Northbrook Rotary believes that Rotary International is just that - Rotary International

As one of the four avenues of service, the Rotary Club of Northbrook has a long and strong history of both initiating projects in partnership with Rotary Clubs around the world as well as joining with other US Rotary clubs to jointly support international service activities.

For Rotary year 2007-2008, here is how we spent our budget:

Here is how we funded our 2 matching grant projects:

Pending projects include:

• WHIA-RAD - $1000 for Digital X-Ray Project (in conjunction with other clubs in District 6440)
• St. Martha & Mary Orphanage in Jalapa, Guatemala - major project for the year involving matching grants to construct and equip a chicken coop, vegetable garden, and sewing workshop so that the orphanage can be more self-supporting.

Previous projects include

• Misioneros Del Camino - Sumpango Guatemala - equipment for new neurological clinic.
• Fundaniñas Girls Shelter - Guatemala City Guatemala - computers for educational use.
• Africa Malaria Mosquito Netting Project
• Humanitarian Relief for the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya
• Helping purchase land and equipping a women's school in Thailand by sending sewing machines so the women could learn a self-supporting trade.
• Donating pre-owned computers to a school in Argentina.
• Donating pre-owned computers to an elementary school in Bosnia.
• Jointly donating hundreds of mattresses to orphanages in Moldava.
• Supported projects in Peru to help small businesses obtain tools of production.
• Supported LAMP in providing antibiotics and antifungal medicines for their work in Guatemala.
• Organized and financed a program to provide used textbooks and reading materials for the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Africa.
• Purchasing a Shelter Box ( http://www.shelterbox.org/ ) as part of an international program to provide on-the-spot humanitarian relief in response to disasters.

The scope of Northbrook Rotary's international service includes Ambassadorial and Peace Scholarships as well as Youth Exchange programs.

• Northbrook Rotary sponsored Matthew Bright, a Rotary Peace Fellow at the University of Brisbane.
• Northbrook Rotary sponsored Jay Koh, an Ambassadorial Scholar at Oxford University.

Northbrook Rotary International Service - it's all about marshalling our resources (people, time, and financial) to make a difference globally - and by helping others we also help ourselves.