Annual Rotary Golf Day presented by Buco St Francis

ROTARY CLUB OF ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY UPLIFTMENT PROJECTS

Rotary Club of St Francis Areas of Focus:

•   Education and Youth Development
•   Health
•   Environment
•   Skills Training and Job Creation
•   Food Security
  

  Rotary Club of St Francis Projects:

  Donations from the public, Foundations and Corporates as well as the proceeds of the Club’s fundraising events like the Annual Rotary Golf Day support the following projects:

•   Disney Land Creche – substantial improvement to this small school’s infrastructure have been facilitated by the Club. This includes replacing the roof, improving the toilet facilities, construction of a secure boundary fence and gate, provision of water storage tanks. In addition, the school has been supplied with new cooking and catering facilities, educational equipment and restored playground equipment.
•   Talhado Children’s Haven Montessori Pre-Primary School – This school has been assisted with ongoing maintenance to the school buildings including roof replacement, upgraded cooking and catering equipment, computers and Montessori teaching aids, playground equipment and upgraded ablution facilities. The school is in need of funds to provide ongoing training to the Montessori teachers who are all Sea Vista residents and to build an extra classroom. The school’s fundraisers for teachers’ salaries and running costs are supported by the Club wherever possible.
•   Sea Vista Primary School – The club contributes to the educational fund in collaboration with the St Francis United Church. This fund is utilized to pay supplementary teachers to ease the stretched teacher/student ratio. The Club also donates ad hoc funding for sporting activities, prizes and transport.
•   Woodridge College Interact Club – youth development is a key Rotary International focus area. Interact clubs are high school level junior Rotary clubs. Woodridge College has an active membership and the club is supported by Rotary Club of St Francis.
•   Rotary Exchange Program – To date our Club has sent two St Francis teenagers on the 12 month youth exchange program. One to the USA and one to Italy. In addition we sent one young lady from Sea Vista to Argentina on a 6 week cultural exchange. The Club has so far hosted one exchange student from the USA on the 12 month program and one from Argentina on the 6 week cultural exchange.
•   Sea Vista Library – This club was instrumental in facilitating the construction of the Sea Vista library through the Kouga Wind Farm as well as the provision of books in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa, computer equipment and Wi-Fi.

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•   Sibanye Ladies Group – The Club supports all the fundraising activities and projects undertaken by the Sibanye Ladies in Sea Vista. These include skills development (reading in English, sewing, beadwork, yoga and swimming/lifesaving classes). In addition, the club contributes funds for the Ladies’ project to supply teenage boys and girls of Sea Vista with basic hygiene products such as soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant and sani-pads.
•   St Francis Galaxy Football Club and other sports – wherever possible the club facilitates donation of used sports equipment and clothing for under privileged children’s sports development.
•   Sea Vista Clinic – The Club assists with providing much needed medical equipment, and mobility aids. Furnishings, filing cupboards and shelving for the pharmacy have also been funded. The Club is in the process of planning the expansion of the clinic to provide for improved facilities for patients with TB and other additional services.
•   Hospice – the Club runs regular fundraising events to raise running costs for Hospice in the Kouga region. Equipment and consumables such as adult nappies have also been funded.
•   Ons Tuiste Retirement Home – Many of the residents of this old age home in Humansdorp rely on SASSA pensions alone. The Club is looking at ways in which to assist with the running of this important facility for the elderly.
•   Wheelchair and mobility aids program – The Club facilitates donations of new wheelchairs and mobility aids through the Cheshire Homes and Dischem Foundation.
•   Food security – The club manages funding donated for the food relief program initiated at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown crisis. During this time food packages were packed and distributed by the Club in collaboration with the St Francis United Church and the Disaster Volunteer Group. Ongoing funding is allocated to the four recognized soup kitchens in Sea Vista and food parcels distribution at other times of crisis such as shack fire disasters.
•   Kromme Enviro Trust – wherever possible the Club supports this organisation’s efforts to protect our environment and to raise funding. Coastal clean-ups are a regular feature on the Rotary calendar.
•   F.O.S.T.E.R (Friends of St Francis Nature Areas) – the Club has committed to assist with funding FOSTER projects to protect and preserve our important natural areas and nature reserves.
•   St Francis Tourism – the Club works in collaboration with this organization to promote greater St Francis as a tourism destination. Tourism provides much needed employment for a great many people in the region.

  All the institutions have attempted to obtain funding from various sources, with little or no success. Some institutions receive limited, but insufficient financial support from Government. All the other institutions are reliant on support from donors or the private sector.

• The Rotary Club of St. Francis has supported these institutions over the years and is well placed to provide a conduit for the management of funds raised and the identified

If you require any further information please contact our Club Secretary (contact@rotarystfrancisbay.org) or visit our website www.rotarystfrancisbay.org.