IMPROVING WATER, SANITATION & HYGIENE

  11. KEY ACTIVITIES Tackling sanitation and hygiene issues Improving water quality and access to water Providing Scholarships $97.2 million invested to date with 1343 grants AREAS OF FOCUS

  12. AREAS OF FOCUS 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation. 1,400 children die each day from diseases caused by lack of sanitation and unsafe water. 6 hours per day is what women in some rural parts of Africa spend collecting water from a remote source. 748 million people don’t have clean drinking water

  13. AREAS OF FOCUS ENHANCING MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH

  14. KEY ACTIVITIES Improving access to services Education and provision of equipment Lifesaving interventions Improving pregnancy outcomes For women and newborns $31.7 million invested to date with 418 grants AREAS OF FOCUS

  15. AREAS OF FOCUS 6.3 million children under the age of five die each year from diseases, malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. 80% of maternal deaths could be prevented with access to reproductive health services and trained health care workers.

  16. AREAS OF FOCUS SUPPORTING BASIC EDUCATION & LITERACY

  17. AREAS OF FOCUS KEY ACTIVITIES Training teachers to improve educationaloutcomes Supportingstudent learning and enrollment $47.5 million invested to date with 775 grants

  18. AREAS OF FOCUS 57 million children worldwide are not in school 781 million people over the age of 15 — 60 percent of them women —are illiterate. 1.7 million additional teachers are needed worldwide to meet the goal of universal primary education.

  19. AREAS OF FOCUS TRANSFORMING LOCAL ECONOMIES

  20. AREAS OF FOCUS KEY ACTIVITIES Building capacity to spur economic growth Developing opportunities for work Providing academic Scholarships $50.2 million invested to date with 851 grants

  21. AREAS OF FOCUS 190 million people are funding their business endeavors through microfinance. 1.4 billion people — nearly half of them employed — live on less than $1.25 a day.

  22. Areas of Focus • Peace & Conflict Prevention/Resolution. • Disease Prevention & Treatment. • Water & Sanitation. • Maternal & Child Health. • Basic Education & Literacy. • Economic & Community Development.

  23. AREAS OF FOCUS Questions ? Rotary.0rg

  24. AREAS OF FOCUS thanks

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